Geoffrey Dabelko
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Geoffrey Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP), a nonpartisan policy forum on environment, population, and security issues at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. During his time there, he has helped facilitate diaogue among policymakers, practitioners, and scholars grappling with the complex connections that link environment, health, population, conflict, and security. His recent research focuses on environmental pathways to confidence building and peacemaking, with a special emphasis on management of fresh water resources.
Geoff is principal investigator for ECSP's "Navigating Peace: Forging New Water Partnerships" initiative and co-principal investigator for the "Environment, Development and Sustainable Peace" initiative, an international effort to bridge the gap between Northern and Southern Perspectives. Geoff worked previously at Foreign Policy and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has taught as an adjunct at the Monterey Institute for International Studies and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Geoff is co-editor, with Ken Conca of the University of Maryland, of Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg (3rd ed., 2004) and Environmental Peacemaking (2002). He is also editor of the annual Environmental Change and Security Program Report]]]]. Geoff was an editor of Understanding Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation, published in 2004 by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is a member of UNEP’s Experts Group for the Environment and Conflict Initiative (Division of Early Warning and Assessment), co-vice chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and an advisory board member of Screenscope's "Journey to Planet Earth" PBS documentary initiative. Geoff holds a doctorate in government and politics from the University of Maryland and a bachelor's degree in political science from Duke University.
