Disasters
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Conflicts and Trends to Watch in 2026
2026
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Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Jessica Anania, Vicka Heidt, Anna Tuohey, and Jessica M. Smith
Entering 2026, the global security landscape is defined by record-high levels of armed conflict, democratic backsliding, geopolitical fragmentation, and an accelerating climate crisis—dynamics unfolding alongside…
L'adaptation au changement climatique : Vers une transformation structurelle du secteur de l'aide internationale
2026
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Groupe URD
Jérôme Faucet
If current trends continue, the world is on course for a temperature increase of almost +2.9°C by the end of the century, resulting in more…
Climate-Related Disasters and Temperature Extremes Are Not Associated with Conflict Risk in Pacific Island Countries
2026
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Environment and Security
Tobias Ide, Ore Koren, and Luke Derrick
Concerns about climate change and conflict are ubiquitous. Systematic research on the climate-conflict nexus in the Pacific is lacking, despite the region’s high vulnerability to…
Climate Risks and Agricultural Changes in Conflict-Affected Myanmar
2026
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International Food Policy Research Institute
Bart Minten, Joanna van Asselt, Zin Wai Aung, and Joseph Goeb
Climate change and conflict are increasingly shaping livelihoods in Myanmar, with agricultural households among the most directly affected. Yet, empirical evidence on how these stressors…
Navigating Climate, Conflict, and Migration: Insights from Ethiopia and the East and Horn of Africa
2025
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International Organization for Migration
Victor Villa, Brenda Chepngetich, Christopher Zapp, and Melissa Branca Carvalho Magalhaes
This report examines the intricate relationship between climate, human security and migration in Ethiopia and the broader East and Horn of Africa region, with the…
Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: The Urban Climate-Conflict Nexus amid the Global Housing Crisis
2025
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UN-Habitat
Our world faces a convergence of crises: accelerating climate change, escalating conflicts, and rapid urbanization with extensive housing and basic service inadequacy. 2024 was the…
UNMISS Engagement with Floods
2025
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UN Mission in South Sudan
This publication examines UNMISS's strategic engagement with climate-induced flooding in 2024, framing this involvement as a practical operationalization of its core mandate to protect civilians…
Conflict and Flooding Are Driving Deteriorating Acute Food Insecurity
2025
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Famine Early Warning System Network
This Key Message Update provides a high-level analysis of current acute food insecurity conditions and any changes to FEWS NET's latest projection of acute food…
Pathways to Instability: A Synthetic Framework to Parse Connections between Water and Conflict
2025
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Environment and Security
Penny Beames, Kate Brauman, Patrick Keys, Melissa McCracken, Penelope Mitchell, Sarah Rosengaertner, Susanne Schmeier, Aaron Wolf, and Michael Gremillion
While water has long been an object and mechanism of conflict, predicting water conflict remains a challenge. Little evidence supports strong, direct causal, or statistical…
Climate, Environment and Human Security in Brazil: Response Landscape and Leadership Opportunities
2025
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adelphi global
Raquel Munayer, Laís Clemente Pereira, and Héctor Camilo Morales Muñoz
Brazil is navigating a complex landscape shaped by the ongoing impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, with significant long-term implications for human security and…
Climate Shocks, Household Food Security and Welfare in Afghanistan
2025
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Food Policy
Hayatullah Ahmadzai and Oliver Morrissey
Exposure to natural disasters in Afghanistan, notably flooding and other shocks exacerbated by climate change, poses a growing concern given the vulnerability of households to…
Participatory Approaches to Conflict, Climate Change and Environment: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa
2025
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Arab Reform Initiative and Robert Bosch Stiftung
Sammy Kayed, Shivan Fazil, Hussam Hussein, Asma Khalifa, Abeer Butmeh, Abdalftah Hamed Ali, Sarine Karajerjian, Ahmad Al-wadaey, and Tobias Zumbraegel
The MENA countries have been confronting profound and far-reaching climate shocks. Experts widely agree that human-driven activity intensely shapes escalating climate stressors—including extreme weather events—dwindling…
The Looming Disaster: Mass Migrations, Water Wars & Global Instability [Video]
2025
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WION
A new global report warns that over 1.2 billion people could be displaced by 2050 due to ecological disasters driven by climate change. Regions like…
Germany's National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment
2025
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Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight, adelphi research, BND, and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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…
Sustainability amid Conflict: Gaza's Environmental, Social, and Economic Struggles
2025
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Journal of Environmental Management
Abdo Hassoun
The recent war on Gaza (October 2023–January 2025) has led to profound environmental degradation, social instability, and economic collapse, posing substantial obstacles to sustainable development.…
Mutual Aid in Times of Crisis. Case Study: Australia
2025
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Groupe URD
Claire McLisky and Emma Pittaway
This report considers the forms, characteristics and dynamics of mutual aid, and the relationship between mutual aid and official responses, in Greater Uki, located in…
L'Entraide en Temps de Crise : Étude de Cas Tchad
2025
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Groupe URD
Cécile Petitdemange and Aline Hubert
This case study was chosen because Chad is one of the most vulnerable countries and the least prepared for climate change, and is very frequently…
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa
2024
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START: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (University of Maryland)
Salma Bouziani, Steve S. Sin, Madeline Romm, and Louis M. Wasser
While the consequences of climate change and climate security issues have global ramifications, certain regions bear a disproportionate burden of extreme impacts due to geographical…
MiRCH Update: Military Responses to Climate Disasters across the United States
2025
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Center for Climate and Security
Tom Ellison
The Center for Climate and Security’s (CCS) Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker now includes 501 deployments in 97 countries between June 2022 and…
The Economic Consequences of Climate Change for Afghanistan: Losses, Projections … and Pathways to Mitigation
2025
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Afghanistan Analysts Network
Mohammad Assem Mayar
Despite contributing minimally to global emissions, Afghanistan faces escalating economic and social crises from climate change. Climate shocks, such as from floods, droughts, landslides, avalanches…
Environmental Displacement and Political Instability: Evidence from Africa
2024
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Journal of Peace Research
Angela Chesler
Does environmental displacement provoke political instability? Though migration has long been considered an intermediary in the causal path between environmental change and political upheaval, the…
Fires as Collateral or Means of War: Challenges of Environmental Peacebuilding in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
2024
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Ecology and Society
Lina Eklund and Pinar Dinc
The patterns, frequency and intensity of vegetation fires are often studied from biophysical perspectives, outlining the impacts of climate, vegetation, and proximity to human settlements…
De-escalation and Diplomacy: Disasters as Drivers of Reduced Conflict Risks in the Indo-Pacific
2025
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Australian Journal of International Affairs
Tobias Ide, Ali Hayes, Indah Larasati, and Chloe Canavan
Interest in the impact of disasters on conflict risks is burgeoning. This is particularly the case for the Indo-Pacific region, which is highly vulnerable to…
Climate as a Catalyst for Global Conflicts [Audio]
2025
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Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University
Peter Schwartzstein
Climate change isn’t just an environmental threat—it’s becoming a catalyst for conflict.
Over the past decade, rising temperatures, water shortages, and other environmental disruptions have fueled…
Wildfire Analyses in Iraqi Kurdistan
2025
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PAX International
Linda Rasheed, Wim Zwijnenburg, and Stephan Preinstorfer
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has faced a concerning rise in wildfires in recent years. These fires pose both acute and longterm threats to communities,…
Climate Security in the Era of Uncertainty [Video]
2025
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Observer Research Foundation
From unprecedented rains and floods stretching from the Middle East to China, destructive heat waves across southern Asia, wildfires across Western countries, the planet is…
Co-operation in North-west Azerbaijan and Eastern Georgia
2024
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and adelphi
Raquel Munayer, Beatrice Mosello, and Lukas Ruttinger
This scoping study aims to assess the current context of landscape fire management and wildfire risk reduction in two pilot municipalities: Dedoplistskaro in Georgia and…
Why Early Warnings Are Critical for Climate Action and Conflict Prevention
2024
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United States Institute of Peace
Brittany Croll and Cassandra Schneider
Amid a changing climate, understanding the interplay between extreme environmental events and conflict is only growing more important. Droughts, floods and other natural disasters can…
Swathi Veeravalli on the Importance of Climate Security for US Strategic Interests [Audio]
2024
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New Security Broadcast
Lauren Risi and Swathi Veeravalli
In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP Program Director Lauren Risi sits down with Swathi Veeravalli on her last day as the Director for…
Climate Change and Human Security Implications for Humanitarian, Development, Disaster and Climate Risk Management in Mozambique
2024
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Overseas Development Institute and Center for Climate and Security
As part of the project ‘Catalysing cohesive action on climate and security’, ODI, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) and the CGIAR FOCUS Climate…