Geoff Dabelko - Global Environmental Change and Human Security Conference Day 2

The second day of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security conference in Oslo illustrated the evolution of the environment, conflict, and security debate. The key discussion came from a panel entitled Environmental Change, Conflicts, and Vulnerability in War-Torn Societies that featured Ken Conca of the University of Maryland; David Jensen of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP); and Arve Ofstad of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

In this short video, Geoff Dabelko, director of the Wilson Centers Environmental Change and Security Program and chair of the panel, notes that in the last 10 years, researchers and practitioners have moved from a nearly exclusive focus on the connections between environmental scarcity or abundance and conflict to a wider set of questions about environments roles all along the conflict continuum—including prevention, active conflict, conflict termination, and post-conflict peacebuilding and reconstruction. This wider agenda includes questions of cooperation and peacebuilding around environmental interdependence.

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Education

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• GECHS
• human security
• conflict
• Woodrow Wilson Center
• ECSP
• Geoff Dabelko