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  • Crossing Borders and Defying Policing, Abuses of Thailand’s Fishing Industry Challenge International System

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    August 18, 2015  //  By Linnea Bennett
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    Somewhere off the coast of Thailand, “ghost ships” bump and crash along the choppy waves scrapping the sea floor with nets that spare nothing. Pulling up these illegal hauls in shifts that sometimes last 20 hours are thousands of migrant fishermen, many of whom have been forced into indentured servitude or kidnapped. Far from shore on unregistered boats, they have little hope of escape and face daily abuse and squalid conditions. More recently, some captains have turned to trafficking Rohingya fleeing persecution in Myanmar, pressing some into service, extorting others, and taking sex slaves.

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  • Roger-Mark De Souza: Focus on Urban Dynamics, Water Scarcity in Latin America and the Caribbean

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    Friday Podcasts  //  July 31, 2015  //  By Linnea Bennett

    desouza-smallFor the past four decades, urbanization in Latin American and Caribbean countries has been on the rise. Today it’s one of the most urbanized regions of the world with 79 percent of the population living in towns and cities. By 2050, 9 out of 10 residents are expected to live in cities. This density and movement of people is critical to understanding the region’s water and climate change issues, says ECSP’s Roger Mark De Souza in this week’s podcast.

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  • Turning the Climate-Security Problem on Its Head: Geoff Dabelko Talks G7 ‘Climate for Peace’ Report

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    On the Beat  //  July 29, 2015  //  By Linnea Bennett

    Dabelko_smallConversations around climate change often take place at the “30,000-foot level,” said Ohio University Professor and ECSP Senior Advisor Geoff Dabelko in a recent radio interview with WOUB Public Media, based out of Athens, Ohio. Emission reductions, carbon concentrations, global temperatures. But a certain amount of change is already baked into the system and impacts are playing at in different ways around the world already.

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  • Bixby Report Explains Cross-Cutting Effect of Family Planning on Food Security, Climate Change

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    July 16, 2015  //  By Linnea Bennett
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    “With current neglect of family planning, the UN’s recent projection of a 2100 world population of up to 12.3 billion is a possibility,” says a report from the University of California, San Francisco’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Increased voluntary family planning efforts are needed, the authors contend, to meet existing demand for contraceptives, stabilize the threat of global food insecurity, and reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.

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  • The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy (Book Launch)

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    From the Wilson Center  //  July 14, 2015  //  By Linnea Bennett
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    When Valerie Hudson evaluates the strength of a nation, whether food security, wealth, peacefulness, or quality of governance, she finds one important thread that underlies it all. “One of the most important factors in the determination of these things is in fact the situation, and security, and status of women,” said Hudson at the Wilson Center on June 24. [Video Below]

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  • Women’s Equality Not Just a Moral, But National Security Issue, Say Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl

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    Friday Podcasts  //  July 10, 2015  //  By Linnea Bennett
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    “Compare those societies that respect women and those who don’t,” says Texas A&M Professor Valerie Hudson, quoting former USAID Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg, in this week’s podcast. “Who’s trafficking in weapons and drugs? Who’s harboring terrorists and starting pandemics? Whose problems require U.S. troops on the ground? There’s a one to one correspondence.”

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  • De Souza: In Era of Man, Demography Needs to be Part of Environmental Security Discussion

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    Eye On  //  June 25, 2015  //  By Linnea Bennett

    A new article from the Wilson Center’s own Roger-Mark De Souza explores how population trends can bolster community resilience in the face of climate change and other security threats. De Souza argues that demographic trends such as age structure help determine how well a population is able to respond to and bounce back from shocks, especially environmental ones like drought and famine.

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  • NASA Data Reveals Most Major Aquifers Depleting Faster Than They Recharge

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    Eye On  //  June 23, 2015  //  By Linnea Bennett
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    Researchers have been warning about future water scarcity for decades, but new data reveals a majority of the world’s largest aquifers are already running out of water.

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