Geoffrey Dabelko

American academic

Geoffrey D. Dabelko is a professor at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University in Athens, OH. He teaches and conducts applied research in the School's Environmental Studies Program and Master's in Sustainability, Security, and Resilience. His recent research focuses on the conflict and cooperation potential of responses to climate change, environmental peacebuilding, and climate resilience and older adults.

Dabelko grew up in Athens, Ohio, graduating from Athens High School. He has an AB in political science from Duke University and a Ph. D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland. He continues to work as a senior advisor to the Wilson Center. He is also an Associate Senior Fellow with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on its Environment of Peace Initiative. From 2012 2018, he served as director of Ohio University's Environmental Studies Program. From 2016 2022, he served as Associate Dean at the Voinovich School. He has held previous positions at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Foreign Policy and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dabelko is a former member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. He was a board member (and former chair) at Population Reference Bureau and a founding board member of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. He is an editorial board member of the journal Case Studies in the Environment, published through University of California Press. Dabelko was a lead author on the 5th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II Chapter 12 on "Human Security." He is a chapter author on the International chapter of the 5th U. S. National Climate Assessment.

Dabelko is known for his research in and work on environmental peacebuilding. He is co editor, with Ken Conca of American University, of Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics and Environmental Peacemaking. Dabelko and Conca were the co recipients of the Fifth Al Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding in 2018 for their work on environmental peacebuilding. Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme remarked, “No two individuals have shaped our institutional thinking on environmental peacebuilding more than Geoff Dabelko and Ken Conca."

Dabelko lives in Athens, OH.

Dabelko, Geoffrey D. et al. (2023). Navigating a just and peaceful transition. Part 3. Environment of Peace Initiative. Stockholm: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. https://doi. org/10.55163/BHYR7656
Dabelko Schoeny, Holly; Dabelko, Geoffrey D., Rao, Smitha; Damico, Melissa; Doherty, Fiona C.; Travor, Anthony C.; Sheldon, Marissa. (2024). "Age friendly and climate resilience communities: A grey green alliance." The Gerontologist Vol 64 No 3. March. https://academic. oup. com/gerontologist/advance article/doi/10.1093/geront/gnad137/7293249