Defending the Future: Gender, Conflict and Environmental Peace
Publisher: London School of Economics
Author(s): Keina Yoshida, Hannah Bond, and Helen Kezie-Nwoha
Date: 2020
Topics: Climate Change, Gender, Governance, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
Countries: Uganda
This report focuses on the gendered impact of climate change and how this intersects with women and girls’ right to peace. At the time of writing this report, there is a growing recognition of the need for the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda to take into account how the climate crisis poses risks to women and girls’ peace and security, particularly in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Food security, water insecurity and displacement are issues affecting women and girls due to extreme weather and the climate emergency.
The intersection of WPS, climate change, ecological destruction and conflict or post-conflict situations thus raises a myriad of issues. As the recent UN Report on Gender, Climate and Security put it: “There is therefore an urgent need for better analysis and concrete, immediate actions to address the linkages between climate change and conflict from a gender perspective”
This report is based on interviews with practitioners, experts, academics and activists. Together with a roundtable held in London in January and four focus group discussions which took place in Uganda in 2020, the project involved 126 participants in total. The report written in partnership between the Centre, the Women’s International Peace Centre and Gender Action for Peace and Security.