Anne Funnemark
Junior Research FellowAnne Funnemark is a Junior Research Fellow at NUPI. She is a part of the Climate-related Peace and Security Risks (CPSR) project and the MCDC Climsec project, feeding into the work of the Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development and the Research Group on Security and Defense respectively.
Anne completed her postgraduate degree in International Human Rights Law (LLM) at the University of Edinburgh in 2020, writing her project-based dissertation for the Political Settlements Research Programme. Her research interests include climate change and conflict, international environmental law and climate justice, and human rights in peace settlements. Anne also holds a MA in International Relations from the University of Edinburgh, and has previously been engaged in climate and environmental research and advocacy in Scotland.
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Climate, Peace and Security: Sudan
Sudan is severely exposed to climate change. As one of the world’s least developed countries, extreme weather, recurrent floods and droughts, and changing precipitation interact with other vulnerabilities – such as ecosystem degradation, unsustainable agricultural practices, natural resource scarcities... -
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Climate, Peace and Security in Sudan
16.05.2022In this new Fact Sheet, researchers from NUPI and SIPRI’s joint Climate-related Peace and Security Project (CPSR) explore the nexus between climate change and security in Sudan. -
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Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet Sudan
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Grappling with and Adapting to Climate Change in South Sudan
Almost a decade since the conflict in South Sudan commenced, the conflict has become further fragmented, with indiscriminate violence across the country being highly varied. Playing into these complex conflict dynamics are the impacts of climate change,which may further grievances and tensions. South... -
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Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Iraq
• Increasing temperatures, decreasing water availability and greater inter-annual variability in rainfall negatively affect agriculture, reduce household income and food availability, and exacerbate livelihood insecurity. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the adverse effects of climate... -
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Climate, Peace and Security in Iraq
05.04.2022In this new Fact Sheet, researchers from NUPI and SIPRI’s joint Climate-related Peace and Security (CPSR) Project explore the nexus between climate change and security in Iraq. -
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Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet Iraq
05.04.2022Iraq is highly vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. The country’s vulnerability is shaped by its physical exposure, a strong natural resource dependency and low adaptive capacity due to violent conflict, poverty, political instability and corruption. Iraq is particularly exposed to floods, droughts... -
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Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: South Sudan
Unpredictable annual variations in extreme weather events, like flooding and droughts, affect agriculture-dependent communities and influence pastoralist mobility patterns and routes. Such changes may intensify the risk of tensions between herders and farmers, often in connection with land, grazing,... -
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How does climate change affect peace and security in South Sudan?
11.03.2022In this newly released fact sheet from the project Climate-related Peace and Security Risks (CPSR), experts look at how South Sudan is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. -
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Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet South Sudan
11.03.2022The recent flooding in South Sudan is the worst in over 60 years. South Sudan is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including droughts and flooding. Both long-term climate change, such as the gradual increase in temperatures, and short-term extreme climate events, like increased flooding,... -
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Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Afghanistan
Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change: rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Currently, Afghanistan is experiencing its worst drought in 27 years, which, compounded with COVID-19 and the economic contraction... -
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Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet, Afghanistan
08.02.2022Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change: rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Currently, Afghanistan is experiencing its worst drought in 27 years, which, compounded with COVID-19 and the economic contraction... -
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Climate change, peace and security in Afghanistan
07.02.2022How does climate change affect peace and security in Afghanistan? NUPI and SIPRI, under the Climate-related Peace and Security Risks project have published a new fact sheet on this topic. Read it here. -
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Preventing climate-related conflict: A challenge for cross-disciplinary research, policy and practice?
10.12.2021Climate-related peace and security risks are receiving increased attention on the international arena. But how do we ensure that different academic disciplines work together on the challenge of preventing future wars on conflict related to climate change? NUPI and SIPRI’s joint Climate-Related Peace... -
Research project
Climate-related Peace and Security Risks (CPSR)
2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are collaborating on a climate, peace and security project that is aimed at backstopping the work of Norway during their period as an elected member of the Security Council.