This DIIS Working Paper argues that advancing the climate security agenda requires approaches that integrate climate adaptation and finance into a ‘peace...
Over the past 20 years, the northern regions of Uganda, including the West Nile sub-region, have experienced an increase in average temperature and heatwaves...
This paper frames WFP’s programming in climate resilience, livelihoods and food security within the climate security discourse. It aims to offer insights into...
The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been the site of decades of conflict between the Congolese army and nonstate armed...
Oversimplifications of the pastoralist-conflict equation and a lack of understanding of pastoralist systems and the way they are governed has led to...
The purpose of this Toolkit is to provide funding agencies, diplomatic staff, and aid practitioners with strategic guidance on how to design interventions to...
This study explores the interaction(s) between climate change, displacement and urbanisation. The objective is to answer a dual question, in the context of the...
The relationships between West Africa's changing climate, disruption of livelihoods, deepening food insecurity, and social unrest and violence are increasingly...
WATCH: Climate change is predicted to increase conflict in the coming decades. In many places, this is already the case. In Marsabit, northern Kenya, prolonged...
To explore dialogue as a viable option in preventing and countering violent extremism in the Lake Chad Basin region, it is important to consult local...
This report assesses how peacebuilding programming can produce adaptation benefits, so that interventions simultaneously contribute to reduced intercommunal...
WATCH: Lake Chad is caught in a conflict trap. It is experiencing one of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies with an estimated 10.7 million people in...
The so-called Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group was established in October 2015 with the inaugural meeting of the V20 Ministers of Finance at the Climate Vulnerable...
WATCH: UN Environment in Sudan and partners organize the “Derma Conference” to help facilitate dialogue over shared natural resources to promote equitable use...
WATCH: The amount of water in Lake Chad (Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon) has decreased significantly. The drought that started in 1973 has affected millions...
WATCH: It cannot be overstated how valuable regional cooperation is for tackling the security dimensions of climate change. Ayan Mahamoud, Platform Coordinator...
WATCH: As conflicts over natural resources play out in Mali, spillover effects can be felt throughout the Sahel region. Shreya Mitra, Adviser for Climate Change...
WATCH: In this video, Henk-Jan Brinkman, Chief of Policy, Planning and Application of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), argues that one...
WATCH: The connections between climate change and the risk of violent conflict have become increasingly clear. Development aid organizations also take into...