Tobias Ide

TL;DR: The authors showed that research on climate change and violent conflict suffers from a streetlight effect, where studies which focus on a small number of cases in particular are strongly informed by cases where there has been conflict, do not sample on the independent variables (climate impact or risk), and hence tend to find some association between these two variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the question why intergroup conflicts over scarce, renewable resources in peripheral areas of the global South escalate into violence and propose a method of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to detect patterns of conjunctural causation.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the spatial distribution of the factors commonly associated with a high exposure and vulnerability to climate change, and a high risk of violent conflict onset in Kenya and Uganda, and developed various specifications of a composite risk index (CRI) with a spatial resolution of half a degree for the year 2008.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that climate-related disasters increase the risk of armed conflict onset and find that countries with large populations, political exclusion of ethnic groups, and a low level of human development are particularly vulnerable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that one reason for the disagreement is a lack of integrative cumulation of knowledge, which is prevented by three obstacles, which have until now hardly been discussed in the literature.