We can decrease the risk of conflict and build peace by implementing projects that improve communities’ ability to adapt to climate change and increase their resilience. For example, through strengthening people’s livelihoods, providing them with alternative livelihoods, or supporting them in strong natural resource management, it is possible not only to address income generation, but […]
Farah Hegazi
I am a researcher in the Climate Change and Risk programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). My research focuses on understanding what the relationship between climate change and violence looks like in different settings, and how interventions to address the effects of climate change can be used to build peace. I mainly focus on the connections between climate change, food security, and conflict, and on climate adaptation and peacebuilding.
