A decade of systematic research on climate change and armed conflict has revealed a
number of interesting patterns but few results that are robust across studies. This essay …

The study of security implications of climate change has developed rapidly from a nascent
area of academic inquiry into an important and thriving research field that traverses …

Climate‐related security challenges are transnational in character, leading states to
increasingly rely on intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)—such as the European Union …

Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although
each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors …

Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes (robust evidence,
high agreement). Human insecurity almost never has single causes, but instead emerges …

It has often been predicted that large numbers of people will be displaced by climate change
and that this will lead to violent conflict. At the core of this prediction is a simple causal model …

A recent Climatic Change review article reports a remarkable convergence of scientific
evidence for a link between climatic events and violent intergroup conflict, thus departing …

This study addresses the question why intergroup conflicts over scarce, renewable
resources in peripheral areas of the global South escalate into violence. In order to do so …

In large parts of the developing world agriculture remains a broad economic sector securing
livelihoods for large parts of the population. In the discourse on security implications of …

Both researchers and policy makers have repeatedly expressed concerns that migration will
enhance conflicts regarding renewable resources in destination areas. This concept is …