ABSTRACT
The lack of treatment of the relationships between armed conflict, women and climate change is not unsolvable because these things do not lend themselves to being actionable in military activities and operations. For example, even though the most recent NATO environmental protection doctrine fails to make these connections, viewing this doctrine through a gender lens shows the ease with which gender considerations could be included. Further, work done by the Centre of Excellence for Civil-Military Cooperation demonstrates how these linkages might be developed in CIMIC doctrine. Finally, one of the proxies for climate change’s negative effects that has proven useful in finding positive correlations between climate change and armed conflict is food security. These examples could provide a practical platform for considering what gender-related tasks are both properly within military skill sets and resource constraints. Food security would also provide a common area in which military units could work more effectively with civilian government organisations, and if non-governmental actors were so inclined, an area in which information exchange could occur between them and military organisations without them actually having to work together.
