Climate Conversations: Climate Change, Security and Latin America with Tom Deligiannis

Dr Tom Deligiannis answers questions about the impact of climate change in Latin America and what can be done to address the security challenges.

Dr Deligiannis specialises in Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, where his research focuses on environment-conflict. Previously, he was an assistant professor (Department of Environment, Peace, and Security) at the UN mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. 

Dr Deligiannis is a Fellow of the Institute for Environmental Security in the Hague as well as being a member of the of the Environmental Peacebuilding Academy. He also teaches a range of university modules that include: ‘Peace and Conflict Transformation’, ‘Disasters and Development’, and ‘War, Culture and Conflict.’

Adding to his extensive list of publications, Dr Deligiannis will shortly be producing a volume on the conflict impacts of human induced environmental and demographic change in Chuschi and Quispillacta (Peru’s southern highlands). The volume will document regional interaction between long term environmental and demographic changes in relation to the currents of economic, social, and political transition.