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  • Water and Security Hotspots to Watch in 2016 [Infographic]

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    Eye On  //  February 15, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook
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    The ongoing violence in Syria exhibits the potential for water problems – a historic drought, in this case – to exacerbate existing social and political problems and contribute to humanitarian crises. In a recently released infographic, Circle of Blue combined data from the European Commission Joint Research Center’s Global Conflict Risk Index and the World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas to identify 10 hotspots around the world where water “could play a role in developing or exacerbating humanitarian crises” in 2016.

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  • Climate Change, Disasters, and Security: Unconventional Approaches to Building Stability

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    From the Wilson Center  //  February 8, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook
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    It is “not sufficient to look at history for lessons on how we should prepare for and prevent future security risks in a climate change world,” said Swathi Veeravalli, research scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Geospatial Research Laboratory, at the Wilson Center on January 14. Climate change and the extreme weather events it brings pose an “unprecedented” threat to human security. [Video Below]

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  • India’s Thirst for Palm Oil, New South-South Trade Patterns Cast Doubt on Sustainability Initiatives

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 3, 2016  //  By Philip Schleifer
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    Patterns of trade and consumption in the global food system are shifting. In the past, most trade in agricultural commodities occurred between developed and developing countries. But, in recent years, the volume of South-to-South trade has increased significantly. Today, some of the most problematic crops in terms of their effect on the environment, such as soy and palm oil, are predominantly traded amongst developing and fast-rising countries.

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  • Can Myanmar Avoid Conflict Pitfalls in its Hydro Blitz?

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 27, 2016  //  By Alec Forss
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    Myanmar is undergoing multiple transitions, from military rule to democracy, decades of civil war to peace, and from a command economy to a market-based one. No less of an important challenge amidst this backdrop of change and hope is addressing the country’s energy poverty.

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  • The U.S. Intelligence Community’s Assessment on Food Security, Famine and Migration in the Sahel

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    Reading Radar  //  January 26, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook

    DNIThis fall, the National Intelligence Council released an intelligence community assessment of the extent to which factors such as climate change, severe weather, conflict, resource scarcity, disease, poor governance, and environmental degradation will impact peoples’ purchasing power and food availability over the next decade. They found “the overall risk of food insecurity in many countries of strategic importance to the United States will increase.”

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  • Empower, Educate, and Employ Youth to Realize the Demographic Dividend

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    From the Wilson Center  //  January 8, 2016  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In the course of development, most countries undergo a demographic transition. Health conditions improve and mortality rates decline, causing rapid population growth and a relatively high proportion of young people. Over time, if fertility declines, as it has in most places, growth slows and there is a period when the proportion of very young “dependents” shrinks in comparison to the working age population. This moment represents an opportunity for a “demographic dividend” – an economic boom as a comparatively large cohort of the total population moves through their most economically productive years. [Video Below]

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  • After Paris, What’s the Status of “Environmental Refugees?”

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    Wilson on COP-21  //  January 7, 2016  //  By James F. Hollifield & Idean Salehyan
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    “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.

    One of the hidden costs of climate change is the displacement of millions of people in some of the poorest regions of the globe. The existing international refugee regime is ill-suited to cope with those seeking refuge from environmental disasters. Countries must get serious about developing coordinated plans to address the issue, lest they be caught by surprise when another humanitarian crisis hits.

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  • Modi’s Grand Plan to Divert Himalayan Rivers Faces Obstacles

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 22, 2015  //  By Ashok Swain
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    One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first priorities after winning an overwhelming victory last year on a platform of development and growth is to fast-track a decades-old plan to link India’s rivers.

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