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Title [sv]
Climate Change, Food Insecurity and Violent Conflict
Title [en]
Klimatförändringar, matosäkerhet och väpnad konflikt
Abstract [en]
Policy circles increasingly regard climate change and extreme weather events as a significant threat to social stability and peace, serving as a ‚Äúthreat multiplier‚Äù that interacts with societal, economic and political factors to place communities at risk of violence. Meanwhile, the number of academic studies systematically investigating conditional effects is remarkably sparse. One question particularly understudied¬†is the role of political institutions in shaping societies’ resilience to armed conflict in the wake of climatic stress. What characteristics of state level and local level institutions help societies deal effectively with environmental crises and associated hardships and provide peaceful channels for addressing grievances and resolving disputes? Combining global statistical analysis with in-depth case studies of the Philippines and Mali the proposed project addresses the following specific research priorities: 1) Understand the institutional context under which climate-induced food insecurity increase political violence 2) Understand causal mechanisms and in particular the interaction between armed actors, civilians and governments in response to food insecurity 3) Undertake the first global subnational studies of how climate-induced food insecurity and is related. Doing so, the project will make significant theoretical and empirical contributions to our understanding of which institutions matter most for preventing the adverse societal effects of climate change.
Principal InvestigatorFjelde, Hanne
Coordinating organisation
Uppsala University
Funder
Period
2016-12-01 － 2018-12-31
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:6005Project, id: 2016-06389_VR
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