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Richard A.
Matthew (PhD Princeton) is Director of
the Center for Unconventional Security
Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu)
and Associate Professor of International
and Environmental Politics in the
Schools of Social Ecology and Social
Science at the University of California
at Irvine. He is also the Senior Fellow
for Security at the International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD);
a member of the World Conservation
Union's Commission on Environmental,
Economic and Social Policy; and a member
of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council (Region 1).
His research focuses on four themes: (1) the structure and dynamics of transnational threat systems such as global terrorism; (2) the relationship between demographic change and new security challenges in democracies; (3) the relationships among microfinance, security and sustainable development; and (4) the environmental dimensions of conflict, human security and peacebuilding in war-torn societies of the developing world, especially in South Asia and East Africa. He has collaborated with IISD to study environmental change in relation to the causes of conflict, conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sudan. All of this research explores ways in which conservation and sustainable development can be designed and implemented to reduce violence and insecurity in different settings. Recent books and co-edited volumes include Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics (SUNY Press: 1999); Dichotomy of Power: Nation versus State in World Politics (Lexington: 2002); Conserving the Peace: Resources, Livelihoods, and Security (IISD: 2002); Reframing the Agenda: The Impact of NGO and Middle Power Cooperation in International Security Policy (Praeger: 2003); and Landmines and Human Security: International Relations and War's Hidden Legacy (SUNY Press: 2004). |
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