This panel examines the increasingly evident intersections between climate change, armed conflict, and the protection of human and environmental rights. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, panelists will discuss and explore how climate-induced stressors interact with existing political and social vulnerabilities to exacerbate conflict and human rights violations.
About the Panelists
Maria Antonia Tigre is the Director of Global Climate Change Litigation at the Sabin Center. She manages the Sabin Center’s Global Climate Change Litigation Database with the support of the Sabin Center’s Peer Review Network of Climate Litigation. Maria Antonia is a leading expert in the field of climate change law and climate litigation, having published dozens of articles on the topic. She also co-heads the Sabin Center and GNHRE’s project on Climate Litigation in the Global South. Her research particularly focuses on rights-based climate litigation, climate litigation in the Global South, and the forthcoming advisory opinions on climate change.
Simon Dalby is a Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University. His published research deals with climate change, environmental security and geopolitics.
He is author of Pyromania: FIre and Geopolitics in a Climate Disrupted World (Agenda, 2024) Rethinking Environmental Security (Edward Elgar 2022), Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability, (University of Ottawa Press, 2020), and co-editor of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Routledge 2019), and Reframing Climate Change: Constructing Ecological Geopolitics (Routledge 2016).
Simon Dalby was educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Victoria and holds a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. Before joining the Balsillie School he was Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Kali Rubaii is a cultural anthropologist at Purdue University whose scholarship focuses on displacement, health justice, and the environmental impacts of war and military supply chains. She leads the Parts Per Million Project and is the author of the forthcoming book, Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq. Through forensic ethnography, Dr. Rubaii’s work bears witness to the violent material impacts of war on people’s lives. Her research aims to sharpen collective strategies for survival where coercive power meets the physical world.
Benjamin Neimark is a Reader in geopolitical ecology at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London and a Fellow at the Transition Security Project. Benjamin is a human geographer and political ecologist whose current research looks at the US military as a global climate actor and, more broadly, the environment footprints of the world’s militaries. He leads a new UKRI grant on military critical mineral supply chains and decarbonisation – which uses a geopolitical ecology lens to examine the critical geopolitical and political economy of large institutions, such as militaries, and their role in multi-scalar environment and climate breakdown. Two recent publications of interest: Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar and Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq.
