Fragile Environment, Fragile State: What Role for Conflict-Sensitivity and Peace-Building?
Publisher: Canadian Council for International Co-operation
Author(s): Surendrini Wijeyaratne
Date: 2009
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Prevention, Governance, Livelihoods, Programming
This briefing note is the third in a series of three CCIC background papers for the January 2009 Reclaiming the Commons Policy Roundtable. The papers illustrate environmental justice dimensions in CCIC policy work on: Aid and Development; Trade and Economic Justice; and Peace and Conflict. This paper provides of brief overview of links between environmental injustice and violent conflict and examines how climate change may affect conflict-prone fragile states. It calls for an integration of conflict-sensitive and peace-building approaches into climate change adaptation strategies.