Conversations in Conflict Studies Presents Maria Cudowska and Tobias T. Gibson

PARCC’s Conversations in Conflict Studies presents “Problems without Passports” – Climate-induced migration from a national security perspective.

William J. Burns, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency called the climate crisis “a problem without a passport.” While climate hazards are expected to rise and continue to result in dire consequences for communities worldwide, such hazards also trigger a different problem—migration. Unlike climate change mitigation and decarbonization, migration has not been addressed with an appropriate level of scrutiny from policymakers and local communities. National security demands such a level of scrutiny to be paid to internal climate-migration.