USAID Science and Technology Advisor Dr. Alex Deghan outlines great challenges that require diplomatic solutions that incorporate science and technology, at the October 19, 2010 Science Diplomacy Boot Camp for Journalists.
4. Global Climatic Disruption Climate change will both affect the US and the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa substantially â this is a national security issue, an economic issue, a diplomacy issue.
6. Loss of Biodiversity Loss of Pollinators (Colony Collapse Disorder: 20-40% of US bee colonies, perhaps 50 billion bees; 90% of bat colony collapse in NE caves, Increased invasive species, increased disease risk (Chytrid fungus contributing to extinction or decline of 200 ssp. of frogs), unprecedented rates of species loss.
7. New diseases are emerging at a "historically unprecedented" rate of one per year. In the last five years alone, WHO has documented more than 1,100 epidemics including bird flu, polio and cholera. Emerging Infectious Diseases
9. Rule 2: Science Diplomacy Works Best with our Most Challenging Relationships
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12. Science as Public Diplomacy Science is the one area in the Islamic World where the United States enjoys an overwhelming popular opinion. The language of science is the same worldwide. Supporting scientific capacity allows the U.S. to counter arguments that it seeks to keep the Muslim World oppressed. Science provides a common language, common values, and common culture for engagement that is valued by all countries.
13. Promoting Moderation & Rationality Scientific engagement serves U.S. interests to promote stability by empowering a traditional source of moderate leadership in the country. Scientists frequently are the intelligentsia of society, and play important roles as leaders in many developing countries.
20. Rule 4: Science diplomacy is not the relationship, but the scaffolding for it.
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22. Promotes American Values The values inherent in science include honesty, doubt, respect for evidence, transparency and openness, meritocracy , accountability and tolerance and indeed hunger for opposing points of view.
23. Rule 5: Development is how we will meet our shared challenges
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Public Diplomacy : Science is the one area in the Arab World where the United States enjoys an overwhelming popular opinion. The language of science is the same worldwide. Supporting scientific capacity allows the U.S. to counter arguments that it seeks to keep the Muslim World oppressed.
Correlated 90% changes in 28,800 biological processes against observed temperature increases. Looked at alternative causation due to landuse changes. In biological systems, changes include shifts in spring events (for example, leaf unfolding, blooming date, migration and time of reproduction), species distributions and community structure. Additionally, studies have demonstrated changes in marine-ecosystem
Correlated 90% changes in 28,800 biological processes against observed temperature increases. Looked at alternative causation due to landuse changes. In biological systems, changes include shifts in spring events (for example, leaf unfolding, blooming date, migration and time of reproduction), species distributions and community structure. Additionally, studies have demonstrated changes in marine-ecosystem
Correlated 90% changes in 28,800 biological processes against observed temperature increases. Looked at alternative causation due to landuse changes. In biological systems, changes include shifts in spring events (for example, leaf unfolding, blooming date, migration and time of reproduction), species distributions and community structure. Additionally, studies have demonstrated changes in marine-ecosystem
Correlated 90% changes in 28,800 biological processes against observed temperature increases. Looked at alternative causation due to landuse changes. In biological systems, changes include shifts in spring events (for example, leaf unfolding, blooming date, migration and time of reproduction), species distributions and community structure. Additionally, studies have demonstrated changes in marine-ecosystem