In “Africa’s smallest war,” both Kenya and Uganda lay claim to Migingo Island, a tiny island in the waters of Lake Victoria. While the claims are over the...
WATCH: The "Sustainability, Stability and Security" (3S) Initiative is an intergovernmental action launched by Morocco and Senegal to address the root causes of...
WATCH: In this video, experts look into how climate change influences Mali's down spiralling security situation and suggest an approach directed towards...
Using a progressive environmental security concept can help to tackle a range of environmental issues related to armed conflict, such as deforestation, loss of...
Human activity has caused the temperature of the Earth and its atmosphere to rise by about 1°C above pre-industrial levels, triggering fundamental changes to...
Climate change threatens conflict and poverty in the Arab region, according to the UN Development Programme (UNDP). In a report published last week, the agency...
Both those who argue for and those who refute climate-conflict links draw on Darfur to support their case. New analysis of political bias behind the...
WATCH: In the last 50 years, the surface of Lake Chad shrank by 90%. Furthermore, Boko Haram terrorizes the local population. In this clip, Mamadou Diop, expert...
WATCH: Climate change plays an exacerbating role in the armed conflict in Iraq. In this video, Iraqi experts explain how climate change impacts such as...
Iraqi Kurdistan is blessed with abundant water resources, but these resources are under increasing stress. Changing demographics, dam building in neighboring...
WATCH: Security in the African continent is severly undermined by climate-related impacts such as droughts, floods and conflicts for resources. However, deep...
On 22 March 2018, the UN Security Council held a discussion on the causes of conflict and human suffering in the Lake Chad Basin. Chitra Nagarajan, adelphi’s...
A recent article in Nature Climate Change has spurred a new chapter in the lively scholarly debate over the potential relationship between climate change and...
Cape Town is dealing with one of the biggest climate change-linked water crises to face a modern city. This should serve as our wake-up call: we must transition...
The Lake Chad crisis is becoming one of the worst humanitarian disasters since World War II, and climate change is considered one of the drivers. In the four...
As the so-called Islamic State loses control over the areas it once occupied, it is leaving behind a toxic legacy. The initial findings of a scoping mission...
The Syrian crisis and the multi-year drought that preceded it have become emblematic of contemporary discussions about the possible security implications of...