Workshop: Climate Loss, Conflict and Peace: Relational Responses to Existential Crisis

Climate Loss, Conflict and Peace:

Relational Responses to Existential Crisis

Hamburg: 16-18 September 2024

This international workshop explored how relational responses play out in various thematic areas of significance for the climate/conflict/peace nexus, with a particular focus on the issue of loss.  While questions of loss and damage have increasingly drawn attention in international climate discourses, interpretations of what is meant by climate loss, however, diverge.  

The workshop built on previous workshops organised by the Toda Peace Institute and local partners in Auckland in 2018, Tokyo 2019, Suva/online 2020, Wellington 2022, and Canberra 2023.  It ran for two and a half days (16 to 18 September) in Hamburg and was attended in-person by scholars and experts from the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Scandinavia and Germany, with a few others joining online.

The workshop was co-organised by the Toda Peace Institute and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), in collaboration with the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) and the Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC) at Universität Hamburg.

A report on the workshop will be published in due course.

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