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Dr Kyungmee Kim
Associate Researcher
Dr Kyungmee Kim
Dr Kyungmee Kim is an Associate Researcher in the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme. In 2021, she received her PhD in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University after completing her dissertation, titled ‘Civil Resistance in the Shadow of War: Explaining Popular Mobilization against Dams in Myanmar’. She is a member of the Research School for International Water Cooperation at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, which is part of the UNESCO Center for Water Cooperation. Prior to her doctoral research, Dr Kim worked on international water cooperation and civil society empowerment at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).
Subject expertise
Social conflict over infrastructure projects, climate change and conflict, civil resistance, community mobilization, environmental security
Regional expertise
Southeast Asia, Mekong Region, Myanmar
CONTACT Dr Kyungmee Kim
Languages
Korean, English, Chinese
Education
PhD in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (Sweden); MSc in Sustainable Development, Uppsala University (Sweden); BA in Politics and Diplomacy, BA in Business Administration, Yonsei University (Republic of Korea)
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Water for peace … for now? (Blog, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Myanmar (2024) (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2024)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Iraq (2023) (SIPRI, Stockholm : April 2023)
- Artificial Intelligence for Climate Security: Possibilities and Challenges (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2023)
- Climate, Peace and Security Research Paper: Insights on Climate, Peace and Security (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2023)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Yemen (2023) (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2023)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Democratic Republic of the Congo (2023) (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2023)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Somalia (2023) (SIPRI, Stockholm : September 2023)
- Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2022)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Iraq (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : April 2022)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Ethiopia (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : June 2022)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: South Sudan (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : March 2022)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Sudan (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : May 2022)
- Water Cooperation in the Horn of Africa: Addressing Drivers of Conflict and Strengthening Resilience (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
External publications
- Kim, K., and Ferré Garcia, T. ‘The MENA Region Is Headed for More Insecurity Due to Climate Change. Can This Be Mitigated?’ IPI Global Observatory (8 Jan 2024)
- Kim, K., and Ferré Garcia, T. ‘Climate Change and Violent Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa’. International Studies Review 25 (4): viad053 (2023)
- Broek, E. and Kim, K., Leveraging Hydropower for Peace, New Security Beat (Aug 2022)
- Kim, K., “Civil resistance in the shadow of war: explaining popular mobilisation against dams in Myanmar”, PhD dissertation, Uppsala University (2021)
- Kim, K. & Rød, E., Digitally fueled civil resistance and repression in Myanmar, Political violence at a glance (March 2021)
- Grech-Madin, C., Döring, S., Kim, K., & Swain, A., Negotiating water across levels: A peace and conflict “Toolbox” for water diplomacy, Journal of Hydrology, 559, 100-109 (2018)
- Kim, K. & Swain, A., Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and Beyond: A Typology of Water Crime, In The Human Face of Water Security, edited by Devlaeminck, D., Adeel, Z., & Sanford, R., Springer (2017)
- Kim, K, Rethinking Myanmar’s waterways through Foucault’s biopolitics, Tea circle: A forum for new perspectives on Burma/Myanmar (February 2017)
- Jägerskog, A., & Kim, K., Land acquisition: a means to mitigate water scarcity and reduce conflict?, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 61(7), 1338-1345 (2016)
- Kim, K & Jägerskog, A., Overseas investment in land and challenges in the Nile Basin –evident links from the Middle East and North Africa investment in “Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin: Challenges and new investments” Routledge (2016)