Mission Statement
Climate change and the competition for natural resources have become increasingly important root causes for violent conflicts around the world. The changing environment has also brought about new challenges and threats to regions of the world with precarious living conditions, and it has increased the number of natural disasters, prompting further competition over scarce resources and additional migration flows. Moreover, the exploitation of resources, including oil, gas, timber, minerals, and more, have intensified conflicts in insecure regions of the world that are rich in resources. Finally, increasing intrusions by humans into nature and the unregulated trade of wild and endangered animals have brought forth new diseases and public health threats, including Ebola, MERs, HIV, SARS, Zika virus, and COVID-19, further threatening vulnerable populations and posing a grave challenge to an increasingly globalized and interconnected world.
In light of these changing dynamics, the IIP seeks to increase debate and spread information about the links between these environmental issues and global conflicts to address the underlying causes for violence and promote peaceful conflict resolution that takes into consideration environmental and health factors. Many conflicts have established links to competition over natural resources by domestic and foreign actors, the growing number of natural disasters and increasingly uninhabitable environments due to climate change, and the spread of new, deadly diseases. Understanding these issues and how they can contribute to and exacerbate both new and old conflicts is key to building peace, and the IIP seeks to apply this multidimensional approach to conflict resolution to promote a more peaceful, healthy, and safe world.
Projects and activities:
2023
July 7 | Friedensvermittlung in der Klimakrise als Notwendigkeit für die österreichische Sicherheit
2022
November 22 | COP 27 - Enttäuschung und Hoffnung 🗞️
October 25 | Geopolitics of Climate Change 🎬
October 31 | Energie - Der Schlüssel zur Klimaneutralität 🗞️
October 5 | Eine Welt für alle 🗞️
September 13 | A Better Way to Detect the Origins of a Pandemic 🗞️
August 23 | Klimawandel und die neue Weltordnung 🗞️
May 4 | Dem Frieden eine Chance - Der Menschheit eine Zukunft 🗞️
March 3 | Peacebuilding in the Era of Climate Crisis 🎬
January 18 | Die Corona-Pandemie: Ein Stresstest für liberale Demokratien? 🎬
January 18 | Global Citizenship: An alternative to vaccination-nationalism? 🎬
2021
December 10 | COP26 AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF CLIMATE POLICY 🗞️
September 28 | AFRIKA - EU ENERGIE PARTNERSCHAFT 🗞️
August 11 | Nord Stream 2 – A Contested Pipeline 🗞️
July 30 | ARCHITECTURE, CLIMATE AND PEACE 🗞️
June 1 | EU INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY AS A GEOPOLITICAL INSTRUMENT 🗞️
April 16 | Gerecht impfen in einer ungerechten Welt? 🗞️
February 15 | AFRICA 2021 AND COVID 19 🗞️
February 9 | Globale Impfstrategie statt Impfnationalismus! 🗞️
January 14 | Vaccine geopolitics, ‘big’ and ‘small’, and Europe’s challenge 🗞️
January 5 | Global Catastrophic Risks 2020 🗞️
2020
September 28 | ‘Individual Sovereignty’ in Pandemic Times – A Contradiction in Terms? 🗞️
May 27 | Öffnet die Corona Pandemie Chance für die Klimapolitik?
May 26 | Das Virus, Klimawandel und soziale Ungleichheit
April 27 | COVID-19 and Democratic Backsliding
April 23 | “Herdenimmunität” hat in der Geschichte nicht funktioniert
April 21 | Will the Virus Change Our Future?
April 17 | NATO, Russia, and Covid-19 🗞️
April 8 | Europe Should Choose a Third Way in Combatting Viruses
March 23 | Virus ohne Grenzen - Gesundheit ohne Grenzen
March 19 | The Geopolitical Consequences of the New Oil War
March 16 | Fördert Corona die De-Globalisierung?
March 12 | COVID-19 - rauhe Begegnung mit der Wirklichkeit