Report Launch – Climate, Peace and Security Assessment: Mali

Oct 7, 2022 | Geneva Center of Security Policy
Geneva, Switzerland

The launch of the new Climate, Peace, and Security Assessment: Mali, to be presented at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), in collaboration with UN University Centre’s for Policy Research (UNU-CPR) and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (GPP), by the authoring institution, adelphi.



Since the suspension of French and German operations, the trajectory of Mali’s conflict has once again been diverted. Meanwhile, climate change is putting additional pressure on natural resource-based livelihoods, limiting the ability of people to adapt. Political and security developments, poor governance and marginalisation drive insecurity and reduce state presence and service provision even further. Simultaneously, recession, inequality, insecurity, corruption, and social exclusion make livelihoods difficult to sustain. While there is growing attention to the ways climate change and conflict interact in Mali, there has been a lack of contextual evidence of specific risks.



Climate, Peace and Security Assessment: Mali fills this evidence-based knowledge gap by presenting qualitative and quantitative data analyses of climate security risks in Mali. Using the Weathering Risk methodology, this study is based on interviews with 87 individuals from June 2021, historical analysis and future projections of climate change impacts. While international attention has tended to focus on political and security developments in the wake of the military coup in Mali in August 2020, the report aims to spur the international community to take a more holistic, ground-up approach to security and governance challenges in Mali.



The report’s main authors Chitra Nagarajan and Lukas Rüttinger will present key findings, followed by a moderated Q&A. Please note that this is an in-person meeting, and we kindly ask you to inform us about your attendance at your earliest convenience and before 4 October 2022 to annika@gpplatform.ch.