Meanwhile, he was director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, University College, before he moved on to be the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies until 2007. In 1993, he joined the faculty of University College and the Department of Political Science, progressing to full professor status in 2006. Homer-Dixon began his academic career at the University of Toronto in 1990 where he led several research projects examining links between environmental stress and violence in poor countries. in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, specializing in international relations and conflict theory under the supervision of Hayward Alker.
He then established the Canadian Student Pugwash organization, a forum for discussion of the relationships between science, ethics, and public policy. in political science from Carleton University in Ottawa. In his late teens and early twenties, he worked on oil rigs and in forestry. Homer-Dixon was born and raised in a rural area outside Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of seven books, the most recent being Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril.
He is the founder and Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. Thomas Homer-Dixon (born 1956) is a Canadian political scientist and author who researches threats to global security. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
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