by Maureen Purcell | Nov 22, 2024 | Blog, Environmental Peacebuilding, Planetary Health, Research
By Stephanie Martinez, UCI Blum Center PhD student Last month, I had the exciting opportunity to represent the Blum Center at the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP16). While COPs such as this are at the center of my studies, I’d never had the...
by Maureen Purcell | Jun 26, 2024 | Blog, Press Coverage, Research
Last week, the UN Environmental Programme and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association released their latest technical report, “Digital Technologies for Environmental Peacebuilding: Horizon scanning of opportunities & risks” which aims to better...
by Maureen Purcell | Apr 12, 2024 | Blog, Research, Uncategorized
Recently, the Blum Center was visited by two of our partners on the new Power of Music initiative, award winning filmmakers Michael Uwemedimo of Collaborative Media Advocacy Platform in Nigeria and Petna Ndaliko Katondolo of Yole!Africa in the Democratic Republic of...
by Maureen Purcell | Mar 9, 2024 | Blog, Press Coverage, Research
We are thrilled and grateful to officially announce a new addition to our growing network of dedicated supporters! The Drake Gives, founded by Alec Glasser, donated $1.5 Million which will be used to support a new collaborative imitative: The Power of Music. Blum...
by Maureen Purcell | Jan 8, 2024 | Blog, Climate Change & Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Peacebuilding, Flood, Planetary Health, Research
Together with our collaborators at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, we’ve just published a new research article in the Journal of Climate Change and Human Health.”Complex adaptive systems-based framework for modeling the health impacts of...
by Maureen Purcell | Dec 11, 2023 | Blog, Climate Change & Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Peacebuilding, Flood, Planetary Health
Blum Center director, Richard Matthew, shared reflections on global collaboration for climate mitigation and the unique challenges and opportunities we currently face in this regard for the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, of...
