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Category Archives: Peacebuilding and Human Security – Week 2
Think piece #2
After reading the assignments for this week, I could have a better interpretation of political ecology that consists of different dynamics and adaptation of climate change as a new topic for international peace building to resolve both violent and non-violent … Continue reading
Think piece 2
Watts argues that political ecology is one of the approaches to thinking about the political economy of the environment, which caused the degradation of our environment based on the ideas of power dynamics in the state and capitalism. He asserts … Continue reading
Thinkpiece #2
Who are the major players in climate change? Which countries feel the worst pressure of rising temperatures and who should carry the burden of fixing the problem? These questions have proven to be almost impossible to answer, and the authors … Continue reading
“Litmus Test for Survival”
This week’s readings dealt with very similar overarching topics. Some of the major themes included neoliberalism and its role on security, the consequences of the Cold War on the climate, the current state we are in, and the future ahead … Continue reading
Thinkpiece Week 2
I was far more engaged this week by the readings, as they address the topic that drove me to take this seminar: Just how doomed are we, and what can everyone do about it? Buxton & Hayes argue against using … Continue reading
Ecology , Peace-building and Human Security
This week’s readings have made me question my original stance on framing environmental issues as security. It is clear to me that the security industry is not ready to change their approach to threats that are external, internal and sometimes … Continue reading
Think Piece 2
I was lucky enough to spend the last year abroad in Copenhagen, and once I finished packing, grabbed my metro card and registered for classes I was given one command: assimilate. Denmark is rather proud if not boisterously so of … Continue reading
Think 2
The chapters and segments for this week’s reading assignment almost all described preparatory and contingency plans regarding global climate change. The military, think tanks, corporations, and governments have been creating these plans for impending doom that have failed to set … Continue reading
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Thinkpiece No. 2
Ecology, peace-building, and human security Parenti’s piece was by far the most engaging of the weekly readings. The format and way he wrote about history was appealing. Buxton and Hayes explore four arguments about why there has been no taken … Continue reading
Thinkpiece Week 2
The questions that traverse this week’s reading are: who is causing climate change and who is affected by it? Ultimately, this exposes the question not only of which areas of our international and national political and economic systems need to … Continue reading