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    • Compound Risks and Sustainable Security

      Compound Risks and Sustainable Security

      In the Anthropocene, it is vital for those in power to understand the interplay between drivers of insecurity and act accordingly. But no state is currently equipped to do this. Read more

    • Running Out of Time? Future Prospects for Climate Stability

      Running Out of Time? Future Prospects for Climate Stability

      The recent Conservative UK election victory and the lack of progress in the recent Madrid climate summit have cast doubt over future efforts to reduce global carbon emissions. This briefing assesses the prospects of whether a radical rethink amongst policymakers to mitigating climate breakdown will occur in time. Read more

    • Silent Spring to Strident Summer: The Politics of Global Heating

      Silent Spring to Strident Summer: The Politics of Global Heating

      This briefing tracks the evolution of the ecological movement since the 1960s and of scientific and direct action to respond to the catastrophic threat of climate disruption. Read more

    • Tipping to Rebellion: Action and Reaction on Climate Science

      Tipping to Rebellion: Action and Reaction on Climate Science

      Global climate change is happening faster than most models have predicted and the consequences are likely to be ruinous on a global scale. Yet, as the Extinction Rebellion protests demonstrated, there remains a gulf between an increasingly informed and activist public and established political, security and economic interests. Read more

    • Compound Risks and Sustainable Security
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    • Silent Spring to Strident Summer: The Politics of Global Heating
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    Compound Risks and Sustainable Security

    Compound Risks and Sustainable Security

    In the Anthropocene, it is vital for those in power to understand the interplay between drivers of insecurity and act accordingly. But no state is currently equipped to do this. Read more

    Published: 26th June, 2020

    Updated: 2nd October, 2020

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    Running Out of Time? Future Prospects for Climate Stability

    Running Out of Time? Future Prospects for Climate Stability

    The recent Conservative UK election victory and the lack of progress in the recent Madrid climate summit have cast doubt over future efforts to reduce global carbon emissions. This briefing assesses the prospects of whether a radical rethink amongst policymakers to mitigating climate breakdown will occur in time. Read more

    Published: 18th December, 2019

    Updated: 25th April, 2020

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    A Green Election – If Not Now, When?

    A Green Election – If Not Now, When?

    Ahead of the upcoming UK General Election, this briefing examines the approaches taken by each of the main political parties to tackling climate change and asks whether election campaigns can really achieve long-term policy changes on key issues. Read more

    Published: 27th November, 2019

    Updated: 2nd December, 2019

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    Silent Spring to Strident Summer: The Politics of Global Heating

    Silent Spring to Strident Summer: The Politics of Global Heating

    This briefing tracks the evolution of the ecological movement since the 1960s and of scientific and direct action to respond to the catastrophic threat of climate disruption. Read more

    Published: 30th July, 2019

    Updated: 31st July, 2019

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    Tipping to Rebellion: Action and Reaction on Climate Science

    Tipping to Rebellion: Action and Reaction on Climate Science

    Global climate change is happening faster than most models have predicted and the consequences are likely to be ruinous on a global scale. Yet, as the Extinction Rebellion protests demonstrated, there remains a gulf between an increasingly informed and activist public and established political, security and economic interests. Read more

    Published: 29th April, 2019

    Updated: 1st May, 2019

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    Blueprints for a Green Challenge

    Blueprints for a Green Challenge

    Climate disruption is one of the greatest challenges facing the global community and given the lack of an appropriate response it is going to be essential for some states to take a much more forceful role. Read more

    Published: 23rd January, 2019

    Updated: 3rd January, 2020

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    2018: Passing the Buck

    2018: Passing the Buck

    2018 has been a quieter year than many expected from the high tensions at the end of 2017. Yet the underlying drivers of global conflict have continued to increase. Read more

    Published: 19th December, 2018

    Updated: 20th December, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Climate and environment
    ORG Explains #8: UK Food Security and Climate Change

    ORG Explains #8: UK Food Security and Climate Change

    This primer explains the current situation concerning the United Kingdom’s food supply and how this is likely to change in the medium and long term as a result of climate change. Read more

    Published: 18th December, 2018

    Updated: 19th July, 2019

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • ORG Explains
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    Climate Change, Populism and National Security

    Climate Change, Populism and National Security

    Climate disruption is the human security challenge of our age. With carbon emissions again rising and the world well off course delivering on the commitments it made in Paris three years ago, this briefing looks at this challenge as well as the rising influence of populist nationalism in key countries, including the US and BRIC states. Read more

    Published: 28th November, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    A Tale of Two Puzzles: Accounting for Military and Climate Change Expenditures

    A Tale of Two Puzzles: Accounting for Military and Climate Change Expenditures

    This research paper by Oliver Scanlan, ORG's Climate Fellow, examines the discrepancies between the UK Government’s military expenditures and its direct outlays on climate change mitigation and adaptation, both at home and abroad. Read more

    Published: 28th June, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    ORG Explains #3: UK Energy Security and Climate Change

    ORG Explains #3: UK Energy Security and Climate Change

    This primer explains the UK’s current energy mix, with a focus on how import dependency might affect energy security in the context of rising geopolitical tensions and a changing climate. Read more

    Published: 30th April, 2018

    Updated: 18th June, 2019

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • ORG Explains
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    2017: More than a troubling year?

    2017: More than a troubling year?

    2017 has been a deeply troubling year for international security. Geopolitical tensions between established and aspiring nuclear powers returned with a vengeance, US, Russian, European and Middle Eastern powers doubled down on their roles in foreign wars, and the Trump administration attempted to restore climate change denial to the international mainstream. Read more

    Published: 21st December, 2017

    Updated: 1st June, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Climate and environment
    The case for integrating a Climate Security approach into the National Security Strategy

    The case for integrating a Climate Security approach into the National Security Strategy

    Although climate change is referenced repeatedly in the United Kingdom’s (UK) National Security Strategy (NSS) and Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), there is insufficient detail addressing the full range of security implications of a changing climate for stated Government strategic objectives. Read more

    Published: 30th August, 2017

    Updated: 7th September, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Climate and environment
    Jungle Justice: European Migration Policy Seen from the South

    Jungle Justice: European Migration Policy Seen from the South

    The causal link between food insecurity, climate change, conflict and migration is a contested one, not least because the driving forces of economic inequality and marginalisation are so strong both within and between states. Read more

    Published: 31st October, 2016

    Updated: 4th June, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Africa
    • Climate and environment
    So Much Hot Air: Climate Change After the US Election

    So Much Hot Air: Climate Change After the US Election

    Whether or not he believes his own campaign rhetoric, the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency is bad news for efforts to enforce climate governance and restrain carbon emissions. Yet the global mood is one of determination in the face of US obstinacy, buoyed by technological advances in green energy generation and storage and by the increasingly apparent commercial opportunities presented by a transition away from fossil fuels. Read more

    Published: 30th October, 2016

    Updated: 4th June, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Climate and environment
    Climate Change: Prospects for Effective Future Action

    Climate Change: Prospects for Effective Future Action

    This briefing updates an earlier ORG report on climate change and points to the significance of the recent acceleration in global warming in relation to the need for a radical transition to ultra-low carbon economies world-wide. It examines this in terms of the chances of such a change, not least in the context of the current US presidential election campaign. Read more

    Published: 30th May, 2016

    Updated: 1st June, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Climate and environment
    2015: A Perfect Storm?

    2015: A Perfect Storm?

    The New Year has started with the appalling and traumatic atrocities in Paris and these acts, and their wider context, give an indication of what may be a dominant security issue of 2015 – the developing war in Iraq and Syria with its escalating Western involvement. Read more

    Published: 12th January, 2015

    Updated: 4th June, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Climate and environment
    Fighting Climate Change Denial: Climate Disruption in Perspective

    Fighting Climate Change Denial: Climate Disruption in Perspective

    Oxford Research Group’s work on ‘sustainable security’ is centred on four trends that are likely to influence international and intra-national conflict in the coming decades – climate change, socio-economic divisions, resource scarcities and militarisation. Read more

    Published: 31st July, 2013

    Updated: 1st June, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Climate and environment
    Food Security and Climate Change

    Food Security and Climate Change

    Rising food prices point to a potential crisis later this year as poor communities across the world find themselves unable to afford basic foodstuffs. The crisis now unfolding has some similarities to the major problems that occurred in 2008 that led to food riots in many countries. It also has echoes of the much more severe World Food Crisis in 1973/74. This time, though, there is mounting evidence that climate change is playing a role. Read more

    Published: 30th July, 2012

    Updated: 4th September, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Climate and environment
    After Durban - the Big Climate Change Questions

    After Durban - the Big Climate Change Questions

    The Durban climate change conference produced a higher level of agreement than many analysts predicted, but its response did not match the scale of the problem. Recent evidence indicates that climate change will be a transforming issue in the coming decades and will require responses that embrace radical changes in our understanding of security. Read more

    Published: 1st December, 2011

    Updated: 4th September, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Climate and environment
    Climate Change and Security

    Climate Change and Security

    The consequences of climate change for human security are profound, but much of the last decade has been lost in avoiding those consequences. Read more

    Published: 1st September, 2010

    Updated: 5th September, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Paul Rogers' Briefings
    • Climate and environment
    Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming

    Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming

    This report asks two questions: how dangerous is nuclear power? And can it help reduce CO2 emissions? The short answer to the first questions is ‘very’: nuclear power is uniquely dangerous when compared to other energy sources. For the second question the answer is ‘not enough and not in time’. Read more

    Published: 1st March, 2007

    Updated: 6th June, 2018

    Author: Alasdair McKay

    Related topics:
    • Sustainable Security Programme
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Climate and environment
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    • Security in the DRC and Yemen: Military Conflict, Disease Outbreak and Containment

      Security in the DRC and Yemen: Military Conflict, Disease Outbreak and Containment

      This briefing examines the effect of military conflict on the response (and vice versa) to Ebola and COVID-19 in DRC and Yemen, respectively.

    • Mistrust, Misinformation and Community Engagement: Reflections on lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen

      Mistrust, Misinformation and Community Engagement: Reflections on lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen

      This briefing examines the mistrust, misinformation and community engagement during the Ebola and COVID-19 outbreaks in the DRC and Yemen, respectively.

    • Women’s Experiences of Disease Outbreaks in Conflict: Reflections on lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen

      Women’s Experiences of Disease Outbreaks in Conflict: Reflections on lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen

      This briefing will explore the challenges facing women and girls in each of these contexts. It will first examine the response of the international community in the DRC, and identify key challenges to Congolese women.

    • Background Briefing - Military Conflict, Disease Outbreak and Containment: A Comparative Study of Yemen and DRC

      Background Briefing - Military Conflict, Disease Outbreak and Containment: A Comparative Study of Yemen and DRC

      This is the first briefing in a series released by the Oxford Research Group’s (ORG) Strategic Peacebuilding Programme. These briefings examine the lessons that can be drawn from the response to Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and how they can be applied in the response to COVID-19 in Yemen.

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      The Role of Youth in Peacebuilding: Challenges and Opportunities

      Young people are frequently ‘othered’ in discussions about conflict. This is a dangerous practice as youths can play a very positive role aiding peacebuilding in societies recovering from conflict.

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      Making Bad Economies: The Poverty of Mexican Drug Cartels

      Some stories say that local economies benefit from cartels in Mexico. But research suggests that the areas most plagued by drug-related violence have seriously suffered economically.

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      Remote Warfare: Lessons Learned from Contemporary Theatres

      This report is a first attempt to identify some of the factors that have helped or hindered the UK’s current approach to remote warfare.

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      Weavers of Peace: The Higaonon Tribe in the Philippines

      The Higaonon, an indigenous tribe in Northern Mindanao in the southern Philippines, have preserved an ancient system of conflict resolution which has enabled them to be a truly peaceful community. However, there is a need to ensure that this knowledge is not lost in the future.

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      The Cyprus Problem: Why Solve a Comfortable Conflict?

      Several diplomatic efforts have been made both domestically and internationally to enhance peaceful unity since the start of the Cyprus Problem. Despite the shortcomings of past efforts, it is still desirable not only to resolve the issue, but also to do so in a timely manner.

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      Why Does UN Humanitarian Intervention Remain Selective?

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      This report supports an enhanced role for Britain in UN peace operations and sets out a case for greater engagement.

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      The Expanding Role of Chinese Peacekeeping in Africa

      China's increased involvement in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping in Africa reflects a broader trend of the country taking a more proactive approach to foreign policy.

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