Climate Change
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How Increasing Global Military Expenditure Threatens SDG 13 on Climate Action
2025
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
This paper outlines the impact of rising military expenditure on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 13: take urgent action to combat climate change and…
Editorial: Climate Change, Natural Resources, and Human Security in Governance and Society: Vulnerabilites and Adaptation Strategies
2025
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Frontiers
Muhlis Madani, Simon Gray, Mergen Dyussenov, and Farida Tadjine
Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges of our time, affecting every aspect of life on Earth. Among the most significant…
Conflict in a Warming World: How Climate Shocks Impact Rebel Demands and Peace Agreement Outcomes
2025
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PeaceRep, University of Edinburgh, and University of St Andrews
Elisa D’Amico
As climate change becomes more severe and its effects more frequently observed, its impact on global conflict is increasingly important. Climate shocks, acting as threat…
Climate Change Will Exacerbate Land Conflict between Agriculture and Timber Production
2024
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Nature Climate Change
Christopher G. Bousfield, Oscar Morton, and David P. Edwards
Timber and agricultural production must both increase throughout this century to meet rising demand. Understanding how climate-induced shifts in agricultural suitability will trigger competition with…
China’s Climate Diplomacy and Global Environment Challenges: The Conflict between Sustainable Development and National Interests
2025
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East Asia
Deepak Krishnakumar and C. A. Josukutty
Climate change is among the most urgent global issues, with impacts like droughts, rising sea levels, heatwaves, and melting glaciers threatening life on Earth. Every…
Climate and Conflict-induced Child Nutrition Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
2024
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Conflict and Health
Oche Joseph Otorkpa, Abdirizak Mohamud Yusuf, and Abdullahi Tunde Aborode
This commentary explores the intersection between climate, conflict, and child nutrition, highlighting the severe child nutrition crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa exacerbated by climate change and…
Climate, Peace, and Conflict—Past and Present: Bridging Insights from Historical Sciences and Contemporary Research
2025
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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…
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…
Climate, Peace and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
2025
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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…
Climate Change as a Double-Edged Sword: Exploring the Potential of Environmental Recovery to Foster Stability in Darfur, Sudan
2025
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Climate
Abdalrahman Ahmed, Brian Rotich, and Kornel Czimber
The Darfur conflict, which emerged in the early 21st century, represents a multifaceted crisis driven by socio-political and environmental factors, with resource scarcity, exacerbated by…
15 Key Takeaways from a Decade of Climate Security Reporting
2025
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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
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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
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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
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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…
The Environmental Costs of the War in Sudan
2025
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
The ongoing conflict in Sudan has profoundly impacted its environment but these consequences have received little attention. CEOBS has been monitoring the conflict’s environmental dimensions…
From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Neocolonialism, and Environmental Conflicts in Africa
2025
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World Development
Roberto Cantoni, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Elia Apostolopoulou, Julien-François Gerber, Patrick Bond, and Joan Martinez-Alier
Africa stands out as the continent where the legacies of colonialism and the ongoing dynamics of neo- and post-colonialism are felt most profoundly. In its…
The Role of Food Security Projects in Enhancing Climate Adaptation among Yemeni Women
2025
Rehab Al-Sanabani and Saleh Huomid
This study explores the impact of climate change on food security among women in Yemen, focusing on the governorates of Dhamar, Hadhramout, and Abyan. Using…
Challenges to the Bedouin Traditional Natural Resources Management Systems: The Case of the Bedouin Hadandawa’s of Eastern Sudan
2025
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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…
Climate Change and Gender-based Violence in Colombia: Peacebuilding, Feminism and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
2025
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Handbook on Gender and Security
Natalia Urzola and María Paula González Espinel
Climate change's devastating effects exacerbate pre-existing conditions of vulnerability, including gender-based violence. For historically marginalized groups in Colombia (i.e., Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, peasants, women,…
Climate Change Exacerbated Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Role of the Feminist Foreign Policy
2024
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Environmental Policy and Law
Moumita Manda
Feminist foreign policy (FFP) ensures the representation and participation of women both nationally and internationally. Initially, it aimed to focus on some special areas relating…
From Conflict to a Climate Future: Unraveling the Nexus between Warfare and Environmental Degradation
2025
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Sustainable Futures
Musrat Nazir, Imran Khan, Syed Afzal Moshadi Shah, Talat Islam, Kamran Azam, Imran Naseem, and Khalid Zaman
The natural environment in conflict zones is often severely impacted by warfare, with long-lasting effects on water resources and ecosystems. The ongoing conflict between Ukraine…
Destabilization from ‘within’: A “Termite Theory” of Climate’s Pathway to Violence
2025
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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
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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…
Somalia: IPC Acute Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Snapshot | January - June 2025
2025
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Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Nearly 3.4 million people or 17 percent of Somalia’s population are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC AFI Phase 3 or…
Solar Power and Environmental Peacebuilding in South-Central Somalia
2025
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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…
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…
Building Resilience through Climate Action: Gender, Peace, and Security in Sri Lanka
2025
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Toda Peace Institute
Janani Vivekananda
Sri Lanka is at a crossroads. The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly visible, with erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts, and rising sea levels disrupting…
Climate, Peace, and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
2025
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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…
Pioneering Solutions: Climate Finance, Gender Equity, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
2024
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Wilson Center
Sarah B. Barnes, Claire Doyle, Deekshita Ramanarayanan, and Lauren Herzer Risi
A warming world is leading to new challenges for communities and countries around the globe. The significant impacts of climate change on global health, and…