Climate Change, Peace and Security: Understanding Climate-Related Security Risks Through an Integrated Lens

This course unpacks the interlinkages between climate change, peace and security and explores opportunities for promoting inclusive climate action, conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

What will you learn? To identify climate-related security risks and their impacts on different groups of people To conduct integrated conflict and climate analysis, including by using a gender and social inclusion lens To design policies, strategies, and programmatic interventions that integrate climate change, conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and gender equality objectives Who is this course for? Everyone is invited to take the course, which is designed to benefit a broad range of policymakers, practitioners and researchers. The more advanced modules are particularly relevant for: Political analysts and peacebuilding practitioners Climate adaptation specialists Gender and inclusion advisors Will you get a certificate? The course features two levels of certification: Participants will receive a badge for each module they complete by passing the module’s final quiz. Participants who pass all three final quizzes will be issued a certificate of completion. A quiz is successfully passed at a score of 70% or higher. Completion certificates will be available for download from the course’s webpage.