The Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law has been intensively studying state fragility for the last fifteen years. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation studies nations where state fragility co-occurs with climate risks. The result has been a host of nation-level reports, maps, datasets, publications, presentations, courses, and news reports on …

The Social Science Research Council is an independent international non-profit research organization almost a century old. SSRC is committed to fostering innovation, investing in the future, working internationally and democratically, combing urgency and patience, and keeping standards high. SSRC also publishes valuable surveys, one of which covers the field of climate and security. The climate and security literature review was …

The University of Agder’s Rector Sunniva Whittaker and Dean of Social Sciences Anne Halvorsen welcomed an international group of researchers to the Climate and Conflict Conference in Kristiansand, Norway at the end of September, 2019. The conference focused on the social impacts of climate. This is under-researched territory because it tends to fall into the gap between climate science and …

Did you know that climate change is now producing almost twice as many refugees as war? Did you realize that many conflicts are indirectly made worse by climate change, because it threatens critical resources such as food supplies and clean water, and because it exacerbates public health challenges such as mosquito-borne illnesses and viral infections? Here’s the good news: we …