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Dr Caroline Delgado
Programme Director
Dr Caroline Delgado
Dr Caroline Delgado leads the Food, Peace and Security Programme, shaping policy-relevant analysis at the nexus of humanitarian action, development, and peace. With over 15 years of experience in peacebuilding, conflict analysis, and climate-resilient food systems, her work integrates research and practice to inform policy and promote stability in conflict-affected regions. She holds a PhD in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response from the University of Manchester and is widely published on the links between food security, climate change, and peace. Her work is grounded in extensive global field engagement, and she advises organisations on innovative approaches to development and peace.
Subject expertise
Conflict, human security, peacebuilding, and climate-resilient food systems
Regional expertise
Latin America, especially Colombia
CONTACT Dr Caroline Delgado
Languages
Swedish, English, Spanish
Education
PhD Humanitarian and Conflict Response, University of Manchester, UK; MA International Humanitarian Action, Uppsala University, Sweden
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Demilitarizing environmental protection will benefit Colombia’s biodiversity (Blog, )
- Beyond food security: The potential gendered consequences of food aid (Blog, )
- War in the breadbasket: One year in (Blog, )
- War in the breadbasket: The ripple effects on food insecurity and conflict risk beyond Ukraine (Blog, )
- The impact of COVID-19 on critical global food supply chains and food security (Topical backgrounder, )
- Why it is important to register violent deaths (Blog, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- From Silos to Synergies: Partnering for Social Cohesion in the Sahel (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2025)
- Environmental and Climate Justice, and the Dynamics of Violence in Latin America: Perspectives from a Regional Working Group on Climate Change, the Environment, Peace and Security in Latin America (SIPRI, Stockholm: February 2024)
- Promoting Peace through Climate-resilient Food Security Initiatives (SIPRI, Stockholm: February 2024)
- Towards Humanitarian Action that Intentionally Promotes Peace in South Sudan (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2024)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Colombia (2024) (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2024)
- Financing Food Security: Promises and Pitfalls of the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in South Sudan (SIPRI, Stockholm : January 2023)
- Food Insecurity in Africa: Drivers and Solutions (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2023)
- Improving the Prospects for Peace in South Sudan: Spotlight on Stabilization (SIPRI, Stockholm : May 2023)
- Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Ways Forward (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2022)
- Measuring Peace Impact: Challenges and Solutions (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2022)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Colombia (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : October 2022)
- Improving the Prospects for Peace in Nigeria: Spotlight on Stabilization (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2022)
- Improving the Prospects for Peace in Nigeria: Spotlight on Measurement (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2022)
- Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Case Studies of Venezuela and Yemen (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Pathways and Interconnections (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2021)
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Colombia (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2020)
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2019)
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in El Salvador (November 2019)
External publications
- Delgado, C., Conflict, Climate and Crisis: Rethinking Food Security in a Fragile World. In: Floyd, R. and Matthew, R. eds., 2026. Environmental security: approaches, issues and actors. Taylor & Francis.
- Delgado, C., Latin America: A Test Case for Aligning Climate Action, Food Security and Social Sustainability, Inter Press Service (Nov. 2025)
- Delgado, C., COP 16 Conference made Key Steps Towards a More Just Transition for Indigenous Peoples & Peasant Communities, Inter Press Service (March 2025)
- Delgado, C., A Violent World Is a Hungrier World, Project Syndicat, (June 2023)
- Delgado, C., Food security in conflict and peacebuilding settings: beyond a humanitarian concern, Pathways to Peace and Security 2 (63), pp. 38-61 (2022)
- Delgado, C. and Smith, D., Hunger and food systems in conflict settings, 2021 Global Hunger Index, Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide (2021)
- Asylbek kyzy, G., Delgado, C. and Milante, G., Gaps Report: Challenges of Counting All Violent Deaths Worldwide, GReVD (May 2020)