On Thursday, October 14th, AfP convened leading voices from the fields of conservation, climate change response and adaptation, conflict prevention, and climate-fragility for a discussion on how communities can best build resilience against ecological threats. Examining the newly released second edition of the Institute for Economics and Peace's Ecological Threat Register, the conversation discussed how we can bridge the gap between the traditionally siloed disciplines of conflict prevention and environmental programming and how to merge global-level evidence with local action at the community level.
Speakers included:
-Liz Hume (Opening Remarks), Acting President and CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding
-Cynthia Brady (Moderator), Global Fellow and Senior Advisor, The Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program
-Michael Collins, Executive Director, the Americas, Institute for Economics and Peace
-Francine Madden, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Center for Conservation Peacebuilding
-John Furlow, Director, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School
