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Navigating Complexity: Climate, Migration, and Conflict in a Changing World

Navigating Complexity: Climate, Migration, and Conflict in a Changing World

newsecuritybeat.org — Record levels of displacement and accelerating climate change have prompted many to wonder if the world is headed toward a more violent future. The nexus of climate change, migration, and conflict is posing fundamental challenges to societies. But not always in the ways you might think. In a new report prepared for the U.S. Agency of International Development, Lauren Herzer Risi and I present a small guide to this controversial and consequential nexus of global trends.
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Paradox of Progress: National Intelligence Council Releases Global Trends Report

Paradox of Progress: National Intelligence Council Releases Global Trends Report

newsecuritybeat.org — Do you experience information overload? Feel like there’s always another crisis to worry about? Sense a kind of chaos? Well, you may be a citizen of the early 21st century.
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Joyce Banda on Reaching Girls Before Age 10, Balancing Tradition With Change, and More

Joyce Banda on Reaching Girls Before Age 10, Balancing Tradition With Change, and More

newsecuritybeat.org — If you really want to fight the patriarchy, if you want to make a difference in girls’ lives, you have to reach them when they are young, says Joyce Banda.
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Planetary Security Conference Convenes Amidst "Unsettling New Normal"

Planetary Security Conference Convenes Amidst "Unsettling New Normal"

newsecuritybeat.org — Environmental security? Climate security? How about planetary security. Last week at the venerable Peace Palace in The Hague, nearly 300 experts from around the world met for the somewhat dramatically named Planetary Security Conference, a new initiative aimed at bringing together people working on all things related to the environment, climate change, and their security implications.
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Climate Change, the U.S. Military, and "the Intersection of Politics and Events"

Climate Change, the U.S. Military, and "the Intersection of Politics and Events"

newsecuritybeat.org — There may not have been a single question about climate change in the 2016 presidential debates, but it remains a hotly contested, partisan issue for many in the United States. That climate change is happening and requires a response is not up for debate within the upper echelons of the U.S. military, however.
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White House Announces Steps to Address Climate and National Security Alongside New Intelligence A...

White House Announces Steps to Address Climate and National Security Alongside New Intelligence A...

newsecuritybeat.org — Yesterday afternoon President Obama announced a new Presidential Memorandum on climate change and national security. The policy directs 20 federal agencies to consider the national security implications of climate change and establish a working group that will develop a Climate Change and National Security Action Plan for the federal government.
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Maxine Burkett on Why "Climate Refugees" Is Incorrect - and Why It Matters

Maxine Burkett on Why "Climate Refugees" Is Incorrect - and Why It Matters

newsecuritybeat.org — More and more we are hearing stories about " climate refugees." U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell used the term to describe the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, a community which this year became the first to receive federal funding to relocate in its entirety from their sinking island home on the Louisiana coast.
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The Future of Political Demography and Its Impact on Policy

The Future of Political Demography and Its Impact on Policy

newsecuritybeat.org — "Political demography is a discipline whose time has come," said Rob Odell of the National Intelligence Council at a gathering of demographers and researchers in New Orleans. "You can sense this inherent dissatisfaction" with a lot of analytical and predictive tools in international relations, he said, and "political demography provides policymakers a way to think about long-term trends."
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Pentagon Releases New Climate Roadmap, Plans for Constrained Training, Challenged Infrastructure,...

Pentagon Releases New Climate Roadmap, Plans for Constrained Training, Challenged Infrastructure,...

newsecuritybeat.org — A series of executive orders signed by President Obama since his first year in office requires all federal agencies to begin planning for climate change and produce an updated adaptation plan by May of this year. The Pentagon is a little late, but today they released their second-ever climate roadmap.
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What Can Iraq's Fight Over the Mosul Dam Tell Us About Water Security?

What Can Iraq's Fight Over the Mosul Dam Tell Us About Water Security?

newsecuritybeat.org — The fight for control over "the most dangerous dam in the world" is raging. Since its capture by Islamic State (IS) militants on August 7 and subsequent attempts by Iraqi government and Kurdish forces to take it back, Iraq's Mosul Dam has been one of the central components of the government's surprising and rapid collapse in the country's northern and western provinces. In fact, one might see the capture of the Mosul Dam as the moment IS ascended from a dangerous insurgent group to an existential threat to Iraq as a state.
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Investing in the Leaders of Tomorrow: World Population Day 2014 Youth Infographic

Investing in the Leaders of Tomorrow: World Population Day 2014 Youth Infographic

newsecuritybeat.org — World Population Day began in 1987 after public imagination was sparked by the idea that there could be 5 billion people on Earth. Today, we're well past 7 billion and according to the latest UN projections, headed north of 9 billion by mid-century. But more spectacular than the total number is the composition of world population today. Four out of 10 people around the world are under 25 years old - more than 3 billion people. Together they account for the largest generation in history.
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Alexandros Washburn on How Smart City Technologies Can Help Coastal Cities Prepare for Climate Ch...

Alexandros Washburn on How Smart City Technologies Can Help Coastal Cities Prepare for Climate Ch...

newsecuritybeat.org — As Hurricane Sandy bore down on New York in October 2012, the city's chief urban designer was at home in Brooklyn deciding whether or not to evacuate. In the end, Alexandros Washburn decided to stay. "As a designer, you want to experience what it is you're designing for," Washburn says in this week's podcast. He wanted to see the rate and patterns of flooding firsthand - the storm surge "came on faster than you were expecting, and it made you panic," he says.
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Dawn of the Smart City? Perspectives From New York, Ahmedabad, São Paulo, and Beijing

Dawn of the Smart City? Perspectives From New York, Ahmedabad, São Paulo, and Beijing

newsecuritybeat.org — Rapid growth and environmental change are creating new challenges for urban areas around the world. By 2050, as many as 7 out of 10 people on Earth will live in cities, with the vast majority of growth occurring in today's developing countries.
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A New Dimension to Geopolitics: Geoff Dabelko on the Latest IPCC Report

A New Dimension to Geopolitics: Geoff Dabelko on the Latest IPCC Report

newsecuritybeat.org — "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an attempt to get an international group of scientists together to assess what we know about climate change," says Geoff Dabelko in an interview with the Wilson Center's Context program. "That is not a quick process." The IPCC's fifth assessment report since 1990 is being released by its member governments in parts this year, with the latest coming out last night. Dabelko, a senior advisor to ECSP and director of environmental studies at Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, is one of several authors of a new chapter.
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To Save the Environment, Move Beyond Finger Pointing, Says Andrew Revkin

To Save the Environment, Move Beyond Finger Pointing, Says Andrew Revkin

newsecuritybeat.org — "The idea that there's an information deficit - that if you fill it, it'll change the world - is fantasy," says Andrew Revkin in an interview at the Wilson Center. "I've been writing about issues like global warming since the 1980s, which makes me one of the greybeards...and I had this expectation, and it's one that many scientists have, that if you just put out the information effectively, people will respond and change their behavior," the author of The New York Times' Dot Earth blog and fellow at Pace University says.
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Geoff Dabelko: Face Down the "Four Tyrannies" to Improve Cross-Sectoral Collaboration

Geoff Dabelko: Face Down the "Four Tyrannies" to Improve Cross-Sectoral Collaboration

newsecuritybeat.org — What does Himalayan ice melt have to do with food security in Cambodia? A lot, when they both significantly affect the flow of the Mekong River. But when it comes to long-term planning across topical and regional lines, development agencies aren't always as collaborative as they could be - both externally and internally. Recalling a multi-day USAID workshop on the future of development at the Wilson Center, Ohio University's Geoff Dabelko said there are four major barriers to this kind of connected thinking: "The tyranny of the inbox, the tyranny of immediate results, the tyranny of the single sector, and the tyranny of the uni-dimensional measurement of success."
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