2012
December 11-13, 2012
Conference at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan, on "Sustainable Development in South Asia: Shaping the Future". Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Climate Change and Security in South Asia and the Himalaya Region: Cases of Conflict and Cooperation" and by Giovanna Gioli on "Gender and Environmental Migration in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan". Details about this conference are available here.
December 05, 2012
Invited presentation by Tobias Ide on "Climate Change and Violent Conflict: Research positions, methods, results, and problems" at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Halle (Saale), Germany.
November 23, 2012
Arbeitsgruppe "Modellbildung, Simulation und Komplexitätsreduktion" of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, Germany. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Komplexität und Stabilität der Mensch-Umwelt-Interaktion".
November 14, 2012
Conference at the Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik in Berlin, Germany, on "Klimawandel und Sicherheitspolitik - Herausforderungen für Deutschland, Europa und die internationale Gemeinschaft". Presentation by Stefan Schurig (World Future Council) in collaboration with Jürgen Scheffran.
November 13, 2012
Workshop at the Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg, Germany, on "Klimawandel und globale Krisen". Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Klimawandel, Konflikte und menschliche Sicherheit". Further information on this event can be found here and here.
November 13, 2012
Invited presentation by Tobias Ide on "Climate Change and Violent Conflict: A Complex Relationship" for participants of the voluntary ecological gap year of the city of Hamburg, Germany.
November 10, 2012
Workshop "Grenzgänger" in Hamburg, Germany, organized by amnesty internationa, terre des hommes, and UNICEF. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Klimaflüchtlinge". Details about this event can be found here.
October 18-19, 2012
International Conference at the University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, "Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security". Joint presentation by Janpeter Schilling and Jürgen Scheffran on "Climate Change and Violent Conflict in Kenya: A Two-Way Relationship". Participation by Jasmin Kominek and Michael Link. Further details about this conference are available here.
October 15-19, 2012
10th International Conference on Gender and Sustainable Mountain Development in Timphu, Bhutan. Presentation by Giovanna Gioli on "Gender and Environmental Migration in the Upper Indus River Basin". Further information about this event can be found here.
September 20-22, 2012
International workshop "Beyond the sea - Reviewing the manifold dimensions of water as barrier and bridge" in Greifswald, Germany. Presentation by Tobias Ide on "Scarce Water Resources as a Source of Violence? Three Analytical Perspectives and the Missing Discursive Link".
September 10-13, 2012
International Workshop "Towards a Fourth Sustainability Revolution and Sustainable Peace" in Morelos, Mexico. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Cascades and Transitions in Human-Environment Interactions". More information on this event can be found here.
August 26-30, 2012
The 32nd International Geographical Congress takes place in Cologne, Germany. Presentations by Jürgen Scheffran, Michael Link, Janpeter Schilling, Liang Yang, and Keseheng Shu. Details about this event can be found here.
July 01-07, 2012
2012 EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School on Management of International Water in Venice, Italy. Participation by Michael Link. Detailed information about this event are available here.
June 17-18, 2012
DAAD project meeting on climate change and human security at the University of Adger, Kristiansand, Norway. Participation by Jasmin Kominek, Michael Link, Jürgen Scheffran and Janpeter Schilling.
June 14, 2012
Invited presentation by Tobias Ide on "Climate Change and Violent Conflict: Research positions, methods, results, and problems" at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
June 11-12, 2012
Workshop "The Securitization of Climate-Induced Migration: Critical Perspectives" at the University of Hamburg and the Climate Service Center Hamburg. Presentations by Angela Oels on "The vulnerable as becoming dangerous: A Foucaultian perspective on the securitization of climate change induced migration" and by Jürgen Scheffran on "Migration and Climate Adaptation in Regional Contexts". The workshop program can be found here (PDF).
June 06, 2012
Public event "Klimawandel und Flucht" organized by the Flüchtlingsrat Hamburg, Germany. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Causes and Consequences of Climate Change". Further information about this event can be found here.
May 30, 2012
Forum Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik "Weltordnung in Unordnung: Das Friedensgutachten 2012" at the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Rheinland-Pfalz, Festung Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz, Germany. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Climate Change, Migration and Security". Details about this event are available here (PDF).
May 23, 2012
Colloquium at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Climate Change and Climate Engineering: Conflict or Cooperation?" Details about this event can be found here.
May 14-16, 2012
IMPLICC FInal Symposium "The Atmospheric Science and Economics of Climate Engineering via Aerosol Injections" at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. Poster by Jürgen Scheffran on "Potential Pathways, Consequences and Risks of Climate Engineering". More information about this symposium can be found here.
May 11, 2012
International Workshop on Large-Scale Land Acquisitions at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, Germany. Participation of Jürgen Scheffran and of Janpeters Schilling as a discussant. The program of the workshop is available here (PDF).
May 02, 2012
Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in Vienna, Austria. Panel on the Nuclear Weapons Convention, organized by LALANA, INES/INESAP and NAPF. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "The Nuclear Weapons Convention and environmental consequences". Details about this conference can be found here.
May 01, 2012
Round table "Building the Framework for a Nuclear-Weapons Free World: Laying out the Map" at the Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, Austria, organized by the Middle Powers Initiative with support from the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Building the verification mechanisms for a nuclear-weapons-free world". The program of this event is available here.
April 26-29, 2012
30th annual conference of the "Arbeitskreis Geographie der Meere und Küsten (AMK)" in Mainz, Germany. Poster presentation by Michael Link and Jasmin Kominek on "Auswirkungen eines steigenden Meeresspiegels auf die Küstenregionen Ägyptens". Details about this conference are available here (PDF).
April 25, 2012
Annual Festival of the Gemeindeakademie Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany. Public lecture by Jürgen Scheffran on "Konflikt und Kooperation im Klimawandel". Further information about this event can be found here (PDF).
April 02, 2012
Annual Conference of the International Studies Association in San Diego, CA. Presentations by Michael Brzoska on "Climate change and the military in China, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States" and by Jürgen Scheffran on "From Climate Risk Cascades and Tipping Points to Cooperative Sustainability Transitions". Further information about this conference can be found here.
March 21-22, 2012
Young Academics Conference of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedens- und Konfliktforschung" (AFK) (Consortium for Peace- and Conflict Research) in Villingst, Germany .Presentation by Tobias Ide on "Climate Change: Source of Conflict or Promoter of Peace?". The presentations of this event can be found here.
March 19, 2012
MENA Round Table at the City Hall of Hamburg, Germany. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Klimawandel und Energiesicherheit im Mittelmeerraum: Wege zur Zusammenarbeit zwischen EU und MENA". Further details about this event are available here (PDF).
March 05-06, 2012
Interparliamentarian Dialogue on Climate Change in relation to Peace and Security in Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Keynote presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Security Risk, Conflict Sensitivity and Cooperation Potential of Climate Change in Africa". The program of this event can be found here (PDF).
March 02, 2012
Public event "Rio + 20 - Handeln für Transformation und Nachhaltigkeit zwischen Kapitalismus, Krise und Krieg" in Berlin, Germany, with Michael Müller, Hermann Ott and Jürgen Scheffran. Details about this event are available here (PDF).
March 02, 2012
Hearing of the Committee on Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Political and Social Stresses of the National Research Council, Washington, DC. Online presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Conflict Sensitivity in Climate Hot Spots". Further information can be found here.
February 28, 2012
Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran at the University of Wisconsin Public Utility Institute and European Union Center in Madison, WI, on "Renewable Energy Transition and International Climate Cooperation - the German Experience". Further information about this event are availalbe here (PDF) and here.
February 24-28, 2012
2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York, NY (USA). CLISEC presentations by Michael Link on "On foes and flows: Water conflict and cooperation in the Nile River Basin in times of climate change", by Janpeter Schilling on "Climate Change, Fragility and Adaptation in Kenya", and by Jürgen Scheffran on "Potential Pathways, Risks and Conflicts of Climate Engineering". Michael Link and Jürgen Scheffran, together with Tracy van Holt (East Carolina University) are co-organizing a panel on "Climate change, environmental conflict and societal stability". Janpeter Schilling is co-organizing a panel on "Climate change in fragile states". Participation by Jasmin Kominek. Details about the conference can be found here.
February 13-15, 2012
Pakistan - India Track II Dialogue on Climate Change for Peace. Keynote presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Climate Change as a non-traditional Security Threat - from Conflict to Cooperation in South Asia". The program and confrence results can be found here.
February 10, 2012
Third ZNF/IFSH Workshop "Wege aus der Gewalt" at the Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. Presentations by Janpeter Schilling on "Climate Change and Conflicts in Northwestern Kenya" and by Jürgen Scheffran on "Migration and climate adaptation: contribution to conflict resolution in Northwest Africa". The program of this event is available here (PDF).
January 27, 2012
Janpeter Schilling and co-author Moses Akuno win the 2011/2012 Case Study in Peacebuilding Competition of the United States Institute of Peace. Their contribution to the competition was the case study "Raiding the Future: Impacts of Violent Livestock Theft on Development and an Evaluation of Conflict Mitigation Approaches in Northwestern Kenya". Details about the competition can be found here (PDF).
January 27, 2012
Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Klimawandel und Sicherheit: Konfliktpotenzial und Kooperation im Mittelmeerraum" at the Bonn International Convention Center in Bonn, Germany. Further details about this event are available here (PDF).
January 09, 2012
Seminar "Ausgewählte Probleme der Bewertung moderner Biotechnologien in der Landwirtschaft" at the Biozentrum Klein Flottbek of the University of Hamburg. Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran on "Nachhaltigkeitsforschung zur Energiegewinnung aus Biomasse".