Crisis, Conflict and Climate: From Immediate Humanitarian Response to Longer-Term Peace and Development Solutions

Oct 15, 2020 - Nov 11, 2020 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, UNDP, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, World Food Programme, and Elman Peace and Human Rights Center
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On 15 October, SIPRI will co-host a virtual event on 'Crisis, conflict and climate: From immediate humanitarian response to longer-term peace and development solutions'. The discussions will highlight key challenges and the work of actors to promote integrated and inclusive responses to climate action and sustaining peace across the humanitarian-development-peacebuilding nexus. The webinar is co-chaired by SIPRI, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the World Food Programme (WFP) and Elman Peace and Human Rights Center.

Moderator

Dan Smith, Director, SIPRI

Discussants

HE Peter Eriksson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, Sweden

Mourad Wahba, Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Ilwad Elman, Director of Programs & Development, Elman Peace and Human Rights Center

Valerie Guarnieri, Assistant Executive Director, World Food Programme

Registration

Please register for the event here.

 Event contact (SIPRI)Alexandra Manolache

Objective

To exchange on experiences, innovation and the lessons learnt from tackling climate-related security risks from the perspective of integrated approaches to the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding nexus.

More efforts are needed to:

  1. Climate-proof peacebuilding and stabilization efforts
  2. Deliver on the Climate Promise and peace-positive adaptation in conflict-affected and fragile states; and
  3. integrated approaches to climate action and sustaining peace.

Room Aim

  1. Theme 1. Addressing climate-related security risks – a perspective from the HDP nexus
    Documenting nexus experiences as they may inform efforts to address climate-related security risks.
  2. Theme 2. Climate finance for sustaining peace
    Examining the contribution of climate finance for sustaining peace - addresses risks, opportunities and co-benefits of climate finance in conflict-affected and fragile states for peace and stability.
  3. Theme 3. Climate security and policy mainstreaming
    A perspective on how Member States understand climate-related security risks and possible direction for climate security mainstreaming.
  4. Theme 4. Climate security and the prevention of violent extremism
    While it is understood that climate change does not directly and in-and-of-itself cause conflict or violent extremism, this discussion draws on the intersection between the root causes of violent extremism and how they intersect with climate vulnerability.

Target Audience

  • The UN system, agencies, funds and programmes (in particular practitioners working on analysis and programming in the field), 
  • Regional/sub-regional organizations, Member States and 
  • NGOs, CSOs, the research community, and other non-state actors working on climate security

Impact

Contributions to: 

  1. CSM study, “climate finance for sustaining peace” and 
  2. UNDP climate security workstream, including policy mainstreaming, climate security nexus and Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), and 
  3. A synthesis report, capturing the results of the proceedings.
     

Partners/Co-Organisers

  • Co-organizers: UNDP, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - the Government of Sweden, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the World Food Programme (WFP) and Elman Peace
  • The multi-stakeholder e-discussions will be moderated and facilitated by a cadre of climate security experts from: Adelphi, Clingendael, Elman Peace, GPPAC, NUPI, ODI, PBSO/PBF, Plataforma CIPO, SIPRI, SSRC, UNDP, UNEP, UNFCCC, UNHCR, WFP and WRI
  • This electronic consultation is powered by three Corporate UNDP's Communities of Practice on Environment, Governance, and Resilience