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  • Digital Water Diplomacy: Keeping Water Dialogues Afloat

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 19, 2021  //  By Elizabeth A. Yaari & Martina Klimes
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    In 2020, the world experienced the convergence of the global water and climate change crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and economic recession. The compounded emergencies hit even well-prepared countries hard. For the more than 50 percent of the world’s population that relies on transboundary freshwater sources for their drinking water, the renewed urgency for access to water for sanitation raised additional challenges. Effectively responding to the crises demanded an elevated degree of communication and coordination between neighboring states precisely when coordination and collaboration processes encountered new barriers to effective transboundary engagement. As neighboring states instituted travel restrictions, water dialogues had to adapt through digital water diplomacy processes.

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  • Climate Change and Terrorism

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 14, 2021  //  By Jeremiah Asaka
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    This article is adapted from an article previously published by the journal, Perspectives on Terrorism.

    Climate change is a defining global issue of our time. In a recent address to the UN Security Council, John Kerry, the U.S. presidential envoy for climate, remarked that climate change is “the challenge of all of our generations.” An important dimension of the challenge presented by climate change concerns its implications for state and human security.

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  • The Climate Crisis and Southeast Asian Geopolitics

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 13, 2021  //  By Abraham Denmark
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    This article originally appeared on Asia Dispatches. 

    Southeast Asia is at the center of the two major geopolitical challenges of the 21st century: climate change and the rise of China. As decision-makers across the region grow increasingly concerned about climate change and environmental degradation, as well as the implications of intensifying competition between China and the United States, Washington has an opportunity to strengthen its engagement with Southeast Asia and advance its broader geopolitical objectives.

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  • A Land Like No Other: Afghanistan’s Post-Conflict Ecotourism Potential

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 12, 2021  //  By Elizabeth B. Hessami
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    Stunning cobalt-blue lakes with natural travertine dams in Band-e-Amir, the pristine, soaring Pamir Mountains, through which some of the world’s last snow leopards prowl—far from the simplistic, violent, and drab images preferred by the media, Afghanistan is a beautiful and multifaceted nation. Lonely Planet once described Afghanistan as a “vastly appealing country.” Having married into an Afghan family many years ago, I can attest that the culture is also extremely hospitable. Welcoming tourists to visit their beautiful nation is a logical extension of the Afghan culture. 

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  • Creating a New Normal with a New Global Public Health System

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 7, 2021  //  By Frederick M. Burkle
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     “Ask a big enough question, and you need more than one discipline to answer it,” said modern dance legend Liz Lerman.

    As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that there would be no going back to normal. They knew a failure to make timely and accurate public health decisions for a pandemic would prove to be the “difference between life and death.” How correct they were.

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  • No Peace Without Water, No Water Without Peace, and Neither Without Women’s Empowerment

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 5, 2021  //  By Marisa O. Ensor
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    Water deprivation is increasingly recognized as a political and security problem. Tensions resulting from the growing imbalance between global water demand and supply can escalate into conflict. Efforts to solve water-related conflicts and promote water cooperation for peace, termed “water diplomacy” or “hydro-diplomacy,” continue to be male-dominated. Several recent events and related publications are contributing to bridging this persistent gender gap.

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  • Arctic Security Redefined: Human Security Through an Arctic Urban Lens

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    Guest Contributor  //  Navigating the Poles  //  March 30, 2021  //  By Nadezhda Filimonova
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    “We are so few, we have no one to lose,” said Christina Henriksen, the president of Saami Council, during an interview on Coronavirus in the Arctic. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the vulnerability of Arctic residents and the longstanding challenges related to the lack of sanitization, social infrastructure, and health service capacities. The impacts of the pandemic are coupled with the potential negative effects of climate change, including a 3-5 °C temperature increase projected over the Arctic Ocean by 2050. 

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  • Avoiding Crisis in Jordan’s Tenuous Water Future

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 29, 2021  //  By Steven M. Gorelick, Jim Yoon & Christian Klassert
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    Jordan is facing a deepening, multi-faceted freshwater crisis. Climate change and population growth are exacerbating its extremely limited natural water availability and dependence on transboundary rivers and groundwater. Water-poor and functionally landlocked, Jordan serves as an archetype of a water-stressed nation.

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