"Climate Change, Disasters, and Armed Conflicts with Tobias Ide, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Murdoch University."
"Climate Change, Disasters, and Armed Conflicts with Tobias Ide, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Murdoch University."
The number and impact of disasters like droughts, earthquakes, floods, and storms is rising globally, among others due to climate change. As a consequence, disasters are playing a key role in academic, public, and policy debates about environmental security and the climate-conflict nexus. While extensive research has studied how disasters shape the risk of armed conflict onset, scholars and policymakers know little about the impact of disasters on armed conflict dynamics. In other words: How do conflict parties react if a disaster strikes a civil war zone? The speaker will present insights from a comprehensive study on this question, drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from 31 civil wars in 21 countries. Among others, he finds that disasters open opportunities for rebel groups, that disasters can also facilitate conflict de-escalation, and that situational (rather than structural) factors shape the responses of conflict parties.
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LOCATION:Room 350, 1 Brattle Square #3, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20231005T161500Z DTEND:20231005T180000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR