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Hind Kabawat Director of Interfaith Peacebuilding, CRDC, George Mason University
Attorney and Tanenbaum peacemaker Hind Kabawat writes about the deteriorating humanitarian situation for women in and around Idlib, where she cofounded the Jarjanaz and Darraya Women’s Peace Centre with the E.U. last year.
Jessica Marks Founder and Co-President, Refugee Center Online
Lana Radosavljevic Employee Services Associate, Upwardly Global
The explosion of tech solutions for refugees in Europe has earned justified skepticism, but there are smarter ways to harness technology to improve refugee support, say Jessica Marks and Lana Radosavljevic of the Refugee Center Online, offering lessons from the U.S.
In the first Deeply Talks of 2018, Syria Deeply talks with Faysal Itani of the Atlantic Council about the state of diplomatic negotiations, Syria’s economy and the escalation of violence across the country.
A recent expedition off of the California coast was able to take a rare look at how ash from the massive Thomas fire may have affect the coastal marine ecosystem. University of California, Santa Barbara oceanographer Kelsey Bisson explains why it was a unique opportunity.
A dam failure in 1989 prompted the state of Utah to revamp its dam safety program. Engineer David Marble explains how the state keeps up with the task a generation later.
Matthew Goodwin Professor of Politics, University of Kent
Andrew Geddes Director, Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute
James Dennison Research Fellow, Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute
While some observers argue that Europe’s ‘populist right’ is now in retreat, James Dennison, Andrew Geddes and Matthew Goodwin explain the rising appeal of anti-immigration parties in Italy ahead of the forthcoming elections.
Amruta Byatnal Community Editor of Malnutrition Deeply
Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), says countries and organizations need to constructively push private corporations to encourage good nutrition practices.
Turkey recently announced plans to possibly launch an operation on a Kurdish-held enclave in northern Syria. Jasper Finke, a lecturer in international law, assesses whether there is a legal justification for Ankara’s potential operation.
Jelena Jezdimirovic Research Associate, PPIC Water Policy Center
Caitrin Chappelle Associate Director, PPIC Water Policy Center
Ellen Hanak Director, PPIC Water Policy Center
When it comes to understanding how many people are impacted by unsafe water and which water suppliers have chronic problems, California is in need of better data, say water experts from the Public Policy Institute of California.
Flor Didden Migration Policy Officer
Belgium’s controversial migration minister Theo Francken survived claims that he deported Sudanese migrants back into harm’s way. Flor Didden from the Flemish North-South Movement warns that more returns will mean more scandals.
Jeff Crisp Formerly Head of Policy Development and Evaluation, UNHCR
As Rohingya refugees poured out of Myanmar into Bangladesh last fall, the two countries were already negotiating mass returns. This wouldn’t be the first premature repatriation of Rohingya, but today it reflects a trend of unsafe returns, says refugee expert Jeff Crisp.
The U.S. Water Alliance heard from 500 people in the water sector about the nation’s water challenges and solutions and distilled conversations down to seven key ideas, says Radhika Fox, the organization’s chief executive.
In the latest Deeply Talks, we talk to experts about wildfires, mudslides, infrastructure and what to keep an eye on in 2018 for water in the West.
Euan Ritchie Supports the Work of Owen Barder in the CGD Europe Office
Owen Barder Vice President, Center for Global Development
Experiments like social impact bonds point the way to smart investments in integrating refugees. Leading development economist Owen Barder says the right incentives could unlock returns for investors.
Understanding watersheds is vital to tracking environmental conditions and water availability. Now there’s a web-based tool that offers temperature and precipitation forecasts at the watershed level, says scientist Andy Wood.
Steve Rintoul, an oceanographer at Australia’s CSIRO, is embarking on a mission to deploy floats that will collect data from deep in the Southern Ocean. He tells talks about why understanding this region is crucial to getting a better handle on climate change.
DR. Ahmad Tarakji President, Syrian American Medical Society
The Syrian government recently allowed only 29 of 600 critically ill patients in Eastern Ghouta to be evacuated in a prisoner exchange. It’s the latest example of the regime using a humanitarian situation as a bargaining chip, writes SAMS president Dr. Ahmad Tarakji.
David Nahai Former Chair, Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
A new initiative, the Clean Water Accountability Project, will help boost efforts to enforce California’s water laws and environmental protections, writes environmental attorney David Nahai.
Maria O’Sullivan Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University
Those looking to emulate Australia’s refugee system often ignore its resettlement program while touting the offshoring of asylum seekers. Maria O’Sullivan from the Castan Centre offers a more realistic assessment.
Nutrition features prominently in the Sustainable Development Goals, but Dr. Jessica Fanzo, one of the experts behind the 2017 Global Nutrition Report, says more work needs to be done to integrate efforts to address malnutrition into other sectors.
The Arizona city has spent more than $2 million subsidizing rainwater harvesting systems. Consultant Gary Woodard explains that results from a new study he is leading show such systems don’t just collect water, they also change behavior.
We speak to Omron Blauo, co-founder of the Refugee Code Academy, about his efforts to bring coding skills to refugee camps in Africa and what he has learned from the challenges they faced along the way.
The coming year in Syria will likely be marked by reconciliation deals, partial economic recovery and, ultimately, Assad continuing to hold power in the country, according to Syria expert Fabrice Balance.
Even today, few people have ever traveled to the bottom of the ocean. Stockton Rush, chief executive of OceanGate, explains why he is designing a submersible that will take paying clients there on research missions.
Eileen Sobeck was recently hired as executive director of California’s powerful State Water Resources Control Board after decades in federal service. Politics in Washington, she says, make this an important time for states to lead on water and climate issues.
Jay Lund Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, University of California
As California considers how to fund safe drinking water for all communities, Jay Lund of University of California, Davis has an idea to combine small, mandatory charges with larger, voluntary, charges for residential customers.
Malcolm David Hudson Academic, University of Southampton
The global community has solved significant environment problems, such as the ozone hole, but has fallen far short on others. When it come to plastic pollution, environmental researcher Malcolm David Hudson asks, which way will the world go?
Climate change has irreversibly changed the Arctic from its reliably frozen past. Recently, U.S. government researchers, dubbing it the ‘New Arctic,’ said there’s little chance of going back to the way things were.
In 2014 Californians approved Proposition 1. Ellen Hanak at the Public Policy Institute of California breaks down how much of that $7.5 billion has been appropriated so far and what that means for future water spending.
The maritime industry is full of risk, but piracy is a particularly frightening one. Conor Seyle of the foundation One Earth Future explains why the maritime industry needs to better address the PTSD that seafarers may experience.
In a deep, dark and unexplored corner of the ocean, researchers are searching for the answer to how all life on Earth began. Take a journey with them.
Barry Gold Environment Program Director, Walton Family Foundation
Allison Harvey Turner Environment Program Director, S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation
There are reasons to be hopeful about the future of the Salton Sea, but that depends continued action and investment, writes Allison Harvey Turner of S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation and Barry Gold of Walton Family Foundation.
Hatchlings make a dangerous run for the ocean as soon as they are born, but light pollution can confuse them. Florida biologist Sarah L. Milton explains how she measured the physiological effects of babies getting lost.
As international powers push for a settlement for the Syrian conflict, Syria Deeply talks with AUB Senior Fellow Rami Khoury and Al-Monitor Russia Coverage editor Max Suchkov about the prospects and challenges of a peace deal.
The Bhamashah scheme running in Rajasthan aims to increase women’s financial inclusion by giving them more control over their family’s money. Women & Girls speaks with Anit Mukherjee, who co-authored a report on the program’s progress toward that goal.
In February, construction will begin on a research and expedition vessel like no other. Nina Jensen, the new chief executive of the company behind the ship, hopes that it will be a “floating think tank” that will change the conversation about ocean health.
Samuel Hall Research Team Independent Think Tank
Ashley Hamer Journalist and Photographer reporting on East Africa
With 17 million people crippled by drought in the Horn of Africa, Samuel Hall researchers and photographer Ashley Hamer explain the realities of climate-induced displacement in Somalia on World Refugee Day.
Emily A. Lynch Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University
Congolese refugees in Rwanda’s Gihembe camp have complained for years that U.N. food rations are making them sick. Emily Lynch, an anthropologist at Marquette University, describes how the refugees cope with hunger and sickness in the first of a two-part story.
Steve Godfrey Chief Investment Officer, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
The U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals make up an ambitious new agenda. But Steve Godfrey of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition writes that unless there is investment in improving the nutritional health of women and girls, many of the goals will never be realized.
France Bégin Senior Nutrition Adviser for Infant and Young Child Nutrition, UNICEF headquarters in New York
More than half of all newborns are not breastfed in the first hour after birth – which could be the difference between life and death. More needs to be done to help women make informed choices about breastfeeding, writes UNICEF’s France Begin.
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