The Social Side of Climate Change Adaptation: Reducing Conflict Risk

and Auld, G., ‘Climate wars? A significant gaps in planning and appropriate climate change systematic review of empirical analyses on adaptation practices; and the links between climate change and violent implementation.8 In addition, key conflict’, International Studies Review, vol. [...] conflict and build Social capital can improve governance, This policy brief offers insights peace at the local reduce conflict and build peace at the into the importance of social capital level.14 Social capital for facilitating climate change can also give a voice local level adap tation and preventing and to marginalized resolving natural resource-related groups and communities, allowing communa. [...] This can communities and governments help to increase the credibility, through collaborative processes for accountability, owners hip and knowledge exchange, setting prior- sustainability of inter ventions.15 ities and determining appropriate In addition, shared learning and climate change adapt ation practices; partnerships that leverage local and (b) increasing knowledge of legitimacy and supp o. [...] 7 (2006); Kilroy (note 9); and Cox, M., and Revival of American Community (Simon Social Capital and Peace-building: Creating and Schuster: New York, 2000); and Szreter, S. [...] mitigation capacity and natural People often trust traditional resource management techniques, and local leaders more than the trust and cooperation increased by govern ment, and there is a demand generating a shared understanding for climate change of the problems and solutions.34 information to Purposefully supporting climate Thus, a collaborative approach be channelled to adaptation as a social.