From Climate Change to Conflict : An analysis of the climate-conflict nexus in communications on climate change response

• Main Authors: Aleryd, Sarah, Frassine Garpenholt, Lydia
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Jönköping University, HLK, Globala studier 2020
• Subjects: conflict; climate change; climate-conflict nexus; conflict-sensitivity; Afghanistan; Globalisation Studies; Globaliseringsstudier; Social Sciences Interdisciplinary; Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49218

This study explores the portrayal of the climate-conflict nexus in global and national communications on climate change response. It utilizes a qualitative inductive approach and the IPCC AR5 (2014) was chosen to represent global communication documents, while two Afghan communications, the Initial as well as Second National Communication, on climate change and response were used to represent the national level. Through a content analysis, several themes were discerned through which the climate-conflict nexus is portrayed. It can be concluded that there are several differences between the global versus Afghan communication documents, as well as between the Initial National Communication (2012) and the Second National Communication (2017). The Second National Communication overall attempts to mirror the communication used by the IPCC by using the same themes but in a more indirect way. The analysis finds that the climate-conflict nexus is often portrayed through indirect communication and that this leads to a lack of conflict-sensitivity in the Afghan national documents, concluding by making suggestions on how to improve conflict-sensitivity in these documents.