December 8, 2010: Security and Natural Resources - Implications for Development Assistance- Video

Video presentation of the December 8 seminar. 

In this seminar, speakers discuss their recent report, Sustaining Security: How Natural Resources Influence National Security. The authors highlight several case studies, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Mexico and Yemen, as examples of how natural security challenges are directly linked to internal stability, regional dynamics and U.S. security and foreign policy interests. The seminar includes a discussion about how difficult it is to bridge the conservation and security communities, yet how important it is to help the security community better understand these challenges and ways for moving forward.