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Oli Brown
» Senior Researcher and Program ManagerOli Brown is a program manager and senior researcher for IISD's Trade and Investment, and Security programs. He also co-ordinates the Trade Knowledge Network - a network of developing country research organizations working on the ways in which trade and investment policies can promote and enable sustainable development. He joined IISD in late 2004.
With a first degree in Social Anthropology and a Masters in International Relations, Oli spent two years in Nepal managing education and conservation projects and a year and a half as a trade policy researcher for Oxfam GB. He has completed consultancies for the UNDP, the International Organization for Migration and International Alert and has written on a wide range of trade, environment and sustainable development issues. In his personal time, Oli is a climbing, trekking and mountain bike guide in Africa, Asia and South America.
Publications
Battling the Elements: The security threat of climate change
Commentary: Oli Brown, Alec Crawford, 2009Give Peace (and the climate) a Chance
Commentary: Oli Brown, Alec Crawford, 2009A Recurring Anarchy? The emergence of climate change as a threat to international peace and security
Excerpt: Oli Brown, Robert McLeman, 2009Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East
Paper: Oli Brown, Alec Crawford, 2009Climate Change and Security in Africa
Paper: Oli Brown, Alec Crawford, 2009Trade Knowledge Network (TKN) Brochure
Outreach: Oli Brown, Flavia Thomé, Damon Vis-Dunbar, 2009Renforcement de la capacité de l’ICCN à la gestion et la résolution des conflits lies aux ressources naturelles dans le Parc National de Kahuzi-Biéga
Paper: Robert Kasisi, Oli Brown, 2009From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The role of natural resources and the environment
Paper: Richard Matthew, Oli Brown, David Jensen, 2009From Feast to Famine: After seven (relatively) good years, what now for commodity producers in the developing world?
Commentary: Oli Brown, 2008The Numbers Game
Paper: Oli Brown, 2008Climate change: A new threat to stability in West Africa? Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso
Paper: Oli Brown, Alec Crawford, 2008Growing Unrest: The links between farmed and fished resources and the risk of conflict
Paper: Alec Crawford, Oli Brown, 2008Environmental Change and the New Security Agenda: Implications for Canada’s security and environment
Paper: Oli Brown, Alec Crawford, Christine Campeau, 2008Is Green Great?: Balancing the Demands of Environmental Protection and Human Needs
Commentary: Oli Brown, 2008Migration and Climate Change
Book: Oli Brown, 2008Assessing the Security Implications of Climate Change for West Africa: Country Case Studies of Ghana and Burkina Faso
Book: Oli Brown, Alec Crawford, 2008Boom or Bust: How commodity price volatility impedes poverty reduction, and what to do about it
Book: Oli Brown, Jason Gibson, Alec Crawford, 2008Climate change and forced migration: Observations, projections and implications
Paper: Oli Brown, 2007Weather of Mass Destruction? The rise of climate change as the "new" security issue.
Commentary: Oli Brown, 2007Climate change as the ‘new’ security threat: implications for Africa
Paper: Oli Brown, Anne Hammill, Robert Mcleman, 2007Eating the Dry Season: Labour mobility as a coping strategy for climate change
Commentary: Oli Brown, 2007Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book, 2007 - Trade, Aid and Security: an agenda for peace and development
Paper: Oli Brown, 2007Supermarket Buying Power: Global Supply Chains and Smallholder Farmers
Paper: Oli Brown, Christina Sander, 2007Climate Change and Foreign Policy: An exploration of options for greater integration
Book: John Drexhage, Deborah Murphy, Oli Brown, Aaron Cosbey, Peter Dickey, Jo-Ellen Parry, John Van Ham, Richard Tarasofsky, Beverley Darkin, 2007Trade, Aid and Security: An agenda for peace and development
Book: Oli Brown, Mark Halle, Sonia Peña Moreno, Sebastian Winkler, 2007Conserving the Peace: Analyzing the links between conservation and conflict in the Albertine Rift
Paper: Anne Hammill, Oli Brown, 2006International Development Committee Inquiry – Written Evidence
Paper: Oli Brown, 2006Boom or Bust: Developing countries' rough ride on the commodity price rollercoaster
Paper: Oli Brown, Jason Gibson, 2006Good Times on the Commodity Price Rollercoaster: But how long can they last?
Commentary: Oli Brown, Jason Gibson, 2006Addressing Land Ownership after Natural Disasters - An Agency Survey
Paper: Oli Brown, Alec Crawford, 2006Continental Drift: Fractured multilateralism, regional trade agreements and the prospects for peace
Commentary: Oli Brown, 2006Aiding, Trading or Abetting? Trade and aid in an insecure world
Commentary: Oli Brown, 2006Trade, Aid and the Millennium Development Goals: Reaching the goals in an insecure world
Commentary: Oli Brown, 2006Growing into risk? Emerging environment and security issues in China
Paper: Alec Crawford, Oli Brown, Van Yang, 2006Natural Disasters and Resource Rights - Building resilience, rebuilding lives
Paper: Oli Brown, Alec Crawford, Anne Hammill, 2006Policy Submission on Aid Policy for the UN International Meeting on Small Island Developing States
Paper: Oli Brown, 2005Regional Trade Agreements: Promoting conflict or building peace?
Paper: Oli Brown, Faisal Haq Shaheen, Shaheen Rafi Khan, Moeed Yusuf, 2005The Environment and our Security: how our understanding of the links has changed
Paper: Oli Brown, 2005A New Spring for the UN? Kofi Annan unveils ambitious agenda
Commentary: Oli Brown, 2005EU Trade Policy and Conflict
Paper: Oli Brown, 2005Aiding or Abetting? Dilemmas of foreign aid and political instability in the Melanesian Pacific
Paper: Oli Brown, 2005Cutting our Losses? Reducing the illegal trade in natural resources, Bangkok
Paper: Oli Brown, 2004