OUR FELLOWS AND COLLEAGUES' ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Congratulations to Burgess Langshaw Power and Aly Tkachenko, two CSAC Research Fellows whose policy briefs were recently published by the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN)!
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:
Congratulations to Aly Tkachenko, who recently received a MINDS (Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security) Doctoral Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Department of National Defence!
Congratulations to Dr Lloyd Chubbs, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled ‘Environmental Management in International Organizations: The Case of NATO’, at Erasmus University Rotterdam on 9 January 2025!
EVENTS
The Leadersphere 2025 Conference on the theme ‘Turbulence: Canada Facing the Climate Crisis’ will take place on February 25 at Royal Military College Saint-Jean, Québec, co-hosted with the NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate Change and Security. See here to register. CSAC will be well-represented at the conference by Bruno Charbonneau, Will Greaves, Tom Deligiannis, and Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé.
NEWS
CSAC President Bruno Charbonneau and CSAC Vice-President Tom Deligiannis presented their work and that of the Research Task Group SAS-182 at the annual NATO roundtable on Climate Change and Security in Brussels on 16 January 2025
PUBLICATIONS
Minko, A. E. (2025) Le Soudan au cœur de la crise : défis humanitaires et stratégies pour une réponse durable.
Bulletin Francopaix 10(1). Centre FrancoPaix, Chaire Raoul-Dandurand, UQAM.
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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