Across the globe, climate change has undermined security and triggered violent conflict, with terrorists leveraging climate insecurity to pursue their goals. This discussion took place at a side event during the 2023 Counter-Terrorism week. The side event was anchored in the 2022 report Perceptions of climate change and violent extremism: Listening to local communities in Chad published by UNICRI in partnership with SWISSAID. It sought to a) raise-awareness among participants of the ongoing discourse around climate and security, in particular the impact of climate change and degradation of natural resources and how this can exacerbate local conflicts, and b) highlight the linkages between climate insecurity with radicalization and recruitment by terrorist groups.
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7 сен 2024
