Climate Change, Disasters, and Resilience
The Climate, Disasters, and Resilience (CDR) Interest Group brings together scholars and practitioners exploring how climate change and disasters shape conflict, cooperation, and pathways to peace. As compounding risks intensify—drought, floods, extreme heat, displacement—this interest group focuses on how climate-related stressors intersect with governance, inequality, and fragility, as well as how resilience-building can serve peace and justice. The CDR Interest Group aims to foster exchange across disciplinary, institutional, and geographic boundaries to inform policy and practice, and embark on collaborative action, including through webinars, collaborative publications, and conference sessions. Specific areas of the CDR Interest Group include the following:
- Climate (and related, wider environmental)-conflict and peace linkages in fragile and conflict-affected and fragile states;
- Responding to disasters with challenged political will, weakened institutional capacities and limited resources at national, regional and global levels;
- Anticipatory action, early warning systems;
- Addressing root causes;
- Climate-induced displacement and relocation; and
- Critical debates (i.e. divergent resilience discourses and practices; local agency and national/international drivers of crisis; and decolonial, feminist, and Global South perspectives).
The CDR Interest Group welcomes participation from those engaging issues related to climate, disaster and resilience (and their intersections) across humanitarian, development, and peace sectors.
The Chairs of the Climate Change, Disasters, and Resilience Interest Group are Charles Kelly (havedisastercallkelly@gmail.com), Erin McCandless (erin.mccandless@gmail.com), and Kristin Weis (Kristin.weis@gmail.com).