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Titre : Mechanisms of ’Climate Conflict’ : The Relevance of Local Contexts for Understanding the Relationship Between Climate Change and Communal Conflict in Chad

Auteur : Scholte, Daniël

Université de soutenance : Universiteit Leiden

Grade : Master thesis | Crisis and Security Management (MSc) 2018

Descriptif
This research is presented in five chapters. In Chapter 2, main concepts are defined and relevant environmental security literature is reviewed. The chapter first discusses academic debates on climate-conflict links. It then provides a few hypotheses with regard to mediating mechanisms, followed by a summary of empirical studies. Next, I introduce first the Sahel and then Chad as a way of setting the scene. In Chapter 3, variables are conceptualized and operationalized and the chosen research design is explained, a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Results are presented in Chapter 4 in two separate sections. First, the results of the quantitative analysis are presented. Subsequently, I summarize several communal conflicts, which are the focus of the qualitative analysis, and describe mediating mechanisms. Finally, in Chapter 5, I discuss main findings and limitations, and suggest possible avenues for future research.

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