This DIIS Working Paper argues that advancing the climate security agenda requires approaches that integrate climate adaptation and finance into a ‘peace...
Rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and more extreme weather events as a result of climate change pose existential challenges to Southern...
The task for governments in the Sahel region of Africa is significant. They must tackle the persistent problem of extremism, which is being further complicated...
The Climate Risk Profile for Eastern Africa provides forward-looking data on the climate in Eastern Africa with the goal of supporting resilience-oriented short...
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...
The Sahel faces mounting human security and development challenges due to the complex interplay of diverse and growing risks in the region, including climate...
Just over two years ago, Christophe Hodder was selected as the first UN Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia. Since then, he had spearheaded a...
Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services...
The war in Ukraine holds a hard lesson about our failure to face up to the climate crisis. We must heed lessons of the recent past and rise up to meet the...
The chapter 'Canada: Reframing a well-established partnership' in the book 'European Foreign Policy in a Decarbonising World', examines Canada and EU-Canada...
The objective of this report is to support the UN Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) in promoting data-driven and evidence-based approaches in the Sahel...
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...
United States President Joe Biden gathered world leaders on 22 April 2021 to raise climate ambition ahead of COP26 climate summit in the UK. For Latin America...
“The more the United States can get itself back on track, the better position it is in to exercise climate leadership,” says Sue Biniaz, a member of Special...
The relationships between West Africa's changing climate, disruption of livelihoods, deepening food insecurity, and social unrest and violence are increasingly...
Extreme weather events such as droughts and floods are expected to become more severe under future climate conditions. This implies a concern for policymakers...
The United States is at a critical juncture in its future climate policy directions. Biden’s electoral victory and the appointment of former Secretary of State...
The pandemic and racial justice protests call for justice and crisis preparedness – an opportunity also to act on climate change. Successfully taking advantage...
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...