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Dr Florian Krampe
Director of Studies
Dr Florian Krampe
Dr Florian Krampe is the Director of Studies, Peace and Development, at SIPRI. He is also currently Acting Director of the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme. His particular focus is on peace and conflict research, environmental and climate security, and international security. His work bridges academia and policy and focuses on the foundations of peace and security, especially the processes of building peace after armed conflict in regions highly exposed to climate change.
Krampe’s work informs policymakers, including several UN organs and agencies, as well as other multilateral institutions and governments, who he regularly advises on their work on climate change and security.
Dr Krampe is an Affiliated Researcher at the Research School for International Water Cooperation at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and a Specially Appointed Professor at Hiroshima University, Japan. Krampe is a member of the Editorial Board of Environment and Security.
Subject expertise
Climate security, post-conflict peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace, environmental and water security, Environmental Peacebuilding, political sociology
Regional expertise
Global; South Asia, specifically Nepal and Afghanistan; East and Southern Africa; Balkans
CONTACT Dr Florian Krampe
Languages
English, German
Education
PhD, Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University; MA, Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Beyond the UN Security Council: Can the UN General Assembly tackle the climate–security challenge? (Essay, )
- Russia’s ‘nyet’ does not mean climate security is off the Security Council agenda (Expert comment, )
- Why United Nations peace operations cannot ignore climate change (Topical backgrounder, )
- The new EU peace mediation strategy: A step in the right direction on climate issues (Expert comment, )
- No lasting peace without climate security (Essay, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Climate, Peace and Security Research Paper: Insights on Climate, Peace and Security (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2023)
- Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2022)
- Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Environment of Peace (Part 2) (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
- Climate-related Security Risks and Peacebuilding in Mali (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2021)
- Water Security and Governance in the Horn of Africa (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2020)
- Climate-related Security Risks and the African Union (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2020)
- Pathways of Climate Insecurity: Guidance for Policymakers (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2020)
- The Peacebuilding Commission and Climate-related Security Risks: A More Favourable Political Environment? (SIPRI and International Peace Institute, Stockholm and New York: September 2020)
- Climate Security: Making it #Doable (Clingendael and SIPRI, The Hague, Stockholm: February 2019)
- Climate Change, Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace (June 2019)
- Climate-related Security Risks and Peacebuilding in Somalia (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2019)
- Responses to Climate-related Security Risks: Regional Organizations in Asia and Africa (SIPRI, Stockholm : August 2018)
- Climate Change and Violent Conflict: Sparse Evidence from South Asia and South East Asia (September 2018)
- Conference Report: 2017 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development (SIPRI, Stockholm: August 2017)
External publications
- Krampe, F., Ide, T. et al, The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research, Environmental Politics (2023)
- 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)
- Swatuk, L. A., Thomas B. K., Krampe F., et al, The ‘boomerang effect’: insights for improved climate action, Climate and Development (2020)
- Smith, D. and Krampe, F., Climate-Related Security Risks in the Middle East, in Anders Jägerskog, Michael Schulz, and Ashok Swain (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security, London: Routledge (2019)
- Krampe, F., and Mobjörk, M., Responding to Climate-Related Security Risks: Reviewing Regional Organizations in Asia and Africa, Current Climate Change Reports (Oct 2018)
- Krampe, F. and Gignoux, S., Water Service Provision and Peacebuilding in East Timor – Exploring the socio-ecological determinants of sustaining peace, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 12 (2): 185-207 (2018)
- Swatuk, L., Wirkus, L., Krampe, F., et al., The Boomerang Effect: Overview and Implications for Climate Governance in Swatuk, L. and Wirkus, L. (Eds) Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect: Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity, London & New York: Earthscan (2018)
- Krampe, F., 'Environmental Peacebuilding in Nepal: Lessons from Nepal’s Micro-Hydropower Projects' in Swain, A. and Öjendal, J., Routledge Handbook on Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding, London: Routledge (2018)
- Krampe, F. Towards Sustainable Peace: A New Research Agenda for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management, Global Environmental Politics 17 (4)
- Stoett, P., Daszak, P., Romanelli, C. et al. Avoiding catastrophes: seeking synergies among the public health, environmental protection, and human security sectors, The Lancet Global Health, 4(10), e680–e681 (2016)
- Krampe, F. Water for peace? Post-conflict water resource management in Kosovo, Cooperation and Conflict (2016)
- Krampe, F. Empowering Peace: Service Provision and State legitimacy in Peacebuilding in Nepal, Conflict, Security, and Development 16 (1): 53-73 (2016)
- Swain, A. and Krampe, F. Stability and Sustainability in Peace Building: Priority Area for Warfare Ecology in Machlis, G. E., Hanson, T., Špirić, Z. and Mckendry, J. E. (eds.) Warfare Ecology (Springer Netherlands) 199-210. (2011)
- Swain, A., Bali Swain, R., Themner, A. et al. Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflicts in Southern Africa, Global Crisis Solutions: Pretoria (2011)