From Tipping Points to Turning Points: Tools for Climate, Peace and Security

As climate emergencies intensify, the question is no longer if climate change drives insecurity—but how we respond to it in a multi-systemic and coherent way.  There continues to be a huge disconnect between global policy discussions and practical experience on the ground, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings. This session moves beyond problem diagnosis to explore pathways for resilience, conflict prevention and peace. This session seeks to bring together diverse experience across contexts and themes, with a specific focus on tools and analysis – particularly community-led and youth-led approaches – which have helped to deepen understanding and to better inform early warning systems, and climate adaptation strategies in fragile and conflict affected settings.

Participants will explore how tools and interventions can support conflict prevention and peacebuilding. This includes:
SeeD’s work in Niger, where SCORE, as a tool to measure social cohesion and reconciliation, has been used to examine the relationship between climate stressors and recruitment into armed groups. 
The Kofi Annan Foundation’s youth-led research on climate, conflict, and social cohesion in Southeast Asia.
Recent work by the Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility to develop tools and guidance for conservation actors in South Sudan to integrate conflict sensitive approaches to help them navigate a volatile context.