Fisheries Discussion: April 1, 2008

Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of

Troubled Waters: Anticipating, Preventing, and Resolving Conflict Around Fisheries

featuring

Richard Pollnac, Professor of Anthropology and Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island

Chip Barber, Environmental Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org

Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation. Lunch will be provided.

This meeting will examine the interactions between demographics, environmental stress, livelihoods, and conflict in the context of fisheries, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia. Two experts will discuss the tools that policymakers and practitioners use to predict how these factors might contribute to*or help resolve*local and regional conflicts. Richard Pollnac of the University of Rhode Island will discuss conflicts between local natural resource user groups and coastal management strategies, while Chip Barber of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will focus his remarks on the live fish trade.

This is the third event in ECSP’s “New Horizons at the Nexus of Conflict, Natural Resources, and Health” series, which examines new thinking and research at the intersection of these areas. This series is funded jointly by USAID’s Office of Natural Resources Management, its Office of Population and Reproductive Health, and its Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, with technical support from USAID’s Asia and Near East and Africa bureaus. For more information on this series, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/newhorizons.

If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.

Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th Floor Conference Room. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Photo identification is required to enter the building. Please allow additional time to pass through security.