The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law announced today that Celeste Ward Gventer, a defense policy expert, will join the Strauss Center’s leadership team as Associate Director this November.

The Strauss Center’s CCAPS program has initiated a new Policy Brief Series, publishing short papers on research underway in the program.  The series aims to convey ongoing program research regularly to the policy and research communities.  The program is releasing several briefs in the series in September 2010, including “International Development Assistance for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: The Aid Scramble,” written by Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis.

The CCAPS program issued its first call for papers on environmental security, open exclusively to scholars from and based in Africa. The Call for Papers is co-sponsored by the Strauss Center, the Institute for Security Studies, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

The Strauss Center’s Climate Change and African Political Stability program has initiated a new Working Paper Series, publishing full-length working papers on research underway in the program.  The publication series aims to convey ongoing program research regularly to the policy and research communities.  The program released its first working paper in the series in August of 2010: Locating Climate Insecurity: Where are the Most Vulnerable Places in Africa?, written by Joshua W. Busby, Todd G. Smith, Kaiba L. White, and Shawn M. Strange.