Climate Change and Conflict: Conflict-Sensitive Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Publisher: The African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes
Author(s): Pius Yanda and Salomé Bronkhorst
Date: 2011
Topics: Climate Change, Programming
In preparation for COP17 (17th Conference of the Parties) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) in Durban, held a two-day expert seminar to identify issues and recommendations for ensuring that adaptation to climate change is conflictsensitive. Practitioners and scientists presented new research on the linkages between climate change and conflict in Africa, and analysed various tools, policies and approaches to ensure that conflicts arising from climate change are addressed and climate change adaptation measures are conflict-sensitive.