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December 4, 2020[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Surveying the Arctic [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]Opportunity and activity are burgeoning in the Arctic. And a new initiative –The Arctic Infrastructure Inventory (AII) – aims to track all the projects happening there. The inventory already boasts nearly 8,000 projects (with thousands more to come), offering a tool and resource for all regional stakeholders.


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Women and Work: The Impact of Gender-Based Violence Seawomen of Iceland
“You have to have a long breath to change things,” observed author Rana Husseini. “And you have to lobby the government [at] the right time and in a very smart and strategic way.” In conducting her research, Margaret Willson relates that it often took “a couple cups of coffee” and some persistent questioning in conversations to find women who made fishing their trade in Iceland.


[link removed] [[link removed]] Battling Gender-Based Violence
Wilson Center discussions on national security, domestic violence, and the workplace have marked the United Nations’ 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV). Visit our events page to see what’s happened and watch upcoming programs on protections for women and the connection between GBV and war crimes.


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Launching the Arctic Infrastructure Inventory: A Resource to Inform Arctic Economic Development Countering Domestic Violence: A Talk with Leslie Morgan Steiner
Heidar Gudjonsson, Chairman of the Arctic Economic Council, said that a lack of tangible information has created “all these misconceptions, all these misunderstandings” about the region. “I was very fortunate… that the key people in my life knew enough about the complex dynamics of abuse to understand what I was going through,” said author Leslie Morgan Steiner.


Watch & Listen
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Wildlife Trade: From Tiger King to COVID-19 How to Distribute 7 Billion Vaccines
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Upcoming Events
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The Plastic First Mile: Closing the Loop on Plastic Waste in Asia [[link removed]]December 7, 2020 // 8am – 9:15am
Asia's Expectations for the Biden Administration [[link removed]]December 9, 2020 // 10am – 11:30am
The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About: A Conversation with Christina Lamb [[link removed]]December 10, 2020 // 4pm – 5pm
U.S.-Russia Relations in the Biden Administration [[link removed]]December 11, 2020 // 1pm – 2pm
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Wilson In the News
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I Helped Negotiate the Iran Nuclear Deal. Here's How Joe Biden Could Revive It (Time) [[link removed]]
Baroness Catherine Ashton writes that “there will be resistance to further ‘asks’ of Iran — especially if the U.S. is not offering more in return.”
The China-Australia Standoff (The Big Picture - Sirius XM) [[link removed]]
Australia’s call for an independent scientific study of COVID-19’s origins may have been a final straw for Beijing, says Robert Daly: “Since then, China has been hitting Australia very very hard” on trade and in the media.
Climate Change and Nuclear Policy Are Dangerously Disconnected: Biden Can Fix That (Morning Consult) [[link removed]]
“When viewed together, it’s clear that climate and nuclear trends are converging to reshape the world order,” writes Sherri Goodman.


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