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Roger-Mark De Souza

Roger-Mark De Souza is the director of population, environmental security, and resilience for the Wilson Center.

He leads programs on climate change resilience, reproductive and maternal health, environmental security, and livelihoods, including the Global Sustainability and Resilience Program, Environmental Change and Security Program, and Maternal Health Initiative.

Before joining the Center in 2013, De Souza served as vice president of research and director of the climate program at Population Action International, director of foundation and corporate relations at the Sierra Club, and directed the Population, Health, and Environment Program at the Population Reference Bureau.

De Souza holds graduate degrees in international relations and development policy from George Washington University and the University of the West Indies.

Email: Roger-Mark.DeSouza@WilsonCenter.org

  • An Empty Table? Food-Climate-Conflict Connections in Paris

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    Wilson on COP-21  //  January 15, 2016  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza & Meaghan Parker
    Mali

    “Wilson Perspectives: The Paris Climate Agreement” is a series of short essays exploring the key issues that emerged during the 21st Conference of Parties that originally appeared on WilsonCenter.org.

    Security, terrorism, conflict, and peace: you won’t find any of these words in the landmark agreement released on December 12 at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP-21). It’s never been front-and-center on the agenda at previous Conference of Parties, from Copenhagen to Cancun. But in Paris, a city reeling from terrorist attacks, the specter of climate-related conflict haunted delegates and the potential of a climate-resilient peace inspired grassroots protests.

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  • Climate Compensation: How Loss and Damage Fared in the Paris Agreement

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    Wilson on COP-21  //  January 12, 2016  //  By Saleemul Huq & Roger-Mark De Souza
    tonle sap

    “Wilson Perspectives: The Paris Climate Agreement” is a series of short essays exploring the key issues that emerged during the 21st Conference of Parties that originally appeared on WilsonCenter.org.

    The agreement coming out of the COP-21 negotiations gave breakthrough recognition to the concept of “loss and damage,” sorting through thorny discussions and politically charged negotiating positions. These positions revolved around liability and compensation, which developing countries called for but developed countries were unwilling to have included in the agreement.

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  • Islands in Paris: New Climate Deal Gives Some Recognition to Humanity’s Truth Bearers

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    December 16, 2015  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
    Male-Maldives

    The new climate deal coming out of Paris commits governments to hold the rise in average global temperatures to “well below” two degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels. An important dimension of this agreement calls for subsequent work on limiting the increase to 1.5 degrees. This is an important win for islands and other low-lying countries, and for humanity.

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  • A Little Bit of Sugar Helps the Pill Go Down: Resilience, Peace, and Family Planning

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    October 26, 2015  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
    Jharana Kumari Tharu - female community health volunteer in Bina

    Adapted from a commentary on “The Pill Is Mightier Than the Sword,” which appeared in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management.

    A recent article by Malcolm Potts, Aafreen Mahmood, and Alisha Graves of the University of California Berkeley’s OASIS Initiative notes that family planning has an important role to play in building peace by increasing women’s empowerment and their agency. “The pill is mightier than the sword,” as they put it.

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  • A Call for More Intention, Consistency, and Foresight in an Interconnected World

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    April 22, 2015  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
    light trails

    Global trends, from climate change and population dynamics to food, water, and energy scarcity, threaten to complicate global security, diplomatic efforts, and development policy. In the United States we are increasingly responding to these trends, rather than anticipating and planning for them.

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  • Book Review: ‘Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources’

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    August 18, 2014  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
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    The original version of this article appeared on Americas Quarterly.

    Since the early 1990s, the rising price of crude oil and other key natural resources – and the resulting drive by governments and private companies to extract those resources – has led to sharp conflicts in Latin America. At the core of these disputes is the clash between national economic interest and the rights of indigenous people inhabiting the land where most natural resources are located.

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  • Africa’s Trifecta: Food Security, Resilience, and Demographics at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit

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    August 5, 2014  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
    bananas

    “You can’t build a peaceful world on an empty stomach,” Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday at a high-level working session on resilience and food security, quoting Norman Borlaug, the father of last century’s “Green Revolution.”

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  • Earth Day 2014: Women at the Center of Sustainable Cities

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    April 22, 2014  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
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    When I first came on board the Wilson Center last Earth Day, I wrote that I wanted to forge new paths and identify ways that reproductive health, environmental conservation, and women’s empowerment affect our lives today and in the future.

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