From Report 13 - Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba on Population in Defense Policy Planning

"Demography will have a greater role in defense planning in the future," says Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba in this short video preview of her article, Population in Defense Policy Planning, now appearing in the 13th issue of Environmental Change and Security Program Report. "Robert Gates has put a lot of emphasis on development as a key to peace, and Africa Command may be the area that brings together issues of demography, the environment, and development, and sends those observations back up the higher levels at DOD," she observes. Sciubba, Mellon Environmental Fellow in the Department of International Studies at Rhodes College, and six other demographic experts analyze the links connecting population and environmental dynamics to conflict in a set of commentaries on "New Directions in Demographic Security.

For more on population in defense policy planning, read Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba's article in ECSP Report 13 at
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ECSPReport13

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