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May 28, 2012

IEDS governance committee member Dr. William Keeton and IEDS Fellow Yurij Bihun will be hosting a workshop on carbon dynamics and regional cooperation in the Carpathian region of Ukraine.

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IEDS News

12/20/2011 - 11:18am

Live, interactive webcast from Tokyo launching the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity:

In a live and interactive web TV programme from Tokyo, two of the key figures driving the response to the planet’s loss of biodiversity will be answering your questions about the United...

10/27/2011 - 6:25pm

IEDS Fellow Dr. Asim Zia is the lead author an a notable study regarding socio-ecological tradeoffs in managing a national park in Tanzania linked below.  This research was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for the research project “Advancing Conservation in a...

10/26/2011 - 5:41pm

The Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security has received a grant from The Tiffany & Co. Foundation to consider ways of linking environmental conservation to sustainable livelihoods in island economies using pearl farming. The $200,000 grant given to IEDS over 2 years will support...

09/21/2011 - 11:40pm

IEDS led a training course on diplomatic ways of approach treaties involving hazardous chemicals at the Global Mercury Conference, held in Halifax Canada this summer. This is the largest gathering of scientists and policy-makers to discuss ways of regulating the neurotoxic element which has been...

09/09/2011 - 10:24am

Dr. Saleem Ali, IEDS director, spoke to VT Public Radio about the upcoming 10th anniversary of the attacks of September 11.  He argued that focusing on peace-building is the "most lasting antidote to terrorism", and urged all Americans to consider the ways in which our national response to...

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Video: The Role of South-South Cooperation

Representatives of countries from the Global South shared their countries’ experiences as both...

Video: Resilience, Crisis and Food Security

Reflecting on experiences and lessons learned from the crises in Darfur and the Horn of Africa,...

Traffic Congestion and U.S. Economic “Recovery”

Data released today by INRIX estimated that...

IPI Receives Highest Rating from Charity Navigator

Charity Navigator, the largest non-profit evaluator in the United States, has awarded IPI its...

42nd IPI Vienna Seminar: The Future of North Africa and the Middle East

The two-day seminar on May 23-24th will center on the Arab uprisings, with a focus on what the...

Video: ''Ground Zero'' Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” has written a new...

Intelligence Report: Barrels at Risk

Instability in many of the world’s oil producing regions creates significant vulnerabilities to...

WaPo wrong on CES

The WaPo has been right so often on energy security lately that we were beginning to doubt it...