Authors: Shreya Mitra and Janani Vivekananda, International Alert
Date: 09 May, 2013
Summary: The case of Bangladesh demonstrates that building resilience to climate change is not just about responding to physical climate hazards. Equally important are an effective local government, climate-sensitive alternative livelihoods and peaceful and safe management of migration
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Date: 03 May 2013
Time: 09:30-12:30
Venue: Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Karachi, Karachi
What is the nature of the environmental risks faced and their interaction with existing dimensions of peace and security at the household and village level? How can adaptation interventions (by the state or international institutions) address these risks and root causes of vulnerability? International Alert the Bangladesh Institute for Peace and Security Studies are hosting a roundtable to discuss these very issues of climate change, peace and security in Nepal. Findings from case-study research in Thatta and Badin in Sindh province on the interaction between climate change, security and resilience at the local level will be presented.
This study is one of a series of regional studies, which aim to present evidence of the interactions between environmental, social, political and economic risks at the local level in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The four studies and accompanying policy brief will be available electronically to all attendees.
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If you would like to attend please RSVP to smitra@international-alert.org
Date: 30th April 2013
Venue: Himalaya Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal
What is the nature of the environmental risks faced and their interaction with existing dimensions of peace and security at the household and village level? How can adaptation interventions (by the state or international institutions) address these risks and root causes of vulnerability? International Alert is hosting a roundtable to discuss these very issues of climate change, peace and security in Nepal. Findings from case-study research in Banke, Dang and Ropa on the interaction between climate change, security and resilience at the local level will be presented.
This study is one of a series of regional studies, which aim to present evidence of the interactions between environmental, social, political and economic risks at the local level in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The four studies and accompanying policy brief will be available electronically to all attendees.
PANEL
If you would like to attend please RSVP to npandey@international-alert.org
Date: 23rd April 2013
Time: 11:00 – 13:00
Venue: Observer Research Foundation, 20, Rouse Avenue Institutional Area, New Delhi – 110 002
What is the nature of the environmental risks faced and their interaction with existing dimensions of peace and security at the household and village level? How can adaptation interventions (by the state or international institutions) address these risks and root causes of vulnerability? International Alert and the Observer Research Foundation are hosting a roundtable to discuss these very issues of climate change, peace and security in India. Findings from case-study research in Lake Chilika, Odisha on the interaction between climate change, security and resilience at the local level will be presented.
This study is one of a series of regional studies, which aim to present evidence of the interactions between environmental, social, political and economic risks at the local level in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The four studies and accompanying policy brief will be available electronically to all attendees.
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Author: Phil Vernon, Director of Programmes, International Alert
Date: 19 March, 2013
Resilience is a wonderful metaphor. It somehow conveys in a single word the qualities of bending without breaking, of healing after an injury, of tensile rather than brittle strength. Oak and palm trees are resilient to the power of strong winds, before which they bend and then straighten again. Resilient people pick themselves up after being knocked down, draw on their reserves of ideas and strength to deal with difficult challenges, or hunker down until the gale has blown itself away. Resilient economies bounce back, and resilient ecosystems restore themselves after the fire or the flood has passed.
On 7 February, Janani Vivekananda, International Alert’s Climate Change and Conflict Programme Manager, spoke at the Strengthening Responses to Climate Variability in South Asia conference at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC. Janani presented four case studies – on Nepal, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh – to illustrate levels of risk and resilience to environmental change at village level. A webcast of the conference is available below.
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13th November 2012; International Alert and the South Asia Network on Climate Change and Security (SANSaC) held an expert roundtable meeting to validate the findings of the field research for our joint project: Strengthening Responses to Climate Variability in South Asia. The meeting took place on Wednesday 14th November in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The purpose of the meeting was to review case study research conducted by the SANSaC research teams in Nepal, Pakistan and India. The case studies aim to understand the linkages between climate change, conflict and fragility in two sub-national contexts in each of the three countries; unpack the challenges of responding to climate change-related risks in a way which avoids violent conflict, explore the role of governance (of water, energy, migration etc), and build an understanding of how these complex and nuanced issues should influence the discourse, policy, and effective responses by appropriate international institutions.
The South Asia Network of Climate Change and Security, having met in Male’ on the 1st of December 2011 to discuss opportunities and challenges related to climate change and security in South Asia, offer the following views to the Parties and Governments of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
1. Calls on governments to facilitate ‘decentralised water diplomacy’ that involves a broader group of stakeholders at local level, and particularly across the region.
2. Calls on governments and international institutions to better understand the dynamics and diverse causal factors of climate related migration, to promote timely, peace positive governance of rural-urban and trans-boundary migration.
3. Calls on governments to take leadership on improving rural and urban food security, in particular to ensure climate sensitive food production, equitable distribution and sustainable consumption.
The South Asia Network of Climate Change and Security, having met in Male’ on the 1st of December 2011 to discuss opportunities and challenges related to climate change and security in South Asia, offer the following views to the Parties and Governments of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
1. Calls on governments to facilitate ‘decentralised water diplomacy’ that involves a broader group of stakeholders at local level, and particularly across the region.
2. Calls on governments and international institutions to better understand the dynamics and diverse causal factors of climate related migration, to promote timely, peace positive governance of rural-urban and trans-boundary migration.
3. Calls on governments to take leadership on improving rural and urban food security, in particular to ensure climate sensitive food production, equitable distribution and sustainable consumption.
