The Climate-Conflict Nexus

With Helene Maria Kyed and Justine Chambers, both social anthropologists and senior researchers at the Danish Institute for International Studies, and Ah Lynn, researcher from northwest Myanmar. This fortnight on episode 65 of What's Happening in Myanmar, parliament is set to convene as rumours persist about potential appointments, including Min Aung Hlaing taking the presidency, a fuel crisis hits the petrol pumps in reaction to the widening war in the Middle East, and we discuss the climate change-conflict nexus and how people are experiencing climate change in Myanmar.

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Timecodes—

(00:00) Opening

(02:09) Dates of parliament announced

(04:00) Fuel crisis and military assuagement

(06:48) With Helene Maria Kyed, Justine Chambers, & Ah Lynn, the climate-conflict nexus

(17:17) New special issue with climate research

(36:25) Challenges in mitigating and adapting to effects of climate change

(49:11) Close

Our guests—

Helene Maria Kyed and Justine Chambers, social anthropologists and senior researchers at the Danish Institute for International Studies
And Ah Lynn, a senior researcher from northwest Myanmar

The MyCClimate project

New original content on the Frontier website:

Rakhine relapse: Yaba returns to wartorn communities in western Myanmar
War is turning Rakhine State into a mine field
Down and out in Sagaing: IDPs struggle to survive in central Myanmar
Q&A: 'You don't know what's going to come next'

Referenced this episode:

The IJBS' special issue on climate change and conflict

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