Montréal, Canada
Climate Security Association of Canada
Montreal, Canada
CSAC Newsletter
October 2024
WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT
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.
More information on each of the Fellows can be found on the CSAC website.
PUBLICATIONS
Recent academic publications on climate security
- Charbonneau. B. (2024) The era of climate security. Canadian Military Journal, 24(1), 5-10. (Part of a special section on climate security)
- Daoust, G. and Selby, J. (2024) Climate change and migration: A review and new framework for analysis. WIREs Climate Change, 15, e886.
- Deligiannis, T. (2024) Decentering climate security: The research and policy implications of sudden-onset and slow-onset climate change. In Timothy Clack et. al. (eds), Hot War: Climate Change and Insecurity. Routledge.
- Greaves, W. (2024) Human security, climate change, and the role of the Canadian Armed Forces: British Columbia, 2021. Canadian Military Journal, 24(1), 11-18. (Part of a special section on climate security)
- Greaves, W. and Gricius, G. (2024) Overlooking nature: The Arctic, climate change, and environmental diplomacy in the study of Canadian foreign policy. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 30(2), 160-175.
NEWS
CSAC Conference
April 8-9, 2024 | Montreal, Qc, Canada
CSAC’s second annual conference on ‘Climate Security and its Challenges’ took place in April 2024 in Montréal. You can find information on the speakers here and links to video and podcast recordings of panels here. The April 2024 conference built on discussions that took place during the first annual CSAC conference held in March 2023 in Montréal. Plans for the third annual CSAC conference in 2025, along with smaller regionally focused workshops, are underway.
CSAC Pacific Climate Security Conference
February 1-2, 2024 | Victoria, BC, Canada
The CSAC Pacific Climate Security Conference and Career Development Workshop was held in February 2024 in Victoria, BC. You can find information on the programme here.
Exploring Critical Perspectives on Climate Security’ Workshop
September 16, 2024 | Cambridge, United Kingdom
Bruno Charbonneau and Gabrielle Daoust took part in a workshop hosted by the UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE) and the University of Cambridge in September 2024 in Cambridge, UK. This workshop brought together policy makers, government researchers, and academics to discuss critical perspectives in climate security.
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.