ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how and why climate change adaptation should be integrated into peacebuilding. The framework organizes peacebuilding into four functional domains: social, economic, and environmental; governance and political; security; and truth and reconciliation. The chapter explores with a brief overview of climate science, and summarizes real and potential climate change impacts. It reviews how scholars have sought to link environmental stress generally to the conflict cycle, work that has provided a strong platform for investigating the role of climate change across the conflict cycle. Scientists around the world have considered very carefully other possible explanations for trends such as global warming, and they have concluded that human behavior is indeed driving contemporary climate change. The idea is that climate change might contributes to many other forms of violence, such as human insecurity, crime, murders, protests, riots, pandemics, and terrorism.
