At the Forefront of Climate Action: Local Approaches to Climate-Sensitive Conflict and Violence Prevention
Publisher: Plataforma CIPÓ
Author(s): Nayifa Nihad and Adriana Erthal Abdenur
Date: 2021
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Prevention, Gender, Governance
The purpose of this mapping brief is to call attention to and provide examples of local initiatives for climate-sensitive conflict and violence prevention. Identifying existing initiatives at the local level is important because policy discussions of climate and security have focused largely on global, regional and national levels. Yet, without harnessing the lived experiences, perspectives, concerns and demands of local actors -- as well as their knowledge and capacity -- decision-making at higher governance levels runs the risk of leading to ineffective initiatives, or even, at the worst-case scenarios, to exacerbate conflict and violence. In sum, we provide an overview of key local initiatives to allow stakeholders such as international organisations, donor countries, and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) to better understand opportunities to develop locally-informed climate action in conflict-affected settings.