To Understand How Disasters Relate to Conflict and Peace, Reframe the Starting Point

Is the world doomed to be ever-more tumultuous? For years, headlines have suggested that climate change causes or acts as a threat multiplier for violent conflicts. For example, climate change-influenced drought has been labeled a cause of the Syrian conflict and the war in Darfur. Natural hazard-related disasters (“disasters”) like earthquakes that are not related … Continue reading To Understand How Disasters Relate to Conflict and Peace, Reframe the Starting Point