Free and open to the public.
Every Tuesday, October 3 - December 5, 2023; 9:30 - 11:00 AM EDT.
Hosted on Zoom - Register for link.
Course Description: This 10-week seminar is focused on the multifaceted and complex interrelationships between climate change, conflict, and poverty (under-development) in developing countries. The course will familiarize students with key concepts, theories, and approaches to studying poverty, inequality, and conflict; dimensions and recurrence of conflicts; security-development nexus; natural resources and conflict; climate change and migration; environment and sustainable development.
Presented by The New University in Exile Consortium at The New School for Social Research.
Available on The New University in Exile Consortium website.
Participants who attend at least 8 complete seminar sessions will receive a certificate of satisfactory completion from the Dean of The New School for Social Research. In order to obtain the certificate, participants must register and log in with the same email address each week.
Registration will remain open for the duration of the seminar. Registrants will receive a reminder email with the Zoom link each week. The seminar sessions will be recorded and available to registrants on Vimeo the following week.
Dr. Mulu G. Gebreyohannes is a Development Economist with over seventeen years of post-doctoral research experience. He has published more than 50 scholarly articles and led more than seventeen research projects. He has also engaged extensively in policy advice and international consultancies. Gebreyohannes holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Dr. Sied Mohamed is currently a researcher at Cadmus Group in Virginia. He previously worked as a senior research fellow at the Ethiopian Policy Institute and was an assistant professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and Whitman College. His research focuses on household and enterprise energy consumption, efficiency, and access issues in developing countries. Dr. Mohamed holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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