This work will be of great value to policy makers in mine-infested countries, as well as aid agencies and others. A workshop, bringing together senior government officials, directors of leading NGOs, and scholars was held at UCI in May 2000. A research program was developed and a series of publications are anticipated for 2001. Study of Environmental Stress, Conflict and Insecurity in Pakistan. It concluded that environmental stress, in concert with other factors, was closely related to increasing vulnerability, high levels of individual and group insecurity, and diffuse civil violence, and was creating conditions conducive to disaster.
Further work is underway.
Proposed Program on Food Systems and Security.