Echoes in the Current: Water, Conflict, and the Elusive Hope for Environmental Peacebuilding in a Warming World

Nov 20, 2025 | Florian Krampe
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A warming climate disrupts the global water cycle with an intensity that alters the very predictability of life. Climate change makes the availability of freshwater dangerously unreliable. The result is a new geography of risk where the likelihood of conflict rises with the floodwaters and spreads with the drought. The modern battlefield is no longer confined to front lines. Instead, it shifts to the riverbanks and farmsteads of the world’s most vulnerable societies.