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Showing posts by François Gemenne.
  • In Quest to Understand Climate Change and Conflict, Avoid Simplification

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 18, 2014  //  By François Gemenne
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    As the war in Syria shows no signs of letting up, a recent article in Middle Eastern Studies put forward the hypothesis that the brutal conflict was triggered by government mismanagement of the country’s recent drought, which lasted from 2006 to 2010. It’s a story we’ve heard before.

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  • Responses to JPR Climate and Conflict Special Issue: François Gemenne (Sciences Po)

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 2, 2012  //  By François Gemenne

    The Journal of Peace Research recently devoted a special issue to the work of researchers studying the linkages between climate change and conflict. Special guest editor Nils Petter Gleditsch introduces the issue here.

    If you want a government to address something, make it a defense issue. No need to hold a PhD in political science to know that governments tend to give the highest priority to issues that involve national security interests – one can complain and whine about it, but that’s the way it is.

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