Call for Papers

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.

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