Papers

Delivering a Sustainable Tomorrow: The U.S. Military’s Role in the Future of Global Climate Change
By Theodore J. Shanks BA, MA
The nature of war does not change. This Clausewitzian principle, ground into the minds of even the youngest military scholars, has influenced generations of strategic minds. While no doubt valid, this axiom paradoxically tends to stifle innovative technologies and concepts, hoodwinking young military planners into believing innovation has little place in warfare. If war never changes, why evolve? However, while war’s nature is indeed constant, war’s character undoubtedly evolves. The U.S. Department of Defense, as well as the various federally funded think-tanks and academic institutions around the nation, spend considerable money, resources, and effort to uncover new and emerging threats to American security and devise ways to prevent, mitigate, or eliminate those threats. One threat, although clearly identified for nearly a century, remains conspicuously by the wayside: global climate change. 
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Localization in the Humanitarian Sector: A Cross Comparative Study  
By Jimena Rascon Duran, Aboud Ashhab, Yeabfikir Ayele Alemayehu, Greta Filor, Sabina Topol, Georgia Harrington, Crystal Kembo, Ariana Zwern, Supervised by David Polatty and the Military Fellows Program 
In May 2016, the Grand Bargain launched during the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul set an agreement between major humanitarian donors and aid organizations to commit “to get more means into the hands of the people in need and to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian action.” Currently there are 68 Signatories including 25 Member States, 26 NGOs, 12 UN agencies, 2 Red Cross/Red Crescent movements, and 2 inter-governmental organizations. 

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