Demography Events
Flash Points and Tipping Points: Security Implications of Global Population Changes, 2005-2025
February 27, 2007 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Jack Goldstone and Eric Kaufmann discuss the potential security implications of rapid urbanization, global epidemics, shifts in economic power, declining populations in many developed countries, and increased immigration.
The Population Institute's 27th Annual Global Media Awards
December 05, 2006 // 9:00am — 4:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
The ECSP Report was recently named the winner of the Population Institute's 27th Annual Global Media Award for Best Population Journal. The 11th edition of the ECSP Report received the award for promoting dialogue on the connections among environment, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.
The Security Demographic: Assessing the Evidence
June 13, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Drawing on three decades of data, Richard Cincotta and Jack Goldstone explore the relationship between demography and conflict—critical to the USAID reexamination of the Fragile/Rebuilding States strategy.
Civil Strife in the Developing World: New Insights on Connections Among Environment, Demography, and Conflict
May 02, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Colin Kahl and Marvin Ott examine how demographic and environmental factors can create turmoil in many countries and regions, and also create threats to national security.
Gaining Ground: Lessons from the Preliminary Findings of Madagascar's New Demographic & Health Survey
February 08, 2005 // 11:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
After decades of improvement, the health of women and children across sub-Saharan Africa is declining. In Madagascar, however, it is on the upswing: the new 2003-2004 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) reveals great improvements in fertility as well as maternal and child health.
Islam, Gender, and Reproductive Health: Part 1 of 6
July 07, 2004 // 12:00am
Environmental Change and Security Program
This meeting was the first in a series of six that examines the intersection of reproductive health and gender issues in the Islamic world. This meeting provides an overview of general demographics in the region, and the perspectives of Islam on family planning and contraceptive use.
The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict After the Cold War
December 16, 2003 // 11:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Do trends in human population affect a country's chances of civil war? According to a new report from Population Action International, countries with a high number of young adults were more likely to suffer a civil conflict during the 1990s.
Diaspora Communities: Influencing U.S. Foreign Policy
June 23, 2003 // 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity
Thomas Ambrosio, Assistant Professor of Political Science, North Dakota State University;Yossi Shain, Professor of Comparative Government and Diaspora Politics, Georgetown University
Productive Cities and Metropolitan Economic Strategy: The Case of Johannesburg and Akron, Ohio
March 10, 2002 // 11:00pm
Africa Program