Associate Professor at Uppsala University and PRIO associateNina von Uexkull has been awarded the prestigious Oscar Prizefor her work on security implications of climate change.
The Journal of PeaceResearch has just published a new special issue on ‘Security implicationsof climate change’ (January 2021), guest edited by Nina von Uexkull and HalvardBuhaug.
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A new study published in the journal Nature today assesses the role of climate in affecting the risk of armed conflict.
On 27-28 September2018, the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and PRIOco-hosted a joint Workshop on Climate Change and Security in Uppsala.
The project will focus on the causal connection between adverse environmental change and discrete social upheavals, with examples including the ongoing civil war in Syria and the early Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
Severe drought is associated with an increased incidence of armed conflict among agriculture-dependent populations in the least developed states.
On Friday 23 September, Nina von Uexkull was awarded a doctoral degree in peace and conflict research at Uppsala University.