Climate Change: Will Climate Change Lead to Conflict or Cooperation?

Aug 4, 2014 | Independent European Daily Express
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UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - The headline of every article about the relationship between climate change and conflict should be complicated according to Clionadh Raleigh.

Director of the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, Raleigh thinks that researchers and the media have put too simplistic a spin on the link between climate change and violence.

In recent years, scientists and the United Nations have been increasing their focus on climate conflict. The debate ranges from sensational reports that say the world will soon erupt into water wars to those who do not think the topic is worthy of discussion at all.