After more than 40 years of intermittent conflict, dictatorship, and foreign intervention, Iraq is riven with socio-economic crises, sectarian and ethnic tensions, and fraying social cohesion, some of which risk contributing to further violence.

On February 1-4 2022, The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) will be organizing the second 

Report launch event 'Climate Security in the Bay of Bengal' on 15 February (11.00 - 12.30 CET; 15.30 - 17.00 IST). Register here.   

The Bay of Bengal (BoB) region is emerging as an important focal point for climate security risks. This is largely due to a multi-layered interplay of geopolitical, geostrategic, and climate-related regional dynamics. It forms the final leg between West and East Asia.

The climate in the Middle East and North Africa is warming up twice as fast as the average global temperature rise, but in Iraq, this is ha

Solomon Islands is presently in the middle of civil unrest. Violence erupted over concerns that the government is increasingly operating under the unwarranted political influence of China. The impacts of climate change can be considered an underlying driver of the tensions.