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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: When the perpetrator is the climate
Description: Climate change and armed conflict increasingly intersect in humanitarian settings. While the sector is now alert to climate-related risks – particularly in disaster response, resilience programming, and displacement governance – the ways these risks are interpreted and operationalized vary across institutional mandates and operational contexts. In protection practice within conflict-affected settings, climate impacts are still often framed primarily as “conflict multipliers” rather than direct drivers of civilian harm. This narrow lens risks overlooking the very insecurities communities experience most acutely: displacement, restricted movement, isolation, and livelihood collapse.
In this post, researcher and former ICRC delegate Lina Aburas argues that our current conflict-centered analysis...