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Conflict Causes

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Water Security in the Polycrisis: Between Negative and Positive Tipping Points

2025 | Frontiers
Jurgen Scheffran

Water security is facing multiple stressors in the emerging polycrisis of the Anthropocene, with a great acceleration challenging planetary boundaries and human livelihoods. In a…

Climate, Peace, and Conflict—Past and Present: Bridging Insights from Historical Sciences and Contemporary Research

2025 | Ambio
Sam White, Dominik Collet, Agustí Alcoberro, Mariano Barriendos, Rudolf Brázdil, Pau Castell, Siyu Chen, Cedric de Coning, Dagomar Degroot, Lukáš Dolák, Stefan Döring, Santiago Gorostiza, Katrin Kleemann, Florian Krampe, Kuan-Hui Lin, Nicolas Maughan, Nat

Concern has risen that current global warming and more frequent extreme events such as droughts and floods will increase conflict around the world. This concern…

15 Key Takeaways from a Decade of Climate Security Reporting

2025 | Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Peter Schwartzstein

For nearly two decades, the connections between climate change and security have been debated and discussed in a diverse array of fora—from universities, think tanks,…

Climate Change and Peacebuilding: Sub-Themes of an Emerging Research Agenda

2024 | International Affairs
Florian Krampe, Dylan O'Driscoll, McKenzie Johnson, Dahlia Simangan, Farah Hegazi, and Cedric de Coning

Climate change is having profound effects on global security and peacebuilding efforts. While existing research has mainly focused on the link between climate change and…

Missing the Target: Examining the Causes of the Conflict on the Afghanistan-Iran Border in May 2023

2025 | ALCIS
David Mansfield

This policy brief shares key findings and implications for policy from a forthcoming XCEPT study on the escalation in violence along the Afghanistan-Iran border on…

The Politics of Eco-Violence: Why Is Conflict Escalating in Nigeria’s Middle Belt?

2022 | Terrorism and Political Violence
Ezenwa E. Olumba

In Nigeria’s Middle Belt, competition for land and other resources has intensified between nomadic Fulani herders and sedentary farmers. What were initially sporadic conflicts over…

Challenges to the Bedouin Traditional Natural Resources Management Systems: The Case of the Bedouin Hadandawa’s of Eastern Sudan

2025 | Sociological Demography Press
Omer A. Hayati, Samir M. Ali Alredaisy, Mohammed Abu Elhassan Elgasim, and Mohamed Elnour Yassen

This research investigates the customary natural resource management system of the Bedouin Hadandawa in Eastern Sudan and identifies the problems it encounters in comparison to…

Destabilization from ‘within’: A “Termite Theory” of Climate’s Pathway to Violence

2025 | Council on Strategic Risks
Peter Schwartzstein

When we talk about climate’s contribution to violence, we generally characterize these stresses as external forces, as destabilizers applying pressure to already ‘messy’ socio-political contexts…

Pastoral Conflict on the Greener Grass? Exploring the Climate-Conflict Nexus in the Karamoja Cluster

2025 | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Rebecca Navarro, Lamis Saleh, and Evelyne Owino

This paper showcases a mixed-methods approach combining informant interviews to highlight the importance of local policies in the debate on the climate-conflict nexus, along with…

Solar Power and Environmental Peacebuilding in South-Central Somalia

2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Ann-Sophie Bohle and Khiera Tarif

In Somalia, widespread energy poverty and a heavy reliance on conventional energy sources are deeply linked to ongoing conflict dynamics. Dependence on firewood and charcoal…

National Interdiciplinary Climate Risk Assessment

2025
Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight

This National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment outlines the risks to Germany’s national security resulting from climate change up until 2040. In accordance with the National…

Environmental Vulnerability and Conflict Occurrence Are Tightly Related

2025 | Nature Communications Earth and Environment
Richard Marcantonio and Sean Field

Conflict and environmental risks are simultaneously on the rise globally, and these two phenomena often interact both in cause and consequence. Findings from recent studies…

Gold and the War in Sudan

2025 | Chatham House
Ahmed Soliman and Suliman Baldo

The gold trade connects Sudan’s civil war to the wider region and highlights the roles that commodities play in perpetuating violent conflict. Even before the…

Water as a Driver of Conflict [Audio]

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
David Michel

Blessed by several major rivers and ample rainfall, Myanmar holds vast hydropower potential. But many key hydropower sites are claimed by ethnic separatist groups in…

Climate, Peace, and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Katongo Seyuba

Local communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) face the combined challenge of climate change and violent conflict, which exacerbates vulnerabilities, poverty, displacement and human insecurity. This SIPRI Insights Paper examines…

Are Wolves the Real Problem? Challenges Faced by Livestock Farmers Living Alongside Wolves in Northwestern Greece

2025 | Sustainability
Maria Petridou and Vassiliki Kati

Mitigating human–wolf conflict is crucial, yet conventional approaches often overlook the broader socioeconomic challenges faced by farming communities. Wolves frequently become scapegoats for deeper rooted…

Peacebuilding Perspectives and Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa (chapter in "Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa")

2025 | Palgrave Macmillan
J. Shola Omotola

This chapter proposes a peacebuilding approach to the management of herder-farmer conflicts in Africa. Specifically, the chapter reflects on the contending perspectives on peacebuilding, notably…

From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding: Exploring Local Dimensions

2025 | Environment and Security
Jan Sändig, Natalia Dalmer, Tobias Ide, and Anselm Vogler

Environmental change and armed conflict are major challenges of the 21st century. Meanwhile, scholars and practitioners increasingly recognize the environment and natural resources as not…

Hidden Depths — Introduction: Water Conflict and Cooperation [Video]

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Doug Weir, Iryna Babanina, and Peter Gleick

In June 2023, Russian troops deliberately destroyed the Kakhovka dam in southeast Ukraine, highlighting an alarming trend: Water resources are facing increasing pressure from armed…

Pastoralism and Women’s Role in Food Security in the Ethiopian Somali Region

2025 | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Francesco Zecca and Saima Saima

Pastoralism has a significant role in food security for ages particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where elevated levels of food insecurity persist. The main aim of…

The (New) M23 Offensive on Goma: Why This Long-Lasting Conflict Is Not Only about Minerals and What Are Its Implications? – Q&A

2025 | International Peace Information Service

The rapid advance of M23 — supported by the Rwandan military (RDF) — in North Kivu has taken most of us by surprise over the…

Beyond Apocalypse: Securitization and Exceptionalism in Environmental Politics

2025 | E-International Relations
Yifei Shao

Environmental issues are frequently depicted as a significant security risk and an apocalyptic catastrophe, threatening all life on Earth. The nascent discourse of a ‘climate…

Cultivating Common Ground on Climate, Peace and Security

2025 | Peace and Security Council Report

The 774th meeting of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) in 2018 discussed the link between climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ and conflicts in…

Natural Resource Dependence and War Nexus: New Insights

2025 | Defence and Peace Economics
Farah al Shami, Mahmoud Arayssi, Walid Marrouch, and Nagham Sayour

This paper examines the channels through which resource dependence affects the probability of war. The authors consider all types of war within a worldwide panel…

Peace, Propaganda, and Natural Resources: The Geoeconomics of Rwandan Peacekeeping in Mozambique and Implications for European and African Regionalism Projects

2023 | Peace Review
Kaitlyn Rabe

Since the end of the genocide in Rwanda, the small nation has solidified its reputation as an economic powerhouse among African countries, as well as…