Environmental Change and Security Program
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Project Title | Environmental Change and Security Program
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Geographic Scope | Global
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Lead Organization(s) | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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Timeframe | 1994- present
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Project website(s) | ECSP http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1413&fuseaction=topics.home
Woodrow Wilson Center http://wilsoncenter.org/ |
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Description
Population growth. Water scarcity. Degraded ecosystems. Forced migration. Resource depletion. Pandemic disease. Since 1994, the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) has explored the connections among these major challenges and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Through publications, meetings, and events, ECSP promotes dialogue about the environmental, health, and population dynamics that affect both developing and developed nations. Learn more about ECSP.
ECSP focuses on four core topics:
- Further readings
Navigating Peace Initiative, supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, seeks to reframe stale debates and generate fresh thinking on critical water problems. Bringing together experts and practitioners, the initiative focuses on three unique areas:
1. Expanding opportunities for small-scale water and sanitation projects;
2. Analyzing water's potential to spur both conflict and cooperation; and
3. Building dialogue and cooperation between the United States and China using lessons from water conflict resolution.
Expected Outcomes
Achievements: Results and Impact
Lessons for Replication
References
See also
External Resources
Link to full text of the Navigating Peace Initiative's report Water Stories: Expanding Opportunities in Small-Scale Water and Sanitation Projects
Navigating Peace Publications
- Issue 1, Water Can Be a Pathway to Peace, Not War, Aron T. Wolf, Annika Kramer, Alexander Carius, and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, July 2006
- Issue 3, The New Face of Water Conflict, Ken Conta, November 2006
Link to full list of publications on water
