GECHS

The plenary discussion was chaired by Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Director of the Environmental Change and Security Program, a nonpartisan research-policy forum on environment, population, health, and security issues founded in 1994 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He is also an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

The panelists included:

Ken Conca, Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, where he also directs the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda. His research activities focus on global environmental governance, the politics of water, and environment, conflict and peacebuilding. His most recent book is Governing Water (MIT Press, 2006);

David Jensen, Head of the Policy and Planning Team of the UN Environment Programme’s Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, Geneva, Switzerland. He focuses on how natural resources can be managed to contribute to peace consolidation, conflict prevention and transboundary cooperation in post-conflict countries. He is currently working on Sierra Leone, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo; and

Arve Ofstad, Policy Director for State- and Peace-building and Development Economics in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). He has previously been Senior Researcher and Research Director (Development Economics) at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway and was the United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Sri Lanka in 1995-98. He has worked on development and aid policies in fragile and crisis-affected countries in Africa and Asia.

We have also made available a big version of the plenary discussion (720×422) for people with higher bandwidth. To view the embedded video, you will need to have Quicktime installed on your PC or Mac. If you are a Linux user, please open the following URL in VLC: rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no:80/sv/gechs/plenary-dag2-stor.mp4