Oli Brown
Oli 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. His main areas of interest lie in conflict prevention, peacebuilding, environmental management and trade policy.
Oli spent two years in Nepal managing education and environmental projects, and a year and a half as a trade policy researcher for Oxfam GB. He has worked on the UNDP’s Human Development report and completed consultancies for the International Organization for Migration and International Alert. In addition, he has written on a wide range of trade, environment and sustainable development issues, and organizes and teaches an annual graduate-level course on environment politics for Duke University. In his personal time, Oli is a climbing, trekking and mountain bike guide in Africa, Asia and South America.
Education
- Master of International Studies (2004): University of Dunedin.
- Master (Hons) of History and Social Anthropology (2000): University of Glasgow.
Languages
English, French, German, Nepali, Spanish
Oli Brown is no longer affiliated with IISD.
Publications
Campaigning rhetoric or bleak reality? Just how serious a security challenge is climate change for Africa?
Excerpt: Oli Brown, 2010Battling 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, 2005Nepal—Rethinking conservation strategy in times of conflict
Paper: Oli Brown, 2004Cutting our Losses? Reducing the illegal trade in natural resources, Bangkok
Paper: Oli Brown, 2004
