Conflict and Cooperation: Making the Case for Environmental Pathways to...
Opportunities for environmental peacemaking in the Great Lakes Region have not yet been isolated, even though there are many examples of cooperation at the national, regional, subregional, and local...
View ArticleBeginning the Demographic Transition: Very Young and Youthful Age Structures
From 1970-2000, "only 13 percent of countries with a very young age structure had fully democratic governments, compared with 83 percent of countries with a mature age structure," points out Elizabeth...
View ArticleIssue 22: Coffee and Community: Combining Agribusiness and Health in Rwanda
Rwanda, "the land of a thousand hills," is also the land of 10 million people, making it the most densely populated country in Africa. In issue 22 of ESCP's FOCUS series, author Irene Kitzantides...
View ArticleIssue 23: To Live With the Sea: Reproductive Health Care and Marine...
On the remote southwestern coast of Madagascar, home to the semi-nomadic seafaring Vezo ethnic group, most girls have their first child before the age of 18, and families with 10 children or more are...
View ArticleAfter the Disaster: Rebuilding Communities
This report draws from the dialogue and seminar papers shared at an April 2011 meeting co-hosted by the Wilson Center and the Fetzer Institute to explore how best to respond to disasters. Highlighting...
View ArticleAfghanistan, Against the Odds: A Demographic Surprise
Afghanistan’s first-ever nationally representative survey of demographic and health issues finds that Afghan women have an average of five children each, lower than most experts had anticipated. Their...
View ArticleRussia's Global Health Engagement
“The story of Russia’s engagement in global health—and in international development assistance more broadly—begins many decades ago,” remarked Judyth Twigg, Professor and Chair, Program in Political...
View ArticleDelivering Solutions to Improve Maternal Health and Increase Access to Family...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 800 women die daily from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Almost all of these deaths occur in developing...
View ArticleClimate Change Adaptation and Peacebuilding in Africa: An Adaptation...
On Thursday, November 1 and Friday November 2, 2012, USAID and the U.S. Department of State, in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Institute for Security Studies...
View ArticleIssue 19: The Integration Imperative: How to Improve Development Programs by...
Since the early 1990s, a few small-scale community programs in developing countries have been using integrated approaches that address population-health-environment (PHE) links in ecologically fragile...
View ArticleThe Shape of Things To Come: Why Age Structure Matters to a Safer, More...
A recent study by Population Action International (PAI), The Shape of Things To Come: Why Age Structure Matters to a Safer, More Equitable World, provides a timely illustration of population trends and...
View ArticleHealth, Population, and Fragility: Insights From a Meeting Series
The Environmental Change and Security Program recently completed an expert meeting series on the relationship between health and population issues and the evolving U.S. Agency for International...
View ArticleMigration as the Demographic Wild Card in Civil Conflict: Mauritius and Fiji
Analyzing demographic trends on the small-island nations of Mauritius and Fiji, Christian Leuprecht argues that "the impact of migration on conflict is a man-made problem; the way migration is managed...
View ArticleIssue 17: Sharing the Forest: Protecting Gorillas and Helping Families in Uganda
On the outskirts of remote Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, endangered mountain gorillas forage in local gardens that run along the border of the park. Rapid population growth...
View ArticlePreface and Introduction
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Navigating Peace Initiative, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, brings together experts and practitioners to reframe stale debates and generate fresh thinking...
View ArticleClosing the Gaps: Improving the Provision of Water and Sanitation
Water Stories: Expanding Opportunities in Small-Scale Water and Sanitation Projects outlines a range of approaches that are helping close gaps in water and sanitation coverage. Rather than focus on...
View ArticleClimate Change, Demography, Environmental Degradation, and Armed Conflict
Using geo-referenced data, Clionadh Raleigh and Henrik Urdal find that population growth and density are related to increased civil conflict, but that demographic and environmental factors are...
View ArticleIssue 17: Sharing the Forest: Protecting Gorillas and Helping Families in Uganda
On the outskirts of remote Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, endangered mountain gorillas forage in local gardens that run along the border of the park. Rapid population growth...
View ArticlePreface and Introduction
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Navigating Peace Initiative, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, brings together experts and practitioners to reframe stale debates and generate fresh thinking...
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