Abegail Anderson
Abegail Anderson is the Program Coordinator for the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs focused on Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development from George Washington University’s Elliott School. She earned her B.A. in Political Science with minors in Media studies and Italian studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and Syracuse University.
Her past experiences range from working at the Office of U.S. Senator Tim Kaine to the United Nations Global Compact where she implemented a UNFSS Dialogue on seaweed’s emerging role in food systems, development, and climate mitigation. Her research interests focus on the nexus between environmental change, food security, international development, and sustainable agriculture and aquaculture development, with a particular regional interest on Southeast Asia.
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Top 10 Posts of September and October 2022
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In September and October’s top post, Susie Jolly captures how sex education is deeply enmeshed in the power dynamics and institutional norms established by lingering colonialist influences. “We should be outraged, but maybe not surprised at sexuality education’s colonialist connections, writes Jolly. “Sexuality and power are integrally connected at both individual and systems levels.” The author lays out three strategies to address the impact of sex education’s colonialist past and decolonize sex education: resources and reparations, changing sexuality education content, and changing who decides the content.
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How AGWA is Tracking and Shaping Water’s Crucial Role in Climate Adaptation
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As the last decade has brought about a dramatic shift in approaches to addressing climate change, water is increasingly at the forefront of the conversations around adaptation and resilience. In part, this is because more countries now experience the damaging effects of climate change through water-related events including rising sea levels, intensification of natural disasters, droughts, and flooding.
In this week’s New Security Broadcast, John Matthews, Executive Director of the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA), observes that the heightened attention to water has placed his group at the center of discussions at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
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Top 5 Posts for June 2022
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From climate change to COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, the world is a landscape of increasing instability. Book-ending the Top 5 posts of June are two articles that explore different aspects of these converging risks. In the top post for June, Steven Gale and Mat Burrows write that globally, younger generations are becoming increasingly disengaged and discontent with their democratic governments, civil society, and institutions. Youth disillusionment is not a result of ignorance to current affairs, but rather a lack of faith in democratic institutions to address today’s most pressing global issues. Tackling youth disillusionment, suggest Gale and Burrows, begins with examining youth engagement trends and placing it at the top of the agenda.
