Geoff Dabelko - Foreign Policy Challenges in the 112th Congress: Development and Security

"We all must check our stereotypes of the other communities at the door...we're not talking about hugging trees and hugging pandas," said Geoff Dabelko, director of the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program, in a panel discussion on Foreign Policy Challenges in the 112th Congress as part of the Wilson Center on the Hill series. Dabelko argued for a more multi-dimensional and integrated approach to addressing environmental issues.

"To tackle these problems, these connections between, say, natural resources, development, and security, it really does require that we have an integrated approach to our analysis [and] an integrated approach to our responses," Dabelko said.

Read the full post on The New Security Beat: http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2011/02/watch-geoff-dabelko-and-john-sewell-on...

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