Geoffrey Dabelko

Geoffrey D. Dabelko is Professor and Associate Dean at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University in Athens, OH. He teaches and conducts applied research in the School's Environmental Studies Program. His recent research focuses on the conflict and cooperation potential of responses to climate change and environmental peacebuilding.

From 1997-2012, he served as director of the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP), a nonpartisan policy forum on environment, population, and security issues at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He continues to work as a senior advisor to the Wilson Center and ECSP where he helps facilitate dialogue among policymakers, practitioners, and scholars grappling with the complex connections that link environment, health, population, conflict, and security.

Dabelko was the principal investigator for ECSP's "Navigating Peace: Forging New Water Partnerships" Initiative and is currently the PI for the National Science Foundation-funded Environment and Security and the U.S. National Security Committee grant. He worked previously at Foreign Policy and the Council on Foreign Relations. He taught environmental peacebuilding as an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and taught global environmental politics at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Dabelko is co-editor, with Ken Conca of American University, of Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics (6th ed., 2019) and Environmental Peacemaking (2002). Dabelko and Conca were the co-recipients of the Fifth Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding in 2018.

Dabelko is a member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding and an advisory board member of Screenscope's "Journey to Planet Earth" PBS documentary initiative. He is a board member at Population Reference Bureau and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. He is an editorial board member of Case Studies in Environment and a contributing editor to Environment. He was a former Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Washington Term Member Advisory Council. He was a lead author for the 5th assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Chapter 12 on Human Security.

Dabelko has a Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland and an AB in political science from Duke University. He lives in Athens, OH with his wife and three children.