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  • Climate Security at USAID: (Re)defining an Integrative Issue

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 30, 2022  //  By Daniel Abrahams & Allison Brown

    BULENZI VILLAGE, LWABENGE SUB-COUNTY, KALUNGU DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 26, 2019 - Justine Nitele, 36, fetches water, a task that was difficult and embarassing to undertake before fistula repair surgery.  Justine is a mother of seven and a fistula survivor. Justine got fistula during a problematic labor of her fifth child. She suffered from the condition for three years. She was informed of treatment for fistula by a midwife. Justine attended Kitovu Hospital in 2014 to have treatment under the USAID Fistula Care Plus program. Justine has recovered completely and is now proudly raising awareness of fistula and its dangers as well as how to prevent it amongst the community. Photo by: Carielle Doe

    Climate security is an essential conceptual framework to understand the global interplay of biophysical and socioeconomic forces that threaten our planet. Indeed, it is so important that new currents of science, politics, and advocacy make refining definitions a necessity.

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  • From Rhetoric to Response: Addressing Climate Security with International Development

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 14, 2021  //  By Daniel Abrahams
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    Over the past decade, our understanding of how climate change affects conflict and security has advanced considerably. Yet, how to best address the overlapping challenges of climate change, conflict, and human security remains an open question. In an article published in World Development, I address this topic by examining how climate security discourses inform development policy and, in turn, how the structures of development enable or constrain institutional capacity to address climate security. This research identifies not only the unique barriers the development sector must overcome, but also the ways in which the most common framings of climate change (i.e., as a threat multiplier) limit the scope for policy and programming.

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  • “Land is Now the Biggest Gun”: Climate Change, Conflict, and the Telling Case of Karamoja, Uganda

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 3, 2021  //  By Daniel Abrahams
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    Whether and how climate change drives conflict has driven considerable debate over the past decade. Yet understandings of climate-conflict remain general, and in many respects, unsettled. A recent assessment of potential future directions for climate-conflict research highlights the need to go beyond generalities and deepen insight into the contextual mechanisms that link climate change to conflict. That type of knowledge requires in-depth studies that trace climate-conflict dynamics in particular places and times. In an article recently published in Climate and Development, I examine how climate change alters conflict outcomes and vulnerability in Karamoja, Uganda.  The case offers direct insight into both why the climate-conflict relationship can be so difficult to interpret and also the need to broaden conceptualizations of the climate-conflict relationship. 

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