Last week SIPRI and its partners launched Mistra Geopolitics, a large-scale, interdisciplinary programme examining the impact of climate and environmental change on today’s geopolitical landscape.
This is the first film in the ‘SIPRI Reflection’ series, which follows on from the successful 50th anniversary celebration series, ‘2016–A Year of Reflection’, with the aim to provide insightful and thoughtful analysis to guide viewers through some of the major themes of SIPRI’s wide-ranging work in peace and security.
As a consortium partner of the Planetary Security Initiative (PSI), SIPRI played a key role in the third-annual Planetary Security Conference, held in The Hague, 12–13 December.
SIPRI has been awarded a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS) to conduct research that investigates the changing livelihood conditions around the Omo-Turkana Basin—a lake basin which supports over 5 million people.
SIPRI is hosting the Expert Working Group on Climate-related Security Risks, initiated during Sweden’s membership of the United Nations (UN) Security Council (2017–18).
This week saw the launch of the Stockholm Climate Security Hub, a cross-institutional knowledge platform supported by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The launch took place at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm.
On 9 November, SIPRI, co-hosted a session on the theme ‘Women in the frontlines: Promoting inclusive approaches to the climate change and security nexus’ during the Geneva Peace Week.
The Expert Working Group on Climate-related Security Risks, hosted by SIPRI, launched a new report on Central Asia.
SIPRI in partnership with the Centre for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS) and the Swedish Institute Alexandria, launched the Arabic translation of SIPRI Yearbook 2018.
On 22 and 23 May, SIPRI in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Kenya Office (FES Kenya) and the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) convened a two-day workshop in Nairobi, Kenya to seek ways of better integrating the risks posed by climate change into peace and security processes in the Horn of Africa region.
(Stockholm, 23 October 2019) Climate change poses serious challenges to current and future peacebuilding missions, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) which studies the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).
On 11 December, SIPRI’s Dr Florian Krampe participated at the UN Climate Change Conference COP 25 in Madrid and engaged in the GCCA+ (Global Climate Change Alliance Plus) session on ‘Climate and security-emerging trends and adaptive strategies’.
As part of its engagement in peace and security matters in Africa, SIPRI, in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kenya office and the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), convened a meeting of the Horn of Africa Climate Security Working Group in Addis.
Today, Dan Smith, SIPRI Director, briefed the United Nations Security Council on the particular obstacles climate change is creating for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia.
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 2022, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) today presents a new initiative which aims to address the negative impact of environmental crises. The ‘Environment of Peace 2022’ (EP 2022) initiative is led by SIPRI under the guidance of a distinguished panel of international experts.
The Mistra Geopolitics research programme, of which SIPRI is a research partner, has been awarded funding for a second phase of the programme.
SIPRI would like to congratulate the World Food Programme (WFP) on being awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
On 22 October, Dan Smith, SIPRI Director, engaged in a high-level seminar on food security in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and how these issues link to conflict and climate change.
On 20 November 2020, SIPRI briefed the inaugural meeting of the Informal Expert Group of Members of the United Nations Security Council on Climate and Security. The topic of the virtual meeting was the recent developments in Somalia.
SIPRI and NUPI have agreed to a three-year cooperation with funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The aim of the collaboration is to inform the United Nations Security Council about climate-related security and development risks for selected countries and regions on the council’s agenda.
On 29 January, SIPRI and IPI hosted a virtual expert-level dialogue with Peacebuilding Commission members, focused on exploring the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) as a forum for discussions of climate-related security risks.
On 26 March, SIPRI, IPI and NUPI hosted a virtual expert-level dialogue on the theme ‘Translating Mandates into Policy and Practice: Emerging lessons from operationalizing climate-related security risks in peace operations and peacebuilding’.
This report sheds new light on this urgent question, through a case study of one of the biggest peace missions active today, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
On 22 April, Dan Smith, SIPRI Director, joined a virtual meeting of the Delegation for Relations with the Mashreq Countries and the Delegation to the ACP–European Union (EU) Joint Parliamentary Assembly. The topic for the meeting was ‘The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Can the EU Help to Overcome the Dispute?’.
Tomorrow (4 June) sees the debut of a new documentary featuring Johan Rockström, a member of the international panel guiding SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative and narrated by the renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.
As part of the ‘Climate-related Peace and Security Risks’ project, SIPRI co-hosted a virtual expert-level dialogue on ‘Integrating Climate Security and Peacemaking in Somalia’ on 2 June.
This week saw the launch of the Nordic-Baltic Network on Climate, Peace and Security, an initiative anchored in the Climate-related Peace and Security Risks project co-lead by SIPRI and NUPI.
SIPRI will host an event at this year's World Water Week in Stockholm, focusing on security actors and the governance of water resources.
Given the profound impact of climate change, it is increasingly being viewed as a source of security risks. What are these risks exactly and how can policy address them?
The seminar co-organized by Global Challenges Foundation and SIPRI will focus on why climate change should be on the agenda of the UN Security Council.
Climate change related phenomena such as rising sea-levels, drought and resource scarcities are contributing conditions to social unrest and human insecurity. Livelihoods, food security and migration are all affected. There is a need to better identify and respond to the risks of instability and conflict arising from the interaction of climate change, environmental and ecological degradation and social, economic, demographic and political factors.
The event aimed to conceptualise regional water conflicts, review the fundamentals of water disagreements between Israel and Palestine and to identify ways forward.
On 15 October, SIPRI will co-host a virtual event on 'Crisis, Conflict and Climate: From immediate humanitarian response to longer-term peace and development solutions'.