Securing Peace in a Time of Environmental Crisis–The Research Agenda Emerging from the 2022 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development Policy Dialogues
Publisher: Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Author(s): Simone Bunse and Claire McAllister
Date: 2022
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Prevention, Disasters, Governance, Programming
Over the last decade, the annual Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development has grown into one of the key venues for discussions between policy makers, researchers, and practitioners from the Global North and South about the nexus between peace, security, and development. This discussion space, outside of formal institutional contexts, has brought forward innovative policy responses to protracted problems and contributed to policy processes. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the UN Conference on the Human Environment and at the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 2022 Stockholm Forum focused on the issue of how to secure peace in a time of environmental crisis.
The topic was inspired by SIPRI's flagship report Environment of Peace: Security in a new era of risk (Black et al., 2022) launched at the Forum. Exploring the complex challenges presented by converging environmental and security crises, the report offers principles and recommendations for managing the risks and setting the world on a more secure and sustainable course. Its findings provided the backdrop for the policy questions the Forum considered. This briefing summarizes key aspects of the crises, and then discusses core recommendations from the Stockholm Forum, and what they mean for future research.