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In international development, conflict is often used as shorthand for violent conflict, and avoiding conflict is considered a priority. But “it’s
Whether or not we respond to climate change – and the security implications of that decision – is a major public policy question. But
“Environmental peacemaking is inherently an optimistic kind of thing,” said Larry Swatuk, Professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of
The invasion could bring short-term environmental emergencies but also weaken environmental governance and affect policy in the long term.
South Asia’s extreme smog worsens each winter, helping to kill an estimated 1.2 million Indians and 128,000 Pakistanis annually—more than have died in either country from the COVID virus. As pollution this past winter exacerbated the pandemic, India’s and Pakistan’s governments responded with mutual blame. Yet COVID, and a sudden moment of détente between these bitter rivals, could offer an opportunity to address the smog crisis, and build rare collaboration with the only strategy that can work: a joint one. The governments, their U.S. and international allies and civil society shoul...