Emerging Trend: Linkage Between Environment and National Security

WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 3, 2010 — How does drought destabilize governments? How will the warming of the Northwest Passage affect the security of the United States? How do water, land, energy, food and air relate to and affect national security strategies? These questions, among others, will be addressed by legal, national security and environmental change experts at the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security conference Nov. 4-5 in Washington, D.C. at the Renaissance Hotel.

Participants will be available on-site for interviews. Reporters who wish to cover this topic and are unable to attend are encouraged to contact the participants:

Professor Linda Malone, William & Mary Law School, (757) 221-3844, lamalo@wm.edu

Cmdr. James Kraska, JAGC, USN, U.S. Naval War College, (401) 841-6983, james.kraska@usnwc.edu

Professor Stephen Dycus, Vermont Law School, (802) 831-1292, sdycus@vermontlaw.edu

Geoffrey Dabelko, director, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, (202) 691-4178, geoff.dabelko@wilsoncenter.org

For more information about the Standing Committee on Law and National Security, please go to http://www.abanet.org/natsecurity/.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

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Note to Reporters: Reporters planning to attend the program should contact Kristin Loiacono for credentials at 202/662-1092 or loiaconok@staff.abanet.org.