Climate and Security: Bridging the Policy-Academic Gap
U.S. Army Capt. Jill Lynn and Community Animal Health Worker Mohammed Isaq treat a camel during a Veterinary Civic Action Program in Negele, Ethiopia. Photo by U.S. Air Force Capt. Jennifer Pearson
By Dr. Joshua Busby, Center for Climate and Security Senior Research Fellow
In March, I argued that the connections between climate change and security are complex, contingent, and not fully understood. Most of the academic literature has firmly focused on conflict onset with the broader security consequences largely understudied . For policy audiences, the nuance can be frustrating. It is difficult to know what to do with such complexity, other than talk broadly of climate change as a “threat multiplier.”
However, the policy community does not have the luxury of waiting for academics to reach some consensus on climate-conflict links that might never materialize. (more…)
Climate Security Week in Review April 30-May 6
ARMED FORCES RADIO STUDIO, circa 1960’s. McCadden Place, Hollywood, CA. L-R TSgt. Bill Stewart and Carole Landis, Actress
Here are a list of notable headlines and comments on climate and security matters from the past week. If we’ve missed any, let us know.
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@PoliticoPak features an exclusive interview with the inimitable Dr.@AdilNajam on the all-important linkage between climate and security in contemporary times. http://pakistanpolitico.com/interview-with-dr-adil-najam-dean-of-the-pardee-school-of-global-affairs-at-boston-university/ …
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- I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Myanmar Rohingya refugees brace for monsoon deluge in Bangladesh camps –http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43991930 via @MajGenMunir
U.S. and Dutch National Security and Business Leaders Talk Climate Risks
Dr. Marcus King, Hon. John Conger, Hon. Sherri Goodman, Brigadier General Stephen Cheney at Washington, D.C., Hague Roundtable
By Shiloh Fetzek, Senior Fellow for International Affairs
“We have learned through the centuries what it is to live with water, to be flooded from time to time. After the 1953 flood [in the Netherlands] in which 3,000 people died, you learn to not waste that learning opportunity and to share it with others.” – Netherlands Ambassador to the US, Henne Schuwer
The Center for Climate and Security co-hosted a Hague Roundtable on Climate & Security* event in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in collaboration with the Institute for Environmental Security, the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and the Embassy of the Netherlands in the US and IHE Delft. The Roundtable was graciously opened by Ambassador Henne Schuwer, the Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States. (more…)