At International Alert, the starting point for thinking about how climate change affects stability is understanding that climate change will interact with [stability] and amplify social, economic, and political stressors that are already there in fragile communities, said Janani Vivekananda in this interview with the ECSP. "Rather than climate change being this single, direct causal factor which will spark conflict at the national level," Vivekananda said, these stressors "will shift the tipping point at which conflict might ignite." In places that are already weakened by instability and conflict, climate change will simply be an additional challenge.
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