Environmental Diplomacy And Security Inaugural Conference October 21, 2011

October 21 - 23, 2011
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

Featured speakers, Matt Dunne (Google Corporation), Ambassador Richard Benedick (President National Council on Science and the Environment), Colonel (Retd) Tom O'Donovan (Commander for US Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan) and Deb Markowitz (Vermont Secretary of Natural Resources)

Environmental issues are often framed as a source of conflict in terms of resource scarcity. Yet they tend to be relegated as “low politics,” in the larger scheme of international relations. This conference aims to consider ways by which environmental issues can be raised to the “high politics of war and peace” to ensure ecological, economic and social sustainability.

The conference is the inaugural event of a new research and practice
center on the emerging discipline of environmental diplomacy and
security at the University of Vermont. The conference is broadly
arranged around 5 short symposia, each of which is targeted towards
developing a product for research and educational purposes. These
“products” can range from edited volumes to new educational web sites to
video documentaries.

Topics have been chosen based on the relevance of these efforts to
mandate of the institute’s three thematic areas: a) Borderlands b)
Pragmatic Peace and c) Resource Values.

Details on speakers and Registration, including an educational cruise on Lake Champlain with Vermont Secretary of Natural Resources, can be found at the following link:

http://www.uvm.edu/ieds/node/522

The conference will provide an intimate venue for focused discussion for academics, policy-makers and security practitioners, and will result in a program of action on the emerging field of environmental diplomacy
and security (EDS).
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