Unstable Ground
Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide
1st Edition
Published on 25. July 2017
222 pages
979-8-7651-8224-6 (ISBN)
Description
Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity-ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies and heighten the risk of mass violence.
Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including Darfur, Syria, and the current migration crisis, this book illustrates the thorny intersections of climate change and violence. The author doesn't claim causation but makes a compelling case that changing environmental circumstances can be a critical factor in facilitating violent conflict. As research suggests climate change will continue and accelerate, understanding how it might contribute to violence is essential in understanding how to prevent it.
Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including Darfur, Syria, and the current migration crisis, this book illustrates the thorny intersections of climate change and violence. The author doesn't claim causation but makes a compelling case that changing environmental circumstances can be a critical factor in facilitating violent conflict. As research suggests climate change will continue and accelerate, understanding how it might contribute to violence is essential in understanding how to prevent it.
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Alex Alvarez is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. He was the founding director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values. He is the author of several books, including Governments, Citizens, and Genocide, Genocidal Crimes, and Native America and the Question of Genocide. He has also served as an editor for the journal Violence and Victims, and he was a founding coeditor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention.
Content
Chapter 1: Making Sense of Climate Change
Chapter 2: On the Origins of Violent Conflict: War and the Genocidal Impulse
Chapter 3: Linking Climate Change and Conflict
Chapter 4: Water, Violent Conflict, and Genocide
Chapter 5: Forced Displacement and Borders in a Warming World
Chapter 6: Preventing Conflict and Building Resilience
Chapter 2: On the Origins of Violent Conflict: War and the Genocidal Impulse
Chapter 3: Linking Climate Change and Conflict
Chapter 4: Water, Violent Conflict, and Genocide
Chapter 5: Forced Displacement and Borders in a Warming World
Chapter 6: Preventing Conflict and Building Resilience
