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The UN Secretary-General called the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a “code red for humanity, noting that the
Foreword In the Sahel, an explosive crisis is brewing. Battered by increasing instability and violent extremism in recent years, the region is also among the areas most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, from both an ecological and human perspective. Though the role of climate change in violent extremism dynamics is still not yet fully understood, leaders, researchers, and...
UNICRI’s report, “Perceptions of Climate Change and Violent Extremism: Listening to Local Communities in Chad,” highlights how climate change and resource depletion exacerbate local conflicts and fuel violent extremist recruitment narratives. Based on in-depth interviews with Chadian communities, the report analyses climate impacts on two levels: the direct effects on livelihoods such as...
Environmental change cannot be isolated as the sole catalyst for extremism. The correlation be-tween climate change and extremist violence is in-fluenced significantly by an array of socio-econom-ic and political elements in a given region. Factors such as population density, urbanization, climate resilience policies, adaptation strategies, commu-nity resilience, governmental management of nat...
But climate change is real: this fact is repeated by our politicians, celebrities, scientific experts, teachers and media outlets. Climate activists are not advocating on behalf of a fringe ideology, but a majority one. As such, the usual identifiers of a path towards radicalisation - millenarian rhetoric, operation within a “cell” structure, a general dissatisfaction with the democratic...