CSAC Newsletter
December 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

CSAC Newsletter
October 2024

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:

 

  • Bruno Charbonneau, CSAC President, Professor, Royal Military College Saint-Jean, and Director, Centre FrancoPaix of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair, Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Tom Deligiannis, CSAC Vice-President and Lecturer, Department of Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Will Greaves, CSAC Treasurer and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria
  • Gabrielle Daoust, CSAC Board Member and Assistant Professor, Department of Global and International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia
  • Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, CSAC Board Member and Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, Bishop's University

 

 

 

 

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:

 

  • Alexandre Courtemanche, MA in Political Science, Université du Québec à Montréal. Alexandre’s research focuses on the impact of climate change on Canada's defense posture in the Arctic and the link between human security and the militarization of the Canadian Arctic.
  • Emma Fingler, PhD in Political Studies, Queen’s University. Emma is a SSHRC-funded doctoral candidate researching gender, disaster response operations, and Women, Peace, and Security in South and Southeast Asia.
  • Jonas Goldman, Senior Research Associate, Net-Zero Industrial Policy Lab, Johns Hopkins University. Jonas’ work recent research areas include clean energy security, such as critical minerals supply chain mapping, and global industrial policy.
  • Burgess Langshaw-Power, PhD in Global Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs. Burgess’ research explores the governance of climate interventions such as solar geoengineering and the challenges of solar geoengineering at different levels of governance.
  • Aly Tkachenko, PhD in International Relations and Canadian Politics, University of Victoria. Aly is interested in questions regarding the intersection of environmental policy and military operations, environmental protest and resistance, and issues affecting Canada’s Pacific coast. 

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:

 

  • Climate change and the future of war
  • Climate change and the future of humanitarian intervention, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding
  • Climate change and the future of the military (i.e. where, when, with whom, with what and/or for what ends militaries are deployed)
  • The impact of climate change on intelligence, risk and threat assessment, or strategic foresight
  • The technological and political possibilities and limits of predicting climate security futures
  • The politics and/or ethics of future-making or worldmaking
  • The policy implications of future-making and predictive capabilities

 

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:

 

  • On 4 December 2024, Bruno Charbonneau delivered a presentation on the interconnections between climate change, biodiversity and the security sector as part of a virtual meeting organised by Global Affairs Canada's Open Insights Hub.

 

  • On November 23, 2024, Will Greaves participated in the 70th annual session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, held in Montreal, QC, as the moderator of the panel on 'NATO and Strategic Competition in the Arctic.' The other two panelists were Heather A. Conley from the German Marshall Fund and Mathieu Bussières from the NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE).

 

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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