Tom Friedman: Environmental, Population and Climate Factors in the Arab...
Thomas Friedman at the New York Times penned a great piece for the Sunday paper titled “The Other Arab Spring.” In it, he sheds light on some of the oft-ignored “environmental, population, and climate...
View ArticleSharing Water After the Arab Spring
When the dust settles in the Arab world, there will be two major questions asked: who actually holds power now, and what are we going to do about water? UPI recently reported on the numerous...
View ArticleClimate Vulnerability and Human Security in the Jordan River Basin
The London School of Economics’ Middle East Centre, in concert with Birzeit University in Palestine, is launching a new project titled “Transboundary Climate Security: Climate Vulnerability and Human...
View ArticleMore on Climate Change and the Syrian Uprising
Shahrzad Mohtadi has written an interesting piece for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on the connections between climatic changes, bad policy and social unrest in Syria. The article follows and...
View ArticleJonathan Marshall on Climate Change and Mideast Insecurity
Jonathan Marshall, author of ‘The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and The International Drug Trade,’ wrote a piece for the Huffington Post last Friday highlighting some possible connections...
View ArticlePrepared Remarks on Global Food and Climate Security
The following speech was delivered on Dec. 12, 2012 in Washington, DC by Caitlin Werrell, at a global food security and climate change lunch conversation for bishops from the Episcopal Church and the...
View ArticleToronto Star on the Arab Spring and Climate Change
The Toronto Star devoted an impressive amount of space this past weekend to articles exploring the role of climate change in the Arab world, before and after the trans-formative changes in the region....
View ArticleCan Authoritarian Regimes be Climate Resilient? Not Likely
William Goodyear of the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University recently asked an excellent question in response to something we said in an interview on climate...
View ArticleSyria and Climate Change – Framing the Relationship
Mehmet Burke, senior writer at Relief Analysis Wire, recently wrote a compelling piece for InterAction on the best way to talk about and examine the complex interrelationship of climate change with...
View ArticleSyria in the Water Conflict Chronology List
We wanted to thank Peter Gleick for citing our research on climate change, drought, desertification, natural resource management and social unrest in Syria in the Pacific Institute’s Water Conflict...
View ArticleThe Arab Awakening in a Changing Climate
Thanks to the Tunisian news service Nawaat for publishing our short article titled “The Arab Awakening in a Changing Climate.” Click here for the English version, and here for the French.
View ArticlePeter Gleick on Syria: Water, Climate and Conflict
In a recent Science Blogs post for National Geographic, water guru Peter Gleick takes a look at the water security dimensions of unrest in Syria. Referencing our work from last year, Gleick states: One...
View ArticleJournal Articles Detailing 20 Years of Water Conflict and Cooperation Made...
UN University is providing an extraordinary resource for those interested in the nexus of water, conflict and cooperation. Essentially, they have excavated 20-years’ worth of academic articles on the...
View ArticleRelief Analysis Wire: Two Important Lessons for Syrian Food Aid
This is a cross-post by Mehmet Burk from Relief Analysis Wire. As one of the most staggering humanitarian crises in recent decades continues to rapidly accelerate in Syria, the ability to effectively...
View ArticleOur Interview with Moyers and Co: Syria, Drought, Climate and Security
The Center for Climate and Security’s Co-Founder and Director, Francesco Femia, was recently interviewed by Moyers & Company’s John Light. In the interview, Femia discusses the links between the...
View ArticleOne-stop list of resources on Syria, drought, climate change and unrest
Over the past week, as attention to the humanitarian crisis in Syria has heightened in the United States, the mainstream media has taken a closer look at some of the underlying factors that contributed...
View ArticleCNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Syria, Climate and Drought
Though we would not have chosen the headline, CNN‘s Christiane Amanpour cited the Center for Climate and Security last Friday in a piece called “Syria violence caused by…water supply?” Her commentary...
View ArticleThe Atlantic Cities: Climate Change and Water Scarcity
Atlantic Cities’ John Metcalfe recently ran a piece arguing that water scarcity – with an emphasis on more severe drought – is the most immediate threat emanating from a changing climate. While we...
View ArticleWilliam Polk: Deep Dive On Syria, Including Drought
William R. Polk, a Middle East and North Africa expert who began his career on the State Department’s Policy Planning Council during the Kennedy Administration, has written an interesting piece for the...
View ArticleIf the Polar Vortex Descends on Syria
This article is cross-posted from ReliefAnalysis.com By Mehmet Burk The Northern Hemisphere is in the depths of its winter season. Last week’s polar vortex that plunged much of the US and Canada into...
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