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Monday, 14 Jun 2021

Podcast: Climate Change = More Asylum Seekers? It's Not That Simple

Listen to this podcast discussing a new article in Nature Communications on What predicts asylum migration flows to Europe, by Sebastian Schutte, Jonas Vestby, Jørgen Carling and Halvard Buhaug. The podcast features a converation reflecting on the idea that climate change = more asylum seekers? But can it be that simple?

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Thursday, 6 May 2021

Important dialogue with Norwegian research communities about the UN Security Council

As part of the newly established Dialogue Forum for Norway's membership in the United Nations Security Council 2021-2022, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in collaboration with PRIO, and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) are organizing a series of thematic roundtable meetings about current issues on the Council's agenda. The first meeting took place on April 29^th and the topic was global health and security.

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Thursday, 28 Jan 2021

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.

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2022

Projecting long-term armed conflict risk: An underappreciated field of inquiry?

By Sophie P. de Bruin, Jannis M. Hoch, Nina von Uexkull, Halvard Buhaug, Jolle Demmers, Hans Visser & Niko Wanders in Global Environmental Change

Journal Article

2021

Vicious circles: Violence, vulnerability, and climate change

By Halvard Buhaug & Nina von Uexkull in Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Journal Article

2021

Climate mitigation policies and the potential pathways to conflict: Outlining a research agenda

By Elisabeth Gilmore & Halvard Buhaug in WIREs Climate Change

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Thursday, 6 May 2021

Important dialogue with Norwegian research communities about the UN Security Council

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 26 Nov 2021

Good Reads: Resource Sovereignty

Green Curses research project member Dr. John Andrew McNeish, Professor at the Faculty of Landscape and Society at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, has just published two books on contestations over natural resources. The first book, a monograph authored by McNeish and entitled Sovereign Forces: Everyday Challenges to Environmental ...

Can climate variability spark conflict?

By EU Research in EU Research

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Monday, 14 Jun 2021

Podcast: Climate Change = More Asylum Seekers? It's Not That Simple

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 22 Nov 2021

Climate Resilience and Conflict: Multi-stakeholder Partnerships As A Way Forward?

As world leaders convened in Glasgow for the 26th annual Conference of Parties (COP 26) in hopes of accelerating action on the Paris Agreement and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the correlation between climate change and conflict is receiving more attention. In recent years, there has been ...

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 29 Jul 2021

Obscuring the True Causes of Conflicts

Is Norway’s mission on the Security Council to reinforce the myth that climate change is a root cause of violent conflicts? This will make finding lasting solutions more difficult. As a new member of the UN Security Council, Norway has identified climate security as one of four key thematic priorities ...

Podcast Episode

Thursday, 6 May 2021

39- Climate Change = More Asylum Seekers? It's Not That Simple.

Five years after the European migration and refugee crisis, displacement remains a pressing issue worldwide. According to the UNHCR, the global number of forcibly displaced people passed 80 million during 2020 – the highest estimate ever recorded. Several factors have contributed to this increase, including a rise in political violence and instability, and extreme weather events. But when it comes to calculating how many might be moving due to climate change, there are challenges. Scientific literature hasn't provided a satisfactory answer. In a new article for Nature Communications, Sebastian Schutte, Jonas Vestby, Jørgen Carling and Halvard Buhaug seek to fill this gap and address factors for asylum migration to the European Union.

You can find the original study here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22255-4

Or you can read a blog post about it here: https://blogs.prio.org/ClimateAndConflict/2021/04/can-the-effects-of-climatic-change-predict-asylum-migration-to-europe/