Montréal, Canada
Climate Security Association of Canada
Montreal, Canada
CSAC Newsletter
November 2024
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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.
Climate Change and the Futures of War and Peace
May 5-6, 2025 | Montreal, Qc, Canada
Our next annual conference will be held in Montreal on May 5-6, 2025. ‘Climate Change and the Futures of War and Peace’ will explore how climate change raises questions about how national and collective security problems can, and should be, imagined and managed. The conference will discuss the production of climate security futures under the conditions of climate change by emphasizing the roles of technology, security practices and politics, and sociotechnical imaginaries in the conceptualization of management tools and practices that are meant to respond to the security consequences of climate change.
NEWS
Montreal Climate Security Summit
October 29-30, 2024 | Montreal, Qc, Canada
Bruno Charbonneau, Will Greaves, and Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé along with CSAC Fellow Burgess Langshaw-Power attended the 3rd Montreal Climate Security Summit, co-hosted by the NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE) and the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute. This high-level forum brings together practitioners, policymakers, decision makers, and researchers to discuss climate security trends, policies, and initiatives across and beyond the NATO Alliance.
News from CSAC members:
- Will Greaves has been appointed to the Defence Advisory Board, the civilian advisory body to Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff and the Deputy Minister of National Defence
- Bruno Charbonneau delivered a talk on climate change and its implications for Canada at the Canada School of Public Service on November 5 in Ottawa
- Will Greaves delivered a talk titled ‘Beyond a bed for a night: The limits of humanitarianism for responding to domestic disasters’ as part of the Climate Change Displacement Dialogue series on October 23 at York University
News from CSAC fellows:
- Burgess Langshaw-Power has been awarded the prestigious Cadieux-Léger Fellowship, awarded annually to a doctoral student undertaking research on a topic of relevance to Global Affairs Canada
- Burgess Langshaw-Power also presented at the 2024 SRM Social Science Workshop: Cooperative vs. Noncooperative Climate Interventions run by Resource for the Future and the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program on September 19-20
PUBLICATIONS
Recent academic publications on climate security
- Charbonneau, B. (2024) The production of climate security futures in the West African Sahel. African Affairs.
- Selby, J., Daoust, G., Dutta, A., Gamu, J. K., Marijnen, E., Siddiqi, A., and Zeitoun, M. (2024) The many faces of environmental security. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 49, 395-418.
- Tkachenko, A. (2024) Envisioning ecological security through local direct action: community resistance with global resonance. Critical Studies on Security.
- Goldman, J., Gordon, N. J., Allan, B., and Baer, D. (2024). How America can win the coming battery war. Foreign Affairs.
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.