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Dr Farah Hegazi
POSITION AT SIPRI
Researcher
Dr Farah Hegazi
Dr Farah Hegazi is a Researcher in SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk programme. Her research focuses on identifying and understanding climate-related security risks, and how interventions to address the effects of climate change can be used to build peace. She is currently working on evaluating how climate-related security risks affect peacekeeping missions, and on how the World Food Programme’s climate-related interventions can potentially contribute to peace. Dr Hegazi previously worked on environmental security and peacebuilding at the Environmental Law Institute and the Center on International Cooperation, and holds a Ph.D. in environmental policy.
Subject expertise
Environmental peacebuilding
Regional expertise
Global
CONTACT Dr Farah Hegazi
Languages
English, Arabic
Education
Ph.D., Environmental Politics and Policy, Duke University, USA; M.E.M., Duke University, USA; BSc., Environment, McGill University, Canada
Citizenship
United States
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Lessons on climate resilience and peacebuilding from Ethiopia and the Dry Corridor (Blog, March 2023)
- Reducing climate-related security risks and building peace through adaptation (Blog, November 2022)
- Climate change, disease and the legitimacy of armed non-state actors (Essay, June 2020)
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk(SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2022)
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Ethiopia(SIPRI, Stockholm:April 2022)
- Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Environment of Peace (Part 2)(SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2022)
- The Social Side of Climate Change Adaptation: Reducing Conflict Risk(SIPRI, Stockholm:September 2022)
- Climate-related Security Risks and Peacebuilding in Mali (SIPRI, Stockholm:April 2021)
External publications
- Krampe, F., Hegazi, F. and VanDeveerb, S.D., Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding, World Development, Volume 144 (Aug 2021)
- Hegazi, F. (Contributing author), Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). IPBES: Bonn, Germany (2019)
- Weinthal, E., Hegazi, F., and Witmer, L., 'Development and Diplomacy: Water, the SDGs, and U.S. Foreign Policy' In Water, Security, and U.S. Foreign Policy, ed. David Reed. New York: Routledge (2017)