Insecurity is plaguing north-western Nigeria, due to persistent herder-farmer tensions, rising crime and infiltration by Islamist militants. Federal and state...

The scope of national security is expanding beyond violent threats to encompass a broader array of dangers. In an article for World Politics Review, CFR's...

Although there is no causality nor direct and automatic link between climate change and conflict, we can see that climate change can intensify conflict drivers...

In the central Sahel, states are mobilising to combat the impact of climate change as way of reducing conflict. But to respond suitably to growing insecurity...

How might a single threat, even one deemed unlikely, spiral into an evolving global crisis which challenges the foundations of global security, economic...

During the past two weeks, Antigua & Barbuda, Nicaragua and Panama ratified the Escazú Agreement, giving a major boost to the unprecedented and innovative Latin...

The mission of the Munich Security Conference is to “address the world’s most pressing security concerns”. These days, that means climate security: climate...

If you have even a passing familiarity with the climate and security literature, you undoubtedly have come across the phrase “threat multiplier.” The phrase...