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Global Outlook Articles by Volker Boege
Volker Boege is Toda Peace Institute's Senior Research Fellow for Climate Change and Conflict. Dr. Boege has worked extensively in the areas of peacebuilding and resilience in the Pacific region. He works on post-conflict peacebuilding, hybrid political orders and state formation, non-Western approaches to conflict transformation, environmental degradation and conflict, with a regional focus on Oceania.
COP 29: The Climate-Peace Nexus Was on the Agenda, But …
By Volker Boege | 23 November, 2024
While international public attention is on the COP negotiations about money, other issues also play a role in Baku, including the climate-peace nexus.
COP28 – Massive Disappointments, Slight Glimmers of Hope
By Volker Boege | 03 January, 2024
While many expectations were not met at COP28 and Pacific delegates expressed deep disappointment, there were minor bright spots.
Fairness and Climate Justice in the Face of Unimaginable Consequences
By Volker Boege | 28 November, 2023
As COP28 is about to begin, this article highlights the major concerns and demands of Pacific Island nations.
COP28, Peace and the Pacific Islands
By Volker Boege | 30 October, 2023
An introduction to Toda Peace Institute's new Global Outlook series on COP28: hopes, expectations and reality.
Filling the Basket of Knowledge: Workshop on Climate Change, Human Mobility and Peacebuilding in the Pacific
By Volker Boege | 14 November, 2022
A recent workshop held in Wellington, New Zealand, explored the consequences of the hellish climate change scenario for the security and peace of communities and countries in the Pacific region. At the same time, participants searched for pathways off the highway to hell, tapping into the expertise and experiences of a diverse group of policymakers, practitioners and researchers from the Pacific and beyond.
Pacific Leaders Urge Re-Focus on Climate Emergency
By Volker Boege | 29 September, 2022
At the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2022, the leaders of the small island – or ‘big ocean’ – countries in the Pacific called for a re-focus on the global climate emergency. Using their moral authority, which is grounded in the fact that their countries are the ones most affected by this emergency while contributing hardly anything to its causes, Pacific leaders demanded more decisive climate action and put forward new proposals and initiatives.
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