Karolina Eklöw

Project Coordinator

Karolina Eklöw

Karolina Eklöw was the Coordinator of the Environment of Peace initiative at SIPRI. She joined the institute in August 2018 as a Research Assistant with the Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her research focuses on multilateral policy and institutional responses to climate-related security risks.

During her studies in Political Science she was an exchange student in China and Spain, worked at a start-up in Washington D.C and conducted three months of field research in Colombia. Karolina interned at UNDP as well as at the Mission of Sweden to the UN in New York, during its membership in the Security Council.

Subject expertise

Climate security; Human security; United Nations; 2030 Agenda

Regional expertise

Global

Languages

Swedish, English, Spanish, Mandarin

Education

B.A. Political Science, University of Gothenburg

Citizenship

Sweden

Finland

Affiliations

Advisor to the Swedish think tank Global Challenges (Global Utmaning)
Curator of the Stockholm Hub of the Global Shapers Community. The Global Shapers Community is an initiative by the World Economic Forum.

SIPRI COMMENTARY

Surveillance as slow violence: Experiences from young environmental activists (Blog, August 2021 )
Climate Security in times of geopolitical crises—what ways forward? (Blog, February 2019 )
Towards climate resilient peacebuilding: Understanding the complexities (Blog, October 2018 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Black, R. et al., Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2022)
de Coning, C. et al, Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Environment of Peace (Part 2) (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
Melvis, N., Maalim, H., Barnhoorn, A., Bell, N., Broek, E., Eklöw, K., Horn, B., Meijer, K., Michel, D. and Staudenmann, J., E, Enabling an Environment of Peace: Environment of Peace (Part 4) (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
Smith, D., Mobjörk, M., Krampe, F. et al, Climate Security: Making it #Doable (Clingendael and SIPRI, The Hague, Stockholm: February 2019)
Eklöw, K. and Krampe, F., Climate-related Security Risks and Peacebuilding in Somalia (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2019)
Born, C., Eklöw, K. and Mobjörk, M., Advancing United Nations Responses to Climate-related Security Risks (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2019)