Call for papers: Climate Change, Social Stress and Violent Conflict
The international conference Climate Change, Social Stress and Violent Conflict, will be organized at the Klima Campus at Hamburg University, November 19-20, 2009. The workshop aims to bring together national and international experts to explore and discuss main elements of the current “state of the art” in terms of knowledge on security implications and conflict potential of climate change. Furthermore participants will explore research needs, both with respect to problem analysis and methodologies. Besides providing a snapshot of the current debate, it aims at building connections among individuals and research groups that can provide a basis for establishing an international network on climate security and conflict.
These are some of the guiding questions for the conference:
- What are the major causal chains between climate change and violent conflict, and what is the empirical basis for these linkages, revisiting previous assessments of environmental conflict?
- Which approaches, methods and theories are helpful for the analysis of the links between climate change, social stress and violent conflict?
- Is it adequate to call climate change a threat to national or international security?
- Are broader security conceptions (such as environmental or human security) useful for evaluating the violence risks of climate change?
- What is the likelihood, potential damage and resulting risk for violent conflict of water and food scarcity, mass migrations and natural disasters induced by climate change?
Deadline for submission of abstracts is August 31, 2009. Send abstracts of maximum one page to: ClimateSecurity@uni-hamburg.de (Subject line: Abstract Climate Conflict Conference). The conference organizer is KlimaCampus, Universität Hamburg.
