Will People in Alaska and the South Pacific be Forced to Relocate? The Human Rights Implications of Climate Change and Population Displacement
Robin Bronen is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She explores the ways in which climate change is affecting the places where people live, and the emergence of climate refugees.
This talk was filmed @360, November 5, 2014.
The Juneau World Affairs Council presents “Will China Rule the World?” with Ronald Tammen. Tammen is an author and political science professor at Portland State University. His current research centers on China and India’s emergence as world powers.
CAUTION: This program contains images and descriptions of an active war zone that some viewers my find objectionable.
Radwan Ziadeh is an author, scholar and international policy expert with a focus on Syria. He is founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria. He is also a co-founder and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C.
He gave a talk @360 on September 24, 2014.
Sulak Sivaraksa is the founder of a number of social, humanitarian, ecological and spiritual movements and organizations in Thailand. He is an advocate for social and political change in his native country as well as on a global scale.
He gave a talk @360 on September 3, 2014.
Tony Woodcock is President of the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston. The NEC just graduated its fifth class of Sistema Fellows. These Fellows are educated in Venezuela’s El Sistema music principles, which Tony will explain in his talk. The Fellows are creating and leading musical education centers for children throughout the United States and beyond. Lorrie Heagy, director of Juneau Alaska Music Matters (JAMM), was a member of the first class of Fellows, and has created a program here in Juneau that embodies the ideals of El Sistema. She and her program are nationally admired as leaders in the American movement.
The Juneau World Affairs Council presents Alex Counts, founder of the Grameen Foundation. The foundation combats global poverty through microfinance, mobile healthcare and empowering farmers.
Recorded May 15, 2014
