Climate Change and Violence

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course is designed to allow students to think about issues of violence and peace as they occur in the midst of a worsening climate crisis. It aims to introduce students to a number of key ideas in a series of interconnected literatures, with a particular focus on climate driven conflicts, environmental peacebuilding and climate justice. The class will help to build the skills and knowledge to understand climate change as a multi-faceted conflict dynamic as well as to think about how we can design just and equitable solutions to both the global climate emergency and situations of violent conflict. Each student will produce a final paper analyzing an issue of climate violence of interest to them.