Geoffrey D. Dabelko is a professor at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at

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in Athens, OH. He teaches and conducts applied research in the School's Environmental Studies Program and Master's in Sustainability, Security, and Resilience. His recent research focuses on the conflict and cooperation potential of responses to climate change,

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, and sustainability,

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, and older adults.

Early life and education

Dabelko grew up in Athens, Ohio, graduating from Athens High School. He has an AB in political science from Duke University and a

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. in government and politics from the

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Career

From 1997-2012, Dabelko served as director of the

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(ECSP) at the

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He continues to work as a senior advisor to the Wilson Center. He is also an Associate Senior Fellow with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on its Environment of Peace Initiative. From 2012-2018, he served as director of Ohio University's Environmental Studies Program. From 2016-2022, he served as Associate Dean at the Voinovich School. He has held previous positions at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's '' Foreign Policy'' and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dabelko is a former member of the

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’s Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. He is a board member (and former chair) at

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and a founding board member of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. He is an editorial board member of the journal ''Case Studies in the Environment,'' published through University of California Press''.'' Dabelko was a lead author on the 5th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II Chapter 12 on "Human Security." He is a chapter author on the 5th U.S.

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Research

Dabelko is known for his research in and work on environmental peacebuilding. He is co-editor, with Ken Conca of American University, of ''Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics'' and ''Environmental Peacemaking''. Dabelko and Conca were the co-recipients of the Fifth Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding in 2018 for their work on environmental peacebuilding.

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, Executive Director of the

remarked, “No two individuals have shaped our institutional thinking on environmental peacebuilding more than Geoff Dabelko and Ken Conca."

Personal life

Dabelko lives in

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Publications

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References

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