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Linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding and conflict prevention - Policy Brief

Linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding and conflict prevention

However, integrating climate change adaptation and peacebuilding remains a challenge for practitioners. This policy brief outlines the key issues that must be resolved in order to make progress towards a more holistic approach and greater resilience.

Climate change resilience can be strengthened through:

  • Absorptive capacity or mechanisms for coping with shocks (e.g. early harvest to reduce food insecurity);
  • Adaptive capacity, or the ability of a system to adjust, modify or change itself to mitigate future changes (e.g. introducing drought-resistant seeds), and:
  • Transformative capacity, or the ability to create a fundamentally new system that is not susceptible to climate change impacts (e.g. conflict-resolution mechanisms).