Environmental Scarcity and Instability in the West African Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin (Event Cancelled *)
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
* The event was cancelled due to the college’s response to COVID-19.
The Bechtel Lecture
Panelists:
Michael Beevers, Dickinson College
Guy Feldman, former Israel Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS (The Economic Community of West African States)
Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob (moderator and panelist), Dickinson College
Other Panelists: TBD
The West African Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin currently face two major threats: increasing environmental degradation and violence. This forum discusses the destabilizing interactions between declining renewable natural resources (such as fresh water and arable soil), ecological marginalization, resource capture, population growth, the rise of violent extremist networks and weakened governing institutions in the region.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.
Biographies (provided by the panelists)
Michael Beevers is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, and contributing faculty in the Department of International Studies at Dickinson College. Beevers specializes in global environmental politics with an emphasis on the linkages between the environment, security, conflict and peace. Beevers was a peace scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington DC, and has served as a research associate at Princeton University and Read more