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Managing climate, peace and security risks from the borderlands of the West African Sahel Belt

This project examines the factors that influence the effectiveness of efforts to prevent and manage climate change-related peace and security risks.

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Lead researcher: Cedric De Coning

Partner: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

Duration: September 2025 – December 2026

Countries: Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, Niger

The project looked specifically at the 2018 Regional Strategy for the Stabilization, Recovery and Resilience (RS-SRR) of the Boko Haram-affected Areas of the Lake Chad Basin Region. The RS-SRR is interesting because it is not a traditional top-down counter-insurgency campaign but a broader framework guiding regional stabilisation, recovery, and resilience through shared principles and partnerships.

The CPS-Lake Chad research project investigates the implementation of the RS-SRR to enhance our understanding of whether and how local, national, regional, and international initiatives undertaken in support of the strategy have contributed to preventing and managing climate-related peace and security risks between 2018 and 2024. The goal is to extract insights into the factors that influence the effectiveness of efforts to prevent and manage climate-related risks to peace and security to guide future efforts in the Lake Chad Basin region and similar contexts.

 For more information regarding this research, contact [email protected]

Research outputs

BRIEFING PAPER

20th January 2026

What does a Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) – undertaken for the climate, peace and security risks in the Lake Chad region – tell us about utilising c...

RESEARCH REPORT

3rd February 2026

What does a Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) – undertaken for the climate, peace and security risks in the Lake Chad region – tell us about utilising c...

BLOG

10th June 2025

A new research project will develop a set of principles and factors that influence the effectiveness of efforts to prevent and manage climate-related ...

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