PUBLICATIONS
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.
Safer Together: Strengthening Europe’s Civilian and MilitaryPreparedness and Readiness
30 October 2024 - The report underlines the need for an ambitious new approach to our preparedness and readiness. To this end, it presents around 80 recommendations for both short-term and medium to long-term actions.
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.
Stocktaking Of Security Sector Roles In Climate And Environmental Security - Occupied Palestinian Territory
December 2022 - This first report from the stocktaking study on climate security and Security Sector Governance and Reform (SSG/R) explores security sector roles in climate and environmental security in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, especially 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 communities and the planet, as well as opportunities for strengthening social cohesion and contributing to sustainable peace.
Stocktaking of Security Sector Roles in Climate and Environmental Security - Sierra Leone
3 May 2023 - This second 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 Sierra Leone. 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.
Strategy on Defence and Climate Change
March 2024 - The Strategy on Defence and Climate Change aims to conceptually prepare the Federal Ministry of De- fence and its area of responsibility for the impacts of climate change and to initiate appropriate measu- res which ensure full and continued operational readiness for future mission accomplishment. To this end, eight fields of action have been identified which contribute to achieving the aim of this Strategy
Sustainability and Climate Action Strategy for the Area of Responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defence
Decemeber 2024 - Sustainability and Climate Action Strategies for a Federal Ministry of Defence (e.g., Germany) aim to prepare the military for climate change impacts, reduce its own environmental footprint, and promote adaptation through planning, operations, and infrastructure. Key elements include adapting defence planning to account for climate change, integrating sustainability into operations, adopting sustainable transport and energy solutions, conserving biodiversity, and enhancing resilience of infrastructure and supply chains to extreme weather and resource scarcity.
Swarm Leadership in Times of Crisis
October 2017 - A reflection on leadership lessons of crisis management from the leaders of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative