Ratia Tekenet
Ratia Tekenet is the Staff intern for the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program. She will be supporting the award-winning blog, New Security Beat. She is a second-year graduate student studying Global Governance, Politics and Security at the School of International Service at American University.
Her research interests focus on the nexus between governance, environment, and conflict. Ratia was previously based at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, where her work focused on global environmental policy, strategic communications, and multilateral environmental engagement.
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Embracing Risk: Lessons Learned from Integrating Climate Adaptation and Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal
›The Hariyo Ban Program is one of the best examples of a sustainable development initiative that I’ve ever seen, said Nik Sekhran, Chief Conservation Officer of the World Wildlife Fund-US during a recent Wilson Center event on lessons learned from a decade of building resilience through participatory and inclusive natural resource management, climate adaptation, and biodiversity conservation in Nepal.
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Going Big on Climate: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the New Administration
›“With climate change, we can make no small plans—we need to go big,” said Lieutenant General Wallace Gregson (ret.), former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, during a recent event co-hosted by the Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Wilson Center on opportunities and challenges facing the new administration relating to the environment, peace, and conflict.
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Experts Spotlight Bottom-Up Approaches and the Impacts of Conflict on Infrastructure in the Next Wave of Environmental Peacebuilding
›“For 30 years, a community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have been working to untangle the complex relationships between environmental change and human and national security, and find entry points for policies and programs that build on these connections to create a more resilient and sustainable peace,” said Lauren Risi, Project Director of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change & Security Program at a recent event that featured contributors to a new special issue of International Affairs on environmental peacebuilding.