Ken Conca

{{Short description|American academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Ken Conca''' is an American professor of international relations specializing in global environmental politics,<ref name="Wilson">{{cite web |title=Ken Conca |url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/ken-conca |website=www.wilsoncenter.org |access-date=8 May 2025 |language=en |date=17 August 2016}}</ref> including peacebuilding, water politics and governance, and the United Nations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ken Conca |url=https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/person/ken-conca/ |website=Earth System Governance |access-date=8 May 2025}}</ref> Since 2010, he has worked at the Department of Environment, Development & Health, at the School of International Service of the American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of multiple award winning books,<ref>{{cite web |title=Ken Conca {{!}} SESYNC |url=https://www.sesync.org/about-us/people/ken-conca |website=www.sesync.org |access-date=8 May 2025}}</ref> and has received numerous awards for his teaching and service at American University. He is also known for helping to initiate the environmental peacebuilding field, together with co-author Geoff Dabelko.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hegazi |first1=Farah |title=Environmental Peacebuilding and Sustainable Peace |url=https://peacenews.com/environmental-peacebuilding-and-sustainable-peace/ |website=Peace News Network |access-date=8 May 2025 |date=20 July 2023}}</ref>

== Education ==

Conca studied geological Science at Brown University, and completed his undergraduate degree in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |title=Class of 1982 |url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/classes/class-of-1982 |website=www.brownalumnimagazine.com |access-date=8 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref> He then obtained an MS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor |url=https://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/conca.cfm |website=American University |access-date=8 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==

* 2003 Harold & Margaret Sprout Award of the International Studies Association for his co-authored book "Confronting Consumption"<ref name="HMSA">{{cite web |title=Harold & Margaret Sprout Award |url=https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Awards/Harold-Margaret-Sprout |website=www.isanet.org |access-date=8 May 2025}}</ref> * 2006 Chadwick F. Alger Prize of the International Studies Association for his book "Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building"<ref>{{cite web |title=Chadwick Alger Prize [IO] |url=https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Awards/Chadwick-Alger |website=www.isanet.org}}</ref> * 2006 Harold & Margaret Sprout Award for his book "Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building"<ref name="HMSA" /> * 2006 Elmer Plischke Faculty Research Award in Political Science{{citation needed|date=May 2025}} * 2018 Al-Moumin Award (and distinguished lecture) together with Geoff Dabelko "for their outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding" from the Environmental Peacebuilding Association<ref>{{cite web |title=Al-Moumin Lectures - Environmental Peacebuilding |url=https://www.environmentalpeacebuilding.org/events/al-moumin-lectures/show/eventitem-467 |access-date=8 May 2025 |date=6 June 2024 |archive-date=6 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606032531/https://www.environmentalpeacebuilding.org/events/al-moumin-lectures/show/eventitem-467 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> * 2021 Grawemeyer Award winner for "Ideas Improving World Order" for his book "An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance"<ref>{{cite web |title=UN must rethink its approach to environmental problems |url=http://grawemeyer.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/UN-must-rethink-its-approach-to-environmental-problems.pdf |website=Grawemeyer Announcement Ken Conca |access-date=8 May 2025}}</ref>

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== External links ==

* {{google scholar id|pruqNdMAAAAJ}} * [https://www.american.edu/uploads/docs/concacvupdatedseptember2024.pdf Ken Conca's] Curriculum Vitae * [https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/03/thought-leaders-and-frontline-workers-in-environmental-peacebuilding-an-oral-history-dr-ken-conca-and-dr-geoff-dabelko/ Podcast interview] on environmental peacebuilding, with Ken Conca and Geoff Dabelko

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