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Climate Change, Conflict, and Underdevelopment

Free 10-Week Online Seminar Fall 2023

Hosted on Zoom – Register for Link

Every Tuesday, October 3 – December 5, 2023

9:30 – 11:00 AM EDT

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.

Seminar Co-Leaders:

Dr. Mulu Gebreyohannes

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

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.


More Information:

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.


Weekly Readings:

Week 1, October 3: The Concept of Development: Meaning, Dimensions, Values, and Measures

Week 2, October 10: Sustainable Development

Week 3, October 17: Concepts of Violence and Global Recurrence of Conflicts

Week 4, October 24: The Relationship Between (Under)Development and (In)Security

Week 5, October 31: Why States Fail? Poverty, Natural Resources, Conflict, and Governance

Week 6, November 7: Introduction to Environment, Natural Resources, and Economy

Week 7, November 14: Ethics, Economics, and the Environment

Week 8, November 21: Natural Resources and Conflict: Theory and Evidences of Resource Curse

Week 9, November 28: Climate Change, Temperature Variation, Economy, and Conflict

Week 10, December 5: Climate Change and Migration

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