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Amanda King

Amanda King is the Program Assistant for the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Maternal Health Initiative. Her research interests focus on the nexus between climate, food security, global security, gender, and international development.

She previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, Africa, where she worked closely with local women’s groups on sustainable agricultural practices. Amanda earned her M.S. in Environmental Policy from Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy and B.A. in Environmental Studies from Illinois Wesleyan University.

  • Safe from the Start: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Times of Conflict and Crises

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  December 10, 2019  //  By Sarah Barnes & Amanda King
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    December 10 marks both Human Rights Day and the last day of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, an international campaign to build awareness and galvanize action in the fight against violence against women and girls.

    “As a leader in providing global humanitarian aid, the United States must be a leader in protecting all aid recipients,” said Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6) at a recent event on Capitol Hill about gender-based violence in humanitarian settings. A violation against human rights, gender-based violence (GBV) is deeply rooted in gender inequality. It’s a global phenomenon that involves sexual, physical, and/or psychological violence, including child marriage, female genital mutilation, and other harmful practices.

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  • The Top 10 Posts of September and October 2019

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    What You Are Reading  //  November 22, 2019  //  By Amanda King
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    In September and October, the Maternal Health Initiative grabbed the No. 1 spot as Nazra Amin took a look into one of the world’s largest brothels in the village of Daulatdia, Bangladesh. She examined the legality of sex work in Bangladesh, maternal mortality, and barriers to health services among sex workers.

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  • How Are We Failing American Women? Alarming Trends of U.S. Maternal Mortality

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    Dot-Mom  //  August 7, 2019  //  By Amanda King
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    Every day 830 women around the globe die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes. Almost all of these deaths occur in the developing world, but over the past sixty years this global problem has made waves at home. While worldwide maternal mortality rates are decreasing, the rates are rising in three countries: Afghanistan, Sudan, and the United States. Between 2000 and 2014, the number of women who died in the United States from pregnancy-related causes while pregnant or within 42 days postpartum increased by almost 27 percent, from 18.8 per 100,000 deaths in 2000 to 23.8 in 2014.

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  • The Top 5 Posts of June 2019

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    What You Are Reading  //  July 9, 2019  //  By Amanda King
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    Two of June’s top posts related to conflict and the well-being of a country’s population. In our most-read post this past month, Matt Luizza investigates herder-farmer conflict in Africa’s Sudano-Sahel and urban elites’ increasing militarization of transhumance, the practice of moving livestock seasonally to access available pastures and water. In our third most popular post this month, Wim Zwijnenburg discusses the importance of protecting civilians by protecting the environment during armed conflicts.

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  • Race, Bias, and Equity in Prenatal Care: No Pregnant Woman is the Same

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  June 26, 2019  //  By Amanda King
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    It’s disturbing to see the data going in the wrong direction and it means we have to go beyond what we’ve been doing, said Terri D. Wright, Vice President of Programs and Community at the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation at a recent event on equitable prenatal care in the United States hosted by The Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation and the American Medical Association at Duke University in DC. “We can’t do the same things the same way and expect a different outcome,” she said. “We’ve got to do something different.”

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  • Healthy Women, Healthy Economies: Gender Parity in the Workplace

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  May 31, 2019  //  By Amanda King & Sarah Barnes

    _MG_7353 Thumbnail“When you get to the power of voice, you have to be brave and you have to be that person that will speak up and say this isn’t right, but I want to be a part of the solution,” said Eileen Martin, the Global Director of Inclusion at EMD Serono, the U.S. division’s biopharmaceutical arm, of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. She spoke at a recent Wilson Center event on the intersections between women’s health, leadership, and economic prosperity. This edition of Friday Podcasts is led by Sarah B. Barnes, Project Director of the Maternal Health Initiative at the Wilson Center. 

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  • Water as a Tool for Resilience in Times of Crisis

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    From the Wilson Center  //  May 30, 2019  //  By Amanda King
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    Water serves as a tool for resilience only when access to it is consistent and the system for making it consistent is in place, said David De Armey, Director of International Partnerships for Water for Good, an international NGO. He spoke at a recent Wilson Center event, “Water as a Tool for Resilience in Times of Crisis,” the second event in a three-part series, Water Security for a Resilient World, sponsored by the Wilson Center, Winrock International, the Sustainable Water Partnership, and USAID. Water for Good monitors 80 percent of wells across seven provinces in Central African Republic (CAR), he said. By keeping the water infrastructure working, the nonprofit creates a stable environment within an unstable country. “Thus,” he said, “we see reliability and services as a tool for resilience.”

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  • The Top 5 Posts of April 2019

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    What You Are Reading  //  May 13, 2019  //  By Amanda King
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    In April’s top post, Sarah Glaser and Cullen Hendrix find that a mostly domestic armed conflict involving Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army increased competition over Nile perch among fisherfolk, which created tensions between Kenya and Uganda.

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