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Elisabeth L. Rosvold

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Elisabeth L. Rosvold was a Senior Research Fellow at NUPI in the Research group on peace, conflict and development until December 2022.

 

Expertise

  • Development policy
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • International organizations

Aktivitet

Norge – klimahykler eller redningsland?
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Norge – klimahykler eller redningsland?

Er ambisjonen om å være en klimaforkjemper ute i verden forenelig med at Norge produserer en ikke akkurat ubetydelig mengde olje og gass?Det er et...

  • Economic growth
  • The Nordic countries
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Economic growth
  • The Nordic countries
  • Climate
  • Energy

Climate, Peace and Security Research Paper: Insights on Climate, Peace and Security

Climate change is transforming and redefining the global security and development landscape. United Nations member states are increasingly acknowledging that the impacts of climate change have implications for international peace and security. The growing recognition of this link has been reflected by the UN Security Council adopting over 70 related resolutions and presidential statements since 2017.
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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How does climate change impact peace and security?

Since 2021, NUPI and SIPRI have analysed the links between climate, peace, and security in countries and regions on the agenda of the UN Security Council. These are the researchers’ key findings.
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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Research paper
Kheira Tarif, Katongo Seyuba, Anne Funnemark, Elisabeth L. Rosvold, Kyungmee Kim, Florian Krampe, Asha Ali, Cedric H. de Coning

Climate, Peace and Security Research Paper: Insights on Climate, Peace and Security

Climate change is transforming and redefining the global security and development landscape. United Nations member states are increasingly acknowledging that the impacts of climate change have implications for international peace and security. The growing recognition of this link has been reflected by the UN Security Council adopting over 70 related resolutions and presidential statements since 2017. Since 2021 the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) have analysed the links between climate, peace and security in countries and regions on the agenda of the UN Security Council. With support from Norway during its elected membership of the UN Security Council in 2021–22, NUPI and SIPRI jointly published 11 Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheets covering Afghanistan, the Central African Republic (CAR), Colombia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Mali, the Sahel region, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. These fact sheets build on an analysis of four pathways from climate change to conflict that were identified in the context of East Africa; and supplement research on South and South East Asia, West Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa. The relationships between climate change and conflict have been studied in numerous other empirical studies and literature reviews with complementary findings. This paper outlines how climate change can affect peace and security (section I) and how climate change interacts with social, economic and political vulnerabilities in the countries covered by the Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheets (section II). The paper then synthesizes (section III) four key findings from the fact sheet series: (a) livelihood security is important, if not crucial, to the ways in which climate change influences conflict risk; (b) the impacts of climate change in one location can increase security risks in other locations; (c) the impacts of climate change interact with local vulnerabilities in ways that can create new security risks and exacerbate existing risks, such as conflict; and (d) conflict is not an inevitable consequence of climate change, but can be a response to its effects. This paper concludes with recommendations for how the UN Security Council shapes policies to address the complex challenges arising from climate change (section IV).

  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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Policy brief

Climate Security Language in UN Peace Operation’s Mandates

Article 24 of the United Nations Charter confers the responsibility of maintaining international peace and security to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). This task requires a comprehensive engagement with the complex systems driving conflict in the world to understand and respond to threats to international peace and security. The UNSC has over the last 30 years gradually adopted a non-traditional security approach by incorporating economic, social, humanitarian and ecological instability as threats to international peace and security.

  • Peace operations
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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  • Peace operations
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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Publications
Anne Funnemark, Asha Ali, Cedric H. de Coning, Elisabeth L. Rosvold, Florian Krampe, Emilie Broek, Katongo Seyuba, Kheira Tarif, Farah Hegazi

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Somalia

Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in over four decades. More frequent and intense floods and droughts fuel competition over natural resources, exacerbating community tensions and vulnerabilities. In combination with decades of conflict and instability, climate change poses a serious challenge to peace and security.

  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations

Climate, Peace and Security in Somalia

In this Fact Sheet from the joint NUPI and SIPRI Climate-related Peace and Security Risks Project (CPSR) team explore the nexus between climate change, peace and security in Somalia.
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Somalia

Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in over four decades. More frequent and intense floods and droughts fuel competition over natural resources, exacerbating community tensions and vulnerabilities. In combination with decades of conflict and instability, climate change poses a serious challenge to peace and security.
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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Publications
Publications
Cedric H. de Coning, Elisabeth L. Rosvold, Anne Funnemark, Asha Ali, Florian Krampe, Katongo Seyuba, Kheira Tarif, Farah Hegazi

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Central African Republic

In this new Fact Sheet from the joint NUPI and SIPRI Climate-related Peace and Security Risks Project (CPSR). The research team explore the nexus between climate change, peace and security.

  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Central African Republic

In July 2022, heavy torrential rains destroyed the homes of almost 22 000 people in Bangui and surrounding prefectures, adding to an already dire humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR).
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • United Nations
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