Paola Vesco is an External Associate at PRIO.
Paola Vesco
Associate Researcher
Email: paola.vesco@pcr.uu.se
Research Interests
Paola's main research interests focus on the climate-conflict nexus and she is currently investigating the link between natural resources and conflict.
2018-2019: PhD candidate in Science and Management of Climate
Change at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She is also associated with the CLIMSEC project at PRIO.
Latest publications
All publications
The Results of a Prediction Competition Suggest the Fog of War Can Be Partially Lifted
Popular Article in PRIO Blogs
Moving from Reaction to Action: Anticipating Vulnerability Hotspots in the Sahel
Report - Other
Forecasting fatalities in armed conflict: Forecasts for April 2022-March 2025
Report - Other
Forecasting Fatalities
Report - Other
United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition
Journal Article in International Interactions
Lessons from an escalation prediction competition
Journal Article in International Interactions
Climate variability, crop and conflict: Exploring the impacts of spatial concentration in agricultural production
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
ViEWS 2020: Revising and evaluating the ViEWS political Violence Early-Warning System
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Climate and conflict
Book Chapter in Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development
Latest news
New special issue on climate change and conflict
The Journal of Peace
Research has just published a new special issue on ‘Security implications
of climate change’ (January 2021), guest edited by Nina von Uexkull and Halvard
Buhaug. The special issue contains 12 original research articles and viewpoint
essays, supplemented by an introductory
article by the guest editors that presents a review the state of the art.
This is the second time JPR dedicates a special issue to climate change
and conflict; the first
time was in 2012, edited by Nils Petter Gleditsch. The new issue represents
the most up-to-date collection of studies on the subject. Several articles,
including the introduction, are available as open access.
Read the special issue here.
Workshop on Climate Change and Security
On 27-28 September
2018, the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and PRIO
co-hosted a joint Workshop on Climate Change and Security in Uppsala. The
workshop brought together an international group of twenty scholars and experts
to discuss ongoing and emergent research on a variety of topics related to
climate change and security. The discussions highlighted a variety of topics
including the consequences of resource scarcity, extreme weather events, food
price shocks, land use competition, demographic pressure, and environmental
migration. The program included presentations on 14 projects as well as a public
keynote lecture by Professor W. Neil Adger on sustainable urbanization.
The
workshop was co-organized by Nina von Uexkull and Halvard Buhaug and sponsored
by the PRIO-based research project Climate Variability and
Security Threats (CLIMSEC), funded by the European Research
Council, and the Uppsala-based project on Climate
Change, Food Insecurity and Violent Conflict, funded by the
Swedish Research Council, SIDA, and FORMAS.
