Don’t blame the weather! Climate-related natural disasters and civil conflict
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Abstract The issue of climate change and security has received much attention in recent years. Still, the results from research on this topic are mixed and the academic community appears to be far from a consensus on how climate change is likely to affect stability and conflict risk in affected countries. This study focuses on how climate-related natural disasters such as storms, floods, and droughts have affected the risk of civil war in the past. The frequency of such disasters has risen sharply over the last decades, and the increase is expected to continue due to both climate change and demographic changes. Using multivariate methods, this study employs a global sample covering 1950 to the present in order to test whether adding climate-related natural disasters to a well-specified model on civil conflict can increase its explanatory power. The results indicate that this is the case, but that the relation is opposite to common perceptions: Countries that are affected by climate-related natural disasters face a lower risk of civil war. One worrying facet of the claims that environmental factors cause conflict is that they may contribute to directing attention away from more important conflict-promoting factors, such as poor governance and poverty. There is a serious risk of misguided policy to prevent civil conflict if the assumption that disasters have a significant effect on war is allowed to overshadow more important causes.
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- Authors
- Slettebak, R. T.
- Affiliations
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Slettebak, Rune T
- Venue
- Journal of Peace Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-01-01
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 163-176
- ISSN
- 0022-3433 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-3578
- OpenAlex
- W1964983209
- Cited by
- 212
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 13
- FWCI
- 51.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Peace Research (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
- Keywords
- civil conflict, civil war risk, climate change and security, storms, floods, drought, disaster frequency, governance, poverty
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