Events
Is Universal Access to Family Planning a Realistic Goal for Sub-Saharan Africa?
March 30, 2011 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Michael Mbizvo, director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the WHO, discusses ways to ensure universal access to family planning services for sub-Saharan Africa.To talk about this difficult question and present research and programmatic evidence for sub-Saharan Africa, Mbizvo was joined by panelists; Fred Makumbi, Oladosu Ojengbede, and Frank Taulo.
Madagascar, Past and Future: Lessons From Population, Health, and Environment Programs
March 28, 2011 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Lisa Gaylord, director of program development at the Wildlife Conservation Society; Matthew Erdman, program coordinator for the Population-Health-Environment Program at Blue Ventures Conservation; and Kristen Patterson, senior program officer at The Nature Conservancy, discussed the challenges and outcomes of past and future integrated population, health, and environment (PHE) programs in Madagascar.
Climate Adaptation, Development, and Peacebuilding in Fragile States: Finding the Triple-Bottom Line
March 28, 2011 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
The nexus between development, peace, and climate stability were discussed by Alexander Carius, Executive Director, Adelphi Research; Dan Smith, Secretary General, International Alert; and Neil Levine, Director of the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation at U.S. Agency for International Development. In this context, the climate issue was viewed as a risk or conflict "multiplier," with the aforementioned interlinked problems requiring interlinked solutions.
Tunisia Predicted: Demography and the Probability of Liberal Democracy in the Greater Middle East
March 24, 2011 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
In 2008, demographer Richard Cincotta predicted that between 2010 and 2020 the states along the northern rim of Africa – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt – would each reach a demographically measurable point where the presence of at least one liberal democracy (and perhaps two), among the five, would not only be possible, but probable. Recent months have brought possible first steps to validate that prediction.
What "Lost" Cultures Can Contribute to Management of Our Planet
March 23, 2011 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
A discussion on what "Lost" cultures can contribute to management of our planet.
Environmental Film Festival Screening: The Fence
March 23, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
The documentary The Fence, directed by Rory Kennedy, "shows a strong case against a single-minded approach to securing the border," said Mexico Institute Program Associate Robert Donnelly at a Wilson Center screening on March 23. Part of the DC Environmental Film Festival, the screening was co-sponsored by the Environmental Change and Security Program and the Mexico Institute.
Book Launch: The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security
March 14, 2011 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba, the Mellon Environmental Fellow with the Department of International Studies at Rhodes College. Sciubba, along with Deputy Under Secretary Kathleen Hicks of the U.S. Department of Defense, discussed the national security implications of demography and its important role in understanding and managing conflicts around the world.
Carrying Capacity: Should We Be Aiming to Survive or Flourish?
February 22, 2011 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
"In the eyes of many governments, population has, as we all know, been a rather uncomfortable topic for a number of years," said Nobel Laureate Sir John Sulston, FRS, chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation at the University of Manchester and chair of the Royal Society's "People and the Planet" working group. Sulston and his co-panelists, Martha Campbell, president of Venture Strategies for Health and Development, and Professor Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue of Cornell University, encouraged active debate on a range of population dynamics and their connections to economic, environmental, and political futures.
Deforestation, Population, and Development in a Warming World: A Roundtable on Latin America
February 15, 2011 // 11:30am — 1:30pm
Panelists Liza Grandia, assistant professor of international development and social change at Clark University, and Jason Bremner, director of population, health, and environment at the Population Reference Bureau, argued that meeting the needs of Latin America's rural communities is therefore key to conserving Latin America's forests.
A Dialogue on Managing the Planet
January 19, 2011 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
"Collectively, the impact of humanity on the way the planet works is enormous and headed in disturbing directions," said George Mason University professor Thomas Lovejoy in January at the first in a monthly series, "Managing the Planet," led jointly by George Mason University and the Woodrow Wilson Center.
