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Dr Geoffrey D. Dabelko
Associate Senior Fellow
Dr Geoffrey D. Dabelko
Dr Geoffrey D. Dabelko is an Associate Senior Fellow with SIPRI’s Environment of Peace Initiative. Geoffrey is a Professor and Associate Dean at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University, USA. From 1997-2012, he was director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program in Washington, DC, where he continues as a senior advisor. His research focuses on environment, climate, peacebuilding, and security.
Dr Dabelko worked previously at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Foreign Policy, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has taught as an adjunct at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. Dr Geoffrey Dabelko is co-editor of Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics (2019) and Environmental Peacemaking (2002). He was a lead author for the 5th assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II “Human Security” chapter and is currently an author on the 5th U.S. National Climate Assessment to be published in 2023.
Subject expertise
Environment and security, Climate change and security, Environmental peacebuilding
CONTACT Dr Geoffrey D. Dabelko
Education
PhD, Government and Politics, University of Maryland; AB, Political Science, Duke University
Citizenship
United States
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Language on Indigenous Peoples’ rights should stay in the new global biodiversity framework—for communities, nature and peace (Blog, )
- In a time of competing crises, environmental action matters more than ever (Essay, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2022)
- Navigating a Just and Peaceful Transition: Environment of Peace (Part 3) (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
External publications
- Dabelko G. “Environmental Security.” Contemporary Security Studies 5th ed. Alan Collins, Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 247-262 (2022)
- Dabelko G., Ide T., et al, “The Past and (F)utures of Environmental Peacebuilding.” International Affairs (1): 1-16 (2021)
- Dabelko G., Conca K., Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics. 6th ed. Routledge Press. (2019)
- Dabelko G., Smith D., et al, A New Climate for Peace: Taking Action on Climate and Fragility Risks. Berlin: adelphi, International Alert, Wilson Center, European Institute for Security Studies. (2015)
- Dabelko G., Adger W.N., et al, Human security [PDF]. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 755-791. (2014)
- Dabelko G., Gemenne F., et al, “Climate and Security: Evidence, Emerging Risks, and a New Agenda” Climatic Change 123 (1): 1-9. (2014)
- Dabelko G., "Avoid Hyperbole, Oversimplificiation when Climate and Security Meet" Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (August 24). (2009)
- Dabelko G., "Planning for Climate Change: The Security Community's Precautionary Principle" Climatic Change Vol 96 (1): 13. (2009)
- Dabelko G., "An Uncommon Peace: Environment, Development, and the Global Security Agenda." Environment Vol. 50 (3): 32-45. (2008)
- Dabelko G., Vogel C., et al, "Linking Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience Science to Practice: Players, Pathways and Partnerships." Global Environmental Change (17): 349–364. (2007)