PUBLICATIONS
Monitoring resilience in the EU
20 November 2023 - This report analyses the dashboards and the latest set of synthetic resilience indices for the EU and each Member State, highlighting resilience vulnerabilities and capacities across the four dimensions and fourteen underlying areas. ...The report contains the first in-depth empirical analysis of resilience patterns in the EU ... and reveals that the EU’s current resilience capacities are considerably higher relative to the previous decade on average, while its resilience vulnerabilities have remained broadly similar.
National civil–military health collaboration framework for strengthening health emergency preparedness: WHO guidance document
2021 - This report aims to provide guidance to improve collaboration between the public health and military sectors, under the International Health Regulations of 2005. Key elements for effective civil military health collaboration for the development of national core capacity to prevent, detect, respond to and recover from health emergencies are highlighted, including (a) establishing a strategic collaboration plan for health emergency preparedness; (b) acknowledging differences between the public health sector and military health services; (c) identifying technical areas for collaboration based on the national core capacities for health emergency preparedness; (d) institutionalizing civil– military health collaboration; and (e) jointly building and training for civil–military health emergency preparedness capacities.
NATO 2022 Strategic Concept
2022 - NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept represents an increasing emphasis on climate change, including it in 7 of the 49 main points outlined, up from 1 in the 2010 version. Notably, crisis prevention and management is one of NATO’s three core tasks, and the Strategic Concept notes the climate crisis’s effect as a threat multiplier.
New Avenues for Peace and Climate Resilience in the Sahel: A Dialogue with Practitionersand Decision-Makers in Times of Political Upheaval - Event Report
November 2023 - Building upon the projects, the event hoped to contribute to the development of strategies that integrate environmental and governance considerations into peacemaking, natural resourcemanagement, and climate resilience in the Sahel.
Policy Review – 2021-2022 U.S. Defense Climate Highlights
14 November 2022 - Following the Biden Administration’s issuance of Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, and Executive Order 14057, Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability, the Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise, including the Departments of the Air Force, Army, and Navy have all issued climate strategies to outline the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change.
Protecting People, Planet and Peace: Shaping the Future of the Security Sector
18 September 2023 - This chapeau report from DCAF's stocktaking study on climate security and SSG/R explores security sector roles in climate and environmental security, drawing lessons from Brazil, the occupied Palestinian territory, the Philippines, and Sierra Leone. It focuses on the potential for SSG/R programming to improve service delivery of security institutions with regards to mitigating the impact of climate and environmental risks on people, planet, and peace. Moreover, the report presents opportunities for strengthening social cohesion and contributing to sustainable peace via SSG/R.
Rationale for Military Involvement in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
December 2019 - Good relations and trust are the foundation of soft power diplomacy and are essential for the accomplishment of domestic interventions and any bilateral or multilateral endeavour. Military use for assistance and relief is not a novel concept, but it has increased since the early 1990s with many governments choosing to provide greater numbers of forces and assets to assist domestically and internationally. The increase is due to the growing lack of capacity in global humanitarian networks and increasingly inadequate resources available to undertake United Nations humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) missions.
Regional Consultation for the South Caucasus: Azerbaijan and Georgia: Co-operation opportunities for addressing the security implications of climate change
July 2021 - The OSCE, in partnership with adelphi, has embarked since 2020 on a new extra-budgetary financed project “Strengthening responses to security risks from climate change in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia” (Project Number: 1102151). This project builds on the results of an earlier OSCE project “Climate Change and Security in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the South Caucasus”, which was led by the OSCE and implemented together with the Environment and Security (ENVSEC) Initiative partners and with support of the European Union Instrument for Stability and the Austrian Development Agency.
Responding to Disasters
April 2021 - The chapter proposes “a thorough reconceptualization of disaster response efforts and their incorporation into the mainstream of NATO activities, as the relevant needs are expected to mount in the coming years.” and contains nine specific recommendations.
Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military
2016 - When crisis requires American troops to deploy on American soil, the country depends on a rich and evolving body of law to establish clear lines of authority, safeguard civil liberties, and protect its democratic institutions and traditions. Since the attacks of 9/11, the governing law has changed rapidly even as domestic threats—from terror attacks, extreme weather, and pandemics—mount. Soldiers on the Home Front is the first book to systematically analyze the domestic role of the military as it is shaped by law, surveying America’s history of judicial decisions, constitutional provisions, statutes, regulations, military orders, and martial law to ask what we must learn and do before the next crisis
States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security
March 2022 - Under what circumstances might climate change lead to negative security outcomes? Over the past fifteen years, a rapidly growing applied field and research community on climate security has emerged. While much progress has been made, we still don't have a clear understanding of why climate change might lead to violent conflict or humanitarian emergencies in some places and not others. Busby develops a novel argument – based on the combination of state capacity, political exclusion, and international assistance – to explain why climate leads to especially bad security outcomes in some places but not others.
Stocktaking of Security Sector Roles in Climate and Environmental Security - Brazil
26 May 2023 - This third report from DCAF's stocktaking study on climate security and Security Sector Governance and Reform (SSG/R) explores security sector roles in climate and environmental security in Brazil. It focuses on the potential for SSG/R programming to improve service delivery of security institutions with regard to mitigating the impact of climate and environmental risks on communities and the planet. Moreover, the report presents opportunities for strengthening social cohesion and contributing to sustainable peace via SSG/R.