In Conversation with the Former President of Costa Rica: Carlos Alvarado Quesada
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In Conversation with the Former President of Costa Rica: Carlos Alvarado Quesada

The impact of small state diplomacy on climate migration

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About the Event:

From May 2018 to May 2022, Carlos Alvarado Quesada served as the 48th President of the Republic of Costa Rica. Under his leadership, Costa Rica contributed to global efforts to combat climate change and defended human rights, democracy, and multilateralism. President Quesada was influential in his commitment to small state solutions to address climate change and the forced migration that results. Now a Professor of Practice of Diplomacy in the Graduate School of Global Affairs at Tufts University, Quesada joins Chicago Humanities to discuss climate migration and the diplomatic opportunities and challenges for small states as negotiators of climate policies with Hari M. Osofsky, dean and Myra and James Bradwell Professor Environmental Law and Culture at Northwestern University.


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Carlos Alvarado Quesada

Carlos Alvarado Quesada

Former President of Costa Rica

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Hari M. Osofsky

Hari M. Osofsky

Dean and Professor

Hari M. Osofsky is dean and Myra and James Bradwell Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Professor of...

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