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Climate Change and Resource Security in South Asia

Exploring Security Risks of Climate Change

The workshop in joint cooperation with COSATT/Nepal and INSSSL/Sri Lanka will focus on the challenges and effects of climate change on national and regional security in South Asia. It will particular emphasis on the roleof the Security Sector.

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The effects of climate change on national security strategies and modes of operation for armed forces have hardly been

scrutinized adequately. New concepts have to be developed and transnational cooperation to be strengthened.

The workshop wants to contribute to an increased exchange of knowledge within the SAARC region.

Experts from Europe, the US and Australia will share the experience and debates from their home countries.

Among others, the following topics to be discussed with a special focus on resource security and climate change:

  • the shifting geopolitical environment in South Asia and the need for revised national security concepts
  • a revision of strategic and operational concepts for security forces
  • the deepening of civilā€military cooperation to increase the effectiveness of disaster response management
The event further aims at:

  • offering a platform for exchange between representatives from different continents and backgrounds
  • promoting networks of think tanks and experts within Asia and with Europe, the US and Australia
  • paving the way for further transā€regional cooperation
  • conceptualizing adaptation strategies for the security sector in South Asia

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Venue

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Speakers

  • Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
    • Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka
  • Dr Peter Hefele
    • KAS RECAP
  • Dr Nishchal Pandey
    • Director
    • Centre for South Asian Studies
  • Netra Bahadur THAPA
    • Lt. Gen. (retd.)
    • Senior Advisor to the President of Nepal

Publication

Climate change and the security sector in South Asia: Implications for armed forces, politics and society
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Contact

Johannes Vogel

Project manager

US National guard fighting against flood.

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Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS)
The Institute of National Security Studies (INSSSL)