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Katharine Diamond

Katharine Diamond is a program assistant for the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program.

Prior to working at the Wilson Center, Katharine interned with ECSP while finishing her Master's degree in Security Policy Studies from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. While at GWU, she specialized in transnational security and weapons of mass destruction.

She manages ECSP’s social media accounts and is a regular contributor to New Security Beat, writing on natural resource management, gender, reproductive health, security, and other issues.

Twitter: @NewSecurityBeat

Email: Katharine.Diamond@WilsonCenter.org

  • The Case for Better Aid to Pakistan: Climate, Health, Demographic Challenges Demand New Approach

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    March 2, 2015  //  By Kate Diamond
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    In 2009, the U.S. Congress passed a five-year, $7.5 billion aid package for a country it had all but abandoned just 10 years earlier. Indeed, if one word can summarize the U.S. relationship with Pakistan, “volatile” might be it. Since the September 11 attacks, the U.S. has appropriated nearly $61 billion in aid to Pakistan – more than twice what it received since independence in 1947.

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  • Seven Billion People, One Planet: Roger-Mark De Souza on Empowering Young People

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    From the Wilson Center  //  July 10, 2014  //  By Kate Diamond

    “Population is critical to thinking about sustainability and human wellbeing, and how we live and subsist on the planet,” says ECSP’s Roger-Mark De Souza on this World Population Day.

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  • Special Issue of ‘Reproductive Health Matters’ Highlights Integrated Development, Resilience Efforts

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    Reading Radar  //  July 1, 2014  //  By Kate Diamond

    rhm43The May edition of Reproductive Health Matters is a special edition on sustainable development and reproductive health and rights. Our own Roger-Mark De Souza writes that in the quest to build resilience, development practitioners can learn from integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) programs.

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  • Adil Najam: Pakistan’s Security Problems Distract From Climate Vulnerabilities

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    Eye On  //  June 18, 2014  //  By Kate Diamond

    When Pakistan makes the news, more often than not it’s for one of two things: violent extremism or drone strikes. Adil Najam, a Pakistan expert and a lead author for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says those headlines distract from a far more pressing security concern for the country: climate change.

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  • CNN Profiles the Work of Conservation Through Public Health in Uganda

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    On the Beat  //  June 9, 2014  //  By Kate Diamond
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    Reporting on long-term, complex human-environment interactions can be daunting. As the saying goes, “if it bleeds, it leads,” and slow, sometimes-distant changes rarely make headlines. Yet, earlier this year CNN International’s African Voices program took a stab at it, diving into the world of integrated development in a three-part profile of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), a Ugandan NGO that is working to preserve one of Central Africa’s most important biodiversity hotspots while strengthening the health and wellbeing of nearby communities.

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  • New Film Explains Blue Ventures’ Integrated Approach to Development and Conservation in Madagascar

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    Eye On  //  April 1, 2014  //  By Kate Diamond

    Blue Ventures has become a leader in the population, health, and environment (PHE) community through its work with the remote, semi-nomadic Vezo people living along Madagascar’s southwestern coast. In a new short documentary, The Freedom to Choose: Empowering Communities to Live With the Sea, Blue Ventures describes how their approach has helped the Vezo respond to the combined challenges of resource scarcity, poor reproductive health, and unsustainable livelihoods.

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  • Vulnerability to Climate Change Institutional as Well as Environmental, Says Janani Vivekananda

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    Eye On  //  March 27, 2014  //  By Kate Diamond

    Vulnerability to climate change is in part determined by exposure to specific changes – proximity to low lying coastal areas or areas of likely drought – but state capacity also plays a major role. And interventions targeting either must reflect the complex links that bind the two, says International Alert’s Janani Vivekananda in an interview with adelphi’s Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation platform.

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  • Climate Change and National Security in an Age of Austerity: The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review

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    March 7, 2014  //  By Kate Diamond
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    Earlier this week, the Department of Defense released its first Quadrennial Defense Review since fiscal cliffs, shutdowns, and spending cuts hit the federal government. Not surprisingly, “austerity” shows up in almost every chapter of the report. What shows up even more? Climate change. For the second QDR in a row, the Pentagon has called out climate change as a “significant challenge for the United States and the world at large.”

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