T homas Homer-Dixon (born 1956 in Victoria, British Columbia) holds the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto,
and is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
In the fall of 2008, Homer-Dixon will leave the University of Toronto
to take an appointment as a CIGI Chair of Global Systems Studies at the
Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario. KMO invited him to the C-Realm to discuss his book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization.
Thomas Homer-Dixon holds the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at University College, University of Toronto.
He was born in Victoria, British Columbia and received his B.A. in
political science from Carleton University in 1980 and his Ph.D. from
MIT in international relations and defense and arms control policy in
1989. He then moved to the University of Toronto to lead several
research projects studying 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 books include The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (Knopf, Island Press, 2006), which won the 2006 National Business Book Award, The Ingenuity Gap (Knopf, 2000), which won the 2001 Governor General's Non-fiction Award, and Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (Princeton University Press, 1999), which won the Caldwell Prize of the American Political Science Association.
He lives in a small town in a rural area outside of Toronto, Canada, with his wife Sarah and son Benjamin.
Thomas appears in episode 36: Locus of Agency |
