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Building Peace in a Changing Climate : Positive Peace through Climate Adaptation in Post-Natural Resource Conflict Communities

Climate adaptive strategies seek to minimize harms of climate change. Scholarly research has yet to examine the impact of these strategies in post-conflict communities, especially with regard to whether they might contribute to fostering greater overall well-being, or positive peace. This thesis seeks to address this gap and adopts the research question, how does climate adaptation impact positive peace in post-natural resource conflict communities? I hypothesize that climate adaptation is likely to contribute to positive peace in post-natural resource conflict communities by reducing environmental stressors through strengthened natural resource management. Theoretically, climate adaptation provides the capacity for local communities to strengthen natural resource management, which enables them to cope with the effects of climate change. This in turn, reduces environmental stressors and allows communities to better meet local needs and foster positive peace. Using a qualitative method of structured focused comparison, I collect empirics from two districts in post-natural resource conflict Rwanda (after 2002) to test how climate adaptation impacts positive peace at the local level. Although findings show little evidence that climate adaptation drives positive peace, results indicate that such programs may be poised to contribute to lessened environmental stress through strengthened natural resource management.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-324965
Date January 2017
CreatorsNicoson, Christie
PublisherUppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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