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Tad Homer-Dixon
Director of the Trudeau Centre
for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto;
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University
of Toronto
Thomas Homer-Dixon, or “Tad” as
his friends and colleagues know him, is Director of the Trudeau Centre
for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto,
and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1956 and grew up in a
rural area outside the city. After studying for two years
at the University of Victoria in the late-1970s, he moved to Ottawa,
where in 1980 he received his B.A. in Political Science from
Carleton University. He then founded a national student organization
that encouraged debate on the ethical implications of scientific research, and he traveled
widely overseas.
In 1983, he began graduate work in Political Science
at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied international
relations, defense and arms control policy, cognitive science, environmental
science, and conflict theory. After completing his Ph.D. in
1989, he moved to the University of Toronto and, in the subsequent eight
years, led several international research projects examining the links
between environmental stress and violence in developing countries. Recently,
his research has focused on threats to global security in the 21st
century and on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological,
and technological change. His work is highly interdisciplinary, drawing
on political science, economics, environmental studies, geography,
cognitive science, social psychology, and complex systems theory.
Dr. Homer-Dixon teaches undergraduate and graduate courses
on environmental security; causes of war, revolution, and
ethnic conflict; international relations; and philosophy of social
science. In 1999 he received the University of Toronto's Northrop
Frye Teaching Award for integrating teaching and research.
His writings have appeared in leading scholarly journals,
popular magazines, and newspapers. His books include The
Ingenuity Gap (Knopf, 2000), which won the 2001 Governor General's
Non-fiction Award; Environment, Scarcity,and Violence (Princeton
University Press, 1999), which received the 2000 Lynton Keith Caldwell
Prize from the American Political Science Association; and,
coedited with Jessica Blitt, Ecoviolence: Links among Environment,
Population, and Security (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
He has been invited to speak about his research at Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
and Cornell Universities, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, MIT, West Point, Oxford and Cambridge Universities,
the World Bank, the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and the Council on Foreign Relations in
New York.
Dr. Homer-Dixon has also provided briefings
to the Privy Council Office, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade, and the Department of Defence in Canada; and to the Central
Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, the State
Department, the Agency for International Development, and the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. He twice briefed
Al Gore during his tenure as Vice President of the United States.
last reviewed
November 13, 2005
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