It's been a big summer for AC4's partnership with the Agirre Lehendakaria Center (ALC) in the Basque Country. We welcomed a delegation from the Basque and Catalan governments to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the first Basque government and discuss how our peace and polarization research can connect with ALC's K-Tool to support more participatory, democratic policymaking. Behind the scenes, our team rolled out a new and improved version of our app's back-end, and we're now teaming up with the Basque Supercomputing Center (HITZ) to keep building, with new student researchers joining the effort…
Read the article on Nuclear Disarnmement and Just Transition, written by AC4 researchers. PDF here
October 6th , 2025
11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
The Forum, Room 316
Pacific Island nations are the crossroads of multiple competing dilemmas. From geopolitical strategic competition to the best pathways for sustainable and resilient communities, states like French Polynesia are grappling with ways to balance global demand for marine resources in their sovereign waters with local stewardship and conservation. President Moetai Brotherson of French Polynesia will discuss the approach his government is taking to navigate the dilemmas of deep-sea mining and other resource issues as they strive…
Together with colleagues at CIESIN & Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, AC4 Director, Dr. Joshua D. Fisher, combined large N social surveys with earth observation data to examine the influence of protected areas and nature conservation on household wellbeing. By using machine learning approaches they calculated the influence of proximity to a protected area on a novel multidimensional index of wellbeing, and further examined how other factors (conflict exposure, perceived security, exposure to natural hazards, land cover change, local and regional governance, etc) influence wellbeing performance…