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  • We’re At Peak Storytelling – And That’s a Good Thing

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 23, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples
    Michael Miller

    Everywhere you look these days, you find storytellers. I’ve found myself going to fewer concerts after work and more storytelling nights. Podcasts have sprung up dedicated to the craft of narrative. It’s a brand I hear friends use to define themselves: “I’m a storyteller.” If you’re under 30, it’s a natural and ubiquitous part of the milieu.

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  • Should the UN Security Council Take Up Climate Security Issues? Ken Conca on Institutional Change

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    Friday Podcasts  //  May 20, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    Conca-smallAs the dust settles on the newly minted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris climate agreement, countries have begun tackling operational questions aimed at limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius and ensuring peaceful, sustainable development.

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  • When Climate Change Exacerbates Conflict, Women Pay the Price, Says Mayesha Alam

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    Friday Podcasts  //  May 13, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    alam-small2Climate change has the potential to exacerbate conflict and political instability, and women will pay a steeper price than their male counterparts when it does, says Mayesha Alam, associate director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, in this week’s podcast.

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  • Mariam Claeson: Quality, Not Quantity of Care for Maternal and Child Health

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  April 29, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    Claeson-small“It’s not about counting how many times a mother interacts with antenatal services or comes to the facility,” says Dr. Mariam Claeson, the director of maternal newborn and child health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in this week’s podcast. “But it’s what happens in these encounters that matters.”

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  • Family Planning, Reproductive Health Crucial to Zika Response, Says Chloë Cooney

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  April 22, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    cooney-small“Zika has made a long-standing public health crisis impossible to ignore,” says Chloë Cooney, director of global advocacy at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in this week’s podcast.

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  • Joan Whelan on a New Strategy at the Office of Food for Peace: Address Conflict

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    Friday Podcasts  //  April 15, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    whelan-smallSince its inception more than 60 years ago, USAID’s Office of Food for Peace has provided critical food assistance to billions of people around the world. Yet, despite its name, the office lacked a strategy to address the effects of conflict on its work.

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  • Sharon Burke on How the U.S. Military Is Planning for Climate Change

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    Friday Podcasts  //  April 1, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    Burke-podcastClimate change is impacting the U.S. military in two major ways, explains Sharon Burke in this week’s podcast.

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  • Susan Martin: Migration a Climate Adaptation Strategy, But Displacement More Dangerous

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    Friday Podcasts  //  March 25, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    susan-martin-featureWhen it comes to environmental change, “policies and laws can have a very productive contribution toward positive adaptation, or they can subvert that and constrain options,” says Jon Unruh, associate professor of human geography and international development at McGill University, in this week’s podcast.

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