The LISC and MAS: Creating an interdisciplinary, international collaboration to address island climate migration

By University of Geneva, GCSP

 

Listeners are invited to follow the journey of Jessica Libertini (US), Emma Ortuño Lattur (Spain), Eduardo Meñez (Philippines), Adriana Hondora (Zimbabwe), and Abubakar Yakubu (Nigeria) as they arrive in Geneva for UNIGE's MAS in International and European Security and the GCSP's Leadership in International Security Course. In this podcast, this international team learns about international security and inclusive leadership, and then applies those lessons to examine the complex issue of climate migration in the context of small island developing states (SIDS). After introducing climate migration in the SIDS and the courses in which this team met, the five team members share some of the lessons they learned, their inclusive groupwork processes, the policy recommendations resulting from their foresighting analysis, and some challenges the team faced. The podcast closes with reflections on the feasibility, importance, and value of the intentional creation of diverse teams in addressing the globe's most pressing security challenges.

The University of Geneva's Masters of Advanced Studies in International and European Security, in partnership with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy's Leadership in International Security Course, offer security professionals from a wide variety of sectors, and from around the globe, an opportunity to come Geneva for eight months, to learn together, and to broaden their perspectives through a synergistic arrangement of academic and professional development programs.

 

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