Many of today's food crises are linked to war and violent conflicts. This paper elaborates four
logics of war that have an impact on food insecurity: a) destruction; b) conflict-induced …

Defense ministries regularly frame climate security in their national security strategies.
Recently,“civil” ministries also begun mentioning climate security. However, they do not …

For many years, studies of peasants and pastoralists have run in parallel, creating mutual
blind-spots. This article argues that, despite contrasting research traditions and conceptual …

Interest in the intersections of environmental issues, peace and conflict has surged in recent
years. Research on the topic has developed along separate research streams, which …

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd<?
pag\break?> livestock—ie transhumant pastoralists—in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant …

Violent clashes between Fulani and Dogon have recently escalated in the Seeno plains in
central Mali. After failing to defeat a “jihadist” insurgency dominated by Fulani, the Malian …

Studies on farmer-herder conflicts in Africa have concentrated on how scarcity of resources,
marginalization, ethno-religious and political factors and institutional and governance …

While previous studies have focused on how political and economic factors fuel herder-
farmer conflicts, there is a dearth of knowledge on how desertification-induced migration …

The 1998 attaThe 1998 attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam attest
to al-Qaeda's durable presence in Africa, yet Islamist-inspired radical organisations in the …

In the last decade, the number of forcibly displaced people increased dramatically globally.
In Africa, conflict has been one of the primary sources of forced displacement. Very few …