http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/06/the-missing-piece-in-sustainable-peace/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/06/the-missing-piece-in-sustainable-peace/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:28:12 +0000 Peter Coleman http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31965 We know very little about what "peace" is (and what it isn’t), the conditions that promote it, the motives that drive people to work for it, how to measure it, and how to build a climate and infrastructure that sustains it. Why? Because we don’t study peace. We study war, violence, aggression and conflict—and peace in the context of those states and processes—but few study peace directly.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/06/the-missing-piece-in-sustainable-peace/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/20/climate-change-partisanship-and-conflict/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/20/climate-change-partisanship-and-conflict/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:35:59 +0000 Peter Coleman http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=17884 When it comes to climate, data, research and problem-solving are taking a back seat to ideology, sentiment and politics. There is a great sense of disdain and suspicion right now for the liberal scientific elite in a significant portion of the U.S. population, and I’m afraid the feeling is often mutual. What can be done? ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/20/climate-change-partisanship-and-conflict/feed/ 1