In today’s episode of The Arc, ECSP’s Angus Soderberg and Claire Doyle interview Wilson Center Fellow Dr. Renata Giannini about her work with women environmental defenders in the Amazon and t...
In today’s episode of “The Arc,” ECSP’s Angus Soderberg and Claire Doyle interview Nisha Singh and Kavin Mirteekhan from Women for Women International. We dive into the organization’s r...
This article is adapted from “Population Trends and the Future of US Competitiveness” Demographic issues intersect with a number of policy priorities on the congressional agenda, including th...
Sub-Saharan Africa’s sluggish economic growth and brittle political structures are clear challenges for the region. And two major development theories—one strictly political, the other demogr...
The annual multilateral Conference of the Parties (COP) has become one of the most important meetings on the global agenda. So the fact that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will host COP28 startin...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2023/11/gaza-yemen-syria-human-rights-oil-elephants-cop28-room/
The summer of 2023 featured some of the hottest days ever recorded. Feminists should be alarmed. Climate change may not seem like a feminist issue on its face. A warming planet poses a cross-c...
A window into what we are reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security ProgramDRC Mining Project Displaces a Local CommunityKolwezi is the “cobalt capital of the world.”...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2023/10/ecsp-weekly-watch-october-23-27/
The UN Environment Programme has described Africa as the most vulnerable region in the world to climate change. Despite only being responsible for 3% of global emissions, the continent has been b...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2023/10/africas-climate-summit-victim-leader/
On today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP Director Lauren Risi and Distinguished Fellow Dr. Blair Ruble talk with Clare Loveday and Dr. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato about their collaborativ...
African informal migration to Europe raises human insecurity issues for states in both Africa and Europe. This challenge was underscored almost a decade ago by the arrival of about a million migr...
Over the past several months, members of the foreign affairs and development communities have heaped a great deal of attention—and interpretation—on the pace of demographic change in Nigeria....
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2023/07/nigerias-demographic-moment-wishful-thinking/
News about global climate impacts that elevate mortality, wreak weather havoc, and create massive displacement is inescapable. And those are just the stories that make the headlines. Droughts in ...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2023/06/rethinking-population-climate-health-focusing-solutions/
The idea of climate change as a “threat multiplier” has been gaining steam since it was first proposed roughly 15 years ago. This framing acknowledges that climate can interact with existing�...
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 2023 State of the World Population (SWOP) Report offers a chance to reflect on what’s at stake in debates over global population. “The question is n...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2023/05/8-billion-counting-rethinking-rhetoric-population-choice/
When a military-led or military-influenced coup d’état occur in a foreign country, does evidence from demographic research merit consideration in the U.S. foreign policy response? It’s a que...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2023/02/demography-weigh-u-s-response-coups-detat/