Internal Conflicts in Africa: Climate Change Vulnerability and Violent Conflicts

Mgr. Martin Schmiedl

Doctoral thesis

Abstract:

Africa is in the spotlight of many scholars in case of climate change. Furthermore, very often many scholars connect climate change with the rise of the conflicts on the continent. However, these conclusions could be sometimes overly simplistic and miss the complex reality of the mutual interaction. This dissertation focuses on climate change vulnerability and conditions that turns vulnerability into violent internal conflicts. With use of various theories (Environmental Security, Political Ecology etc.) and inter-disciplinary approach it evaluates influence of climatic vulnerability in African countries and other political, social and structural variables on conflict incidence. It concludes that in case of violent civil conflicts it is mainly political marginalisation together with regime instability or government ineffectiveness and rather bad access to land while in case of violent inter-communal conflicts it is marginalisation or fear of marginalisation that is often connected with political strategies of elites and politicisation of topics such as access to land.

Keywords

Conflicts, Climate Change, Environmental Security, Political Ecology, Africa

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 13. 7. 2023

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 8. 11. 2023
• Vedúci: prof. PhDr. Maxmilián Strmiska, Ph.D.
• Oponent: Kateřina Ženková Rudincová, Alessio Iocchi

University of Hradec Králové

Faculty of Arts

Doctoral programme / odbor:
Politologie / Africká studia