CALL FOR PAPERS
SAVE THE DATE
Dear CSAC friends and colleagues,
Welcome to the first newsletter of the Climate Security Association of Canada (CSAC) / Association canadienne sur la sécurité climatique (ACSC)! After months of hard work building up our capacity, it is a great pleasure to launch this newsletter which, we hope, will bring our community closer together. This is your newsletter, so we welcome your feedback on how to improve it, but we will also need you to feed its content. If your news, work, or accomplishment is related to our core mission, we will publish it. Our core mission is and remains to enhance our collective capacity as scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and professionals to generate and disseminate knowledge that can inform and guide climate security policy. Barely over a year old, we have already organized three public events and two private workshops that brought together scholars from across the world and colleagues from Global Affairs Canada, the Department of National Defence, the Canadian Armed Forces, NATO, and the UN. In January 2024, we also launched our Fellowship program that mentors the next generation of climate security experts. More is coming. We are planning a workshop on the Arctic (December), on the Indo-Pacific (early 2025), and our annual event (May 2025). Our Fellowship program is being secured for the long term. Multiple research projects are underway. You will certainly hear from us, but also want to hear from you! Visit our website. Follow us on LinkedIn. Share this newsletter and have people sign up for it.
Thank you for your support and contributions and we’ll see you soon!
Bruno Charbonneau
CSAC President
ABOUT US
CSAC was established by a group of Canadian scholars in 2022 and officially launched in March 2023 at the First Inaugural CSAC Conference in Montréal. CSAC approaches the relationships between climate change and security in broad terms, considering challenges to domestic and international peace, security, and development, as well as to human wellbeing and global justice. Effectively addressing these issues requires interdisciplinary theorization, analysis, and policy development, and CSAC aims to provide a forum for such exchange. Our Governing Council includes:
CSAC FELLOWS
The 2024 CSAC Fellowships are funded by SSHRC and three Department of National Defence Mobilizing Insights into Defence and Security (MINDS) research networks. They provide financial support and academic supervision and promote professional development opportunities for graduate students and early career researchers working in the field of climate change and security in or related to Canada.
2024 CSAC Fellows
Recipients of the 2024 CSAC Fellowship presented their research during the CSAC Pacific Climate Security Conference and Career Development Workshop in February 2024. The Fellows include:
Third Annual Conference
Climate Change and the Futures of War and Peace
May 5-6, 2025 | Montreal, Qc, Canada
Climate modelling, risk, threat, and vulnerability assessments, strategic foresight, and similar practices are used to deploy various claims about the future of war and peace under the conditions of climate change. Academic publications, policy papers, think tank products, journalistic accounts, and more are engaged in imagining the future, and by doing so are producing possible and competing futures.
The 2025 Climate Security Association of Canada annual conference seeks to interrogate the possibilities and limits of science and policy worlds in imagining and predicting the future(s) of climate, war, and peace; how framings of climate change futures shape or impact the trajectories of war and peace; the questions that climate change raises about how war and peace can or should be imagined and managed; and how the production of climate security futures are mediated through various technologies, practices, policies, politics, and sociotechnical imaginaries.
CSAC welcomes proposals for conference papers on the following topics:
Please submit your paper title, a 200-word abstract, and a short biography to contact@csac-acsc.org by 3 February 2025.
Conference acceptances will be announced by 21 February 2025. We can provide some financial support for travel and accommodation costs to graduate students and early-career scholars (within 5 years of PhD completion) but cannot guarantee financial support to other participants. For all inquiries, please contact us at contact@csac-acsc.org.
This event is made possible with the support and collaboration of the Centre FrancoPaix of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal and through a MINDS (Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security) Targeted Engagement Grant.
NEWS
News from CSAC members:
PUBLICATIONS
Recent academic publications on climate security from our members and fellows
Recent publications from collaborating organisations and networks
QUESTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
We will publish our newsletter monthly, every second Tuesday of the month. If you have any questions about CSAC or are interested in joining our mailing list, please reach out via our website’s Contact page. You can also follow us on LinkedIn. If you are aware of any grant or fellowship opportunities, career development opportunities, workshops or conferences, other events, or calls for papers that you think might be of interest, please send these to contact@csac-acsc.org. Although we may not be able to include all of these in our newsletters, your contributions would be appreciated.
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