The Climate Change and African Political Stability Program’s work involving students is featured on the University of Texas’ 2012 Retrospective. The retrospective highlights the University’s biggest accomplishments, including the many opportunities for gaining hands-on experience. In the CCAPS Program’s three years, 82 university students have participated in CCAPS research, along with 14 additional students from partner universities. Students have conducted fieldwork in Africa and collaborated with faculty members to produce 43 publications and reports based on their work. The students have worked as research assistants, interns, database coders and field researchers.
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Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Joshua Busby has been named the recipient of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving the World Order for scholarship presented in his 2022 book, "States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security." His work was based, in part, on his studies within Strauss Center programs on Complex Emergencies and Political Instability in Asia...
On April 21, Ashley Moran, director of the Strauss Center's State Fragility Initiative, spoke at an event briefing NATO on civil society working group recommendations on expanding NATO’s work to address the security risks from climate and environmental stress. The April 21 event was organized by NATO’s Policy Planning Unit and Emerging Security Challenges Division. It included remarks by several...
Professor Joshua Busby, Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School and Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar, recently co-authored a piece for the World Economic Forum titled “The US needs partners to tackle the security risks of climate change.” The article begins by presenting three main arguments: that climate change imposes increasingly hazardous risks to “stability and security”; that the Biden...