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The relatively new scholarly focus on the interactions of globalization and environmental change in the discussion of the Anthropocene highlight the new context for both human conflicts and peacemaking. They pose daunting questions for scholarly disciplines that can no longer take the geographical situation of their research for granted. In particular, rapid change is now both a matter of economic development and climate disruptions and their interrelatedness. The big question for security scholars has been, “Will climate change cause conflict?” but this now needs to be superseded by a focus on a broader series of questions about institutions and adaptation that get beyond simple notions of resilience as the ability to bounce back after disruptions. In the climate-disrupted world, we are making, more profound questions of how to peacefully transition to a post-carbon fueled civilization need urgent attention. This research cannot avoid tackling the huge economic discrepancies that globalization has wrought, but has to do so sensitive to the specific ways these play out in diverse but interconnected locales.
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Dalby, S. (2022). Peace, Violence and Inequality in a Climate-Disrupted World. In: Mahmoudi, H., Allen, M.H., Seaman, K. (eds) Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79072-1_13
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