ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Yangmo Ku Associate Professor Political Science yku@norwich.edu
The Peace and War Center is a Norwich University academic center of excellence for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking to advance interdisciplinary knowledge on the relationship between peace and warfare at local, national, and global levels.
2020 William E. Colby Award The Colby Award recognizes a FIRST WORK of fiction or nonfiction that has made a major contribution to the understanding of military history, intelligence operations, or international affairs. A $5,000 author honorarium is provided to the award winner through the generosity of the Chicago-based Pritzker Military Foundation. The award and honorarium will be presented at Norwich University during the 2020 NU Military Writers’ Symposium in fall 2020. To qualify for consideration for the 2020 Colby…Read More
Student's view: Sherri Goodman speaks on climate change and military readiness
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herri Goodman, author of “The Role of Water Stress in Instability and Conflict” and former U.S. deputy defense undersecretary (environmental security), joined Dr. Travis Morris’ terrorism class on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, to lead a discussion on environmental security. Goodman, drawing on her experience with the Defense Department, answered questions on resource scarcity, weaponizing resources and the maldistribution of limited resources.
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A dangerous climate
Wilson Center environmental change and security expert to speak on Norwich’s campus
Climate change exacerbates military challenges and multiplies threats, former Deputy Defense Undersecretary Sherri Goodman has said, enough that the U.S. Defense Department is integrating these risks into strategies and plans.
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Norwich University hosts speaker on climate and national security
NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Norwich University will present “Climate and Security in an Era of Great Power Competition and Global Disruption,” a talk by Sherri Goodman, senior fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute, at noon Friday, Oct. 11 in the Mack Hall auditorium. Goodman is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, “threat multiplier,” to fundamentally reshape the…Read More
Norwich political science professor earns Board of Fellows Faculty Development Prize
Research project examined past Injustices in Japan and Germany
EDITORS NOTE: This story was updated at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 19, 2019
Norwich University Associate Professor of Political Science Yangmo Ku accepted the Board of Fellows Faculty Development Prize for the 2019-20 academic on Wednesday at Kreitzberg Arena, thanking officials for their support and the university for its teaching opportunities.
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