The climate crisis is putting increasing pressure on already complex conflicts and deepening the issues that drive conflict. But how we respond to a changing climate can also present opportunities to bridge divides. In this video, Irtaza Muhammad and Ms. Noraida Abu explain how the climate crisis interacts with conflict in Kashmir and the Philippines, and the opportunities for peacebuilding.
The global climate crisis, and how humans respond to it, is changing and amplifying the dynamics of current violent conflicts and is contributing to new conflicts emerging. This practice paper presents our understanding of the interaction between climate change, conflict and peace and how peacebuilding can tackle the unique challenges that arise.
Our climate and environment is changing at a rate never seen before in human history. The way we respond to these changes has the potential to accelerate conflict or, if done sensitively, offers opportunities for peacebuilding where few might have existed. Explore our infographic to understand more about how climate change, conflict and peace interact and the vital role peacebuilders can play in ensuring responses to climate change don’t cause more harm.
2023 marks the mid-way point for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure all people enjoy peace and prosperity. There are 17 SDGs in total, but they don’t sit in isolation and without peace, inclusion and equality it simply won’t be possible to achieve these global ambitions.
Conciliation Resources has appointed three new members to its Board of Trustees; Megan Fearon, Henry Raine and Nicholas Griffin KC. The new trustees bring to the board vast expertise in politics, community peacebuilding, law and finance.
Nick is a barrister based in chambers in London, where he works in the fields of public and criminal law and heads up the Inquiries, Inquests and Public Law team. He has experience in charity and public appointments over many years and was until recently trustee of a modern slavery charity and Vice Chair of UK Anti-Doping, which fights doping in sport.
The Central African Republic’s contested elections in 2021 have led to an increasingly polarised political space, making high level political dialogue across conflict divides a highly sensitive and contentious endeavour. Previous national peace efforts focused on high-level political negotiations with little more than symbolic input from communities, faith leaders, women, and youth. This lack of engagement left local conflict drivers and causes largely unaddressed.
Complex conflicts can't be solved through national deals alone - local peace networks need to be supported to address community violence. Despite the existence of local peace mechanisms in communities across the Central African Republic, their input has historically been symbolic and leaves local conflict drivers and causes largely unaddressed.
Megan Fearon is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly and government minister in Northern Ireland.
Henry has forty years experience advising Boards and CEOs on legal, regulatory and financial issues, as well as reputation management and strategy.
