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Dr. Geoffrey Dabelko









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DR. GEOFFREY DABELKO
Vice Chair IHDP Scientific Committee


Director
Environmental Change and Security Program
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C., 20004-3027, USA
Tel: +1 202 691-4178
Fax: +1 202 691-4184
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AREA(S) OF INTEREST
Dr. Dabelko’s expertise lies in the fields of international environmental politics, international security, global health, and development. He facilitates dialogue among policymakers, practitioners, and scholars grappling with the complex connections that link environment, health, population, conflict, and security. His recent research focuses on environmental pathways to confidence building and peacemaking, with a special emphasis on management of fresh water resources.



PAST POSITIONS
  • Lecturer, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service;

  • Visiting researcher at the International Peace and Research Institute, Oslo;
    Poject associate, Council on Foreign Relations;


  • Editorial assistant, Foreign Policy.

  • Former Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Washington Term Member Advisory Council.



PRESENT POSITIONS
  • Adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies;

  • Member of the United Nations Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding;

  • Co-editor of Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg (3rd ed., 2004) and Environmental Peacemaking (2002);

  • Editor of the annual Environmental Change and Security Program Report;

  • Advisory board member of Screenscope's "Journey to Planet Earth" PBS documentary initiative;

  • Board member of the Wilton Park USA Foundation;

  • Contributing editor of Environment;

  • Editorial board member of Global Environmental Change;

  • Principal investigator of the “Navigating Peace: Forging New Water Partnerships” Initiative;

  • Member of the Board, Wilton Park USA Foundation.



RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2009. Avoid Hyperbole, Oversimplificiation when Climate and Security Meet Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (August 24).
Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2009. Planning for Climate Change: The Security Community’s Precautionary Principle Climatic Change Vol 96 (1): 13.
Kent Hughes Butts and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2009. One Way to Boost US-China Military Cooperation Christian Science Monitor (April 21).
Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2008. An Uncommon Peace: Environment, Development, and the Global Security Agenda. Environment Vol. 50 (3): 32-45.
Karin Bencala and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. 2008. Water Wars: Obscuring Opportunities. Journal of International Affairs Vol. 61 (2): 21-33.

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