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Climate Variability and Conflict Risk in East Africa
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder used the Armed Conflict and Location Event Dataset (ACLED) to study the relationship between climate change and conflict in East Africa. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that the relationship between climate and conflict is country specific and that social,…
Robert Strauss Quoted in Recent News
The recent political season has brought back memories of Robert Strauss’s wonderful Texan quotes and role in American politics. An op-ed in the New York Times relates how Robert Strauss’s ability to work with James Baker III saved the presidential debate. In his speech at the democratic convention, Bill Clinton referred to one of Strauss’s…
Religious Freedom and National Security
Dr. William Inboden analyzes the relationship between religious intolerance and persecution and national security threats. Using historical context and contemporary examples, Dr. Inboden explains that a country that engages in religious persecution is more likely to be a security threat and “there is not a single nation in the world that both respects religious freedom…
Strauss Center to Partner with the Woodrow Wilson Center
The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law is pleased to announce that it has entered into a partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Nuclear Proliferation International History Project.
Climate Change and Africa’s Enduring Instability
The International Relations and Security Network’s piece on Climate Change and Africa’s Enduring Instability includes the climate vulnerability research of Joshua Busby and his team under the CCAPS program. The CCAPS vulnerability model uses indicators of climate hazard exposure, population density, household and community resilience, and governance and political violence to create geospatial representations of…
Study Highlights Lack of Climate-linked Aid to Malawi
Bernard Appiah’s piece, Study Highlights Lack of Climate-linked aid to Malawi, explores the Malawi Geocoded and Climate-Coded Aid Dataset and its potential to facilitate donor coordination. Only one to two percent of aid to Malawi is considered climate aid, according to Kate Weaver and the CCAPS adaptation aid team.
Study Highlights Lack of Climate-linked Aid to Malawi
Bernard Appiah’s piece, Study Highlights Lack of Climate-linked aid to Malawi, explores the Malawi Geocoded and Climate-Coded Aid Dataset and its potential to facilitate donor coordination. Only one to two percent of aid to Malawi is considered climate aid, according to Kate Weaver and the CCAPS adaptation aid team.
Climate Change and Conflict: Is There Any Correlation?
CCAPS research on the effect of rainfall variability on conflict is highlighted in the Conservation Blog’s article, Climate Change and Conflict: Is There Any Correlation? The article discusses the finding by CCAPS researchers Cullen Hendrix and Idean Salehyan that extreme deviations in rainfall are associated positively with political conflict.
The Strauss Center Announces its 2012-2013 Events Schedule
The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law is pleased to announce its schedule of events for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Center will host renowned scholars, practitioners, and journalists from around the world as part of its acclaimed International Security Speaker Series (ISSS), sponsor conferences on todays most pressing global challenges, and…
