Connecting Disasters and Climate Change to the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus. Issue 3 (December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mena, Rodrigo; Brown, Summer; Peters, Laura E. R.; Kelman, Ilan; Ji, Hyeonggeun
• Other Names: Abitbol Eric guest-editor.; McCandless Erin guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of peacebuilding & development. Volume 17:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 324
• Page End: 340
• Publication Date: 2022-12
• Subjects: climate change -- disaster -- humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HDP) -- triple nexus -- peacebuilding; Peace-building -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 327.172
• DOI: 10.1177/15423166221129633
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1542-3166

Abstract

As climate change increasingly affects the world, much is said about the rising amounts of aid required to support emergency response, long-term development to adapt, and peacebuilding to ensure that conflict does not undermine these efforts. Bringing these ideas together, some advocate for the addition of a separate climate change stream into the humanitarian, development, and peace/peacebuilding nexus (or triple nexus). Based on a critical literature review and synthesis, this article articulates and conceptualizes how climate change perspectives and actions should be integrated into the existing streams of the humanitarian, development, and peace/peacebuilding nexus, rather than being added as a separate stream. The analysis shows the risks of adding climate change as a stand-alone stream and advocates for developing long-term strategies that integrate climate change actions into humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding efforts to better serve all three.