Climate Change and Violent Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Publisher: International Studies Review
Author(s): Kyungmee Kim and Tània Ferré Garcia
Date: 2023
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Disasters, Governance, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
Countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
In this analytic essay, the authors conduct a systematic review of scholarly literature published during the period 1989–2022 and explore the climate-conflict pathways in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Through the systematic review of forty-one peer-reviewed publications in English, the authors identify that society’s ability to cope with the changing climate and extreme weather events is influenced by a range of factors, including preceding government policies that led to the mismanagement of land and water and existing conflict dynamics in the MENA region.