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Dr Farah Hegazi
Researcher
Dr Farah Hegazi
Dr Farah Hegazi is a Researcher in the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her research focuses on identifying and understanding climate-related security risks, and how interventions to address the effects of climate change can be used to build peace. She is currently working on evaluating how climate-related security risks affect peacekeeping missions, and on how the World Food Programme’s climate-related interventions can potentially contribute to peace. Dr Hegazi previously worked on environmental security and peacebuilding at the Environmental Law Institute and the Center on International Cooperation, and holds a Ph.D. in environmental policy.
Subject expertise
Environmental peacebuilding
Regional expertise
Global
CONTACT Dr Farah Hegazi
Languages
English, Arabic
Education
Ph.D., Environmental Politics and Policy, Duke University, USA; M.E.M., Duke University, USA; BSc., Environment, McGill University, Canada
Citizenship
United States
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Water for peace … for now? (Blog, )
- Training on climate security is crucial for the future of peace operations (Blog, )
- Lessons on climate resilience and peacebuilding from Ethiopia and the Dry Corridor (Blog, )
- Reducing climate-related security risks and building peace through adaptation (Blog, )
- Climate change, disease and the legitimacy of armed non-state actors (Essay, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Environmental and Climate Justice, and the Dynamics of Violence in Latin America: Perspectives from a Regional Working Group on Climate Change, the Environment, Peace and Security in Latin America (SIPRI, Stockholm: February 2024)
- Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2022)
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Ethiopia (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2022)
- Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Environment of Peace (Part 2) (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Ethiopia (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : June 2022)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Somalia (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : November 2022)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Central African Republic (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : October 2022)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Colombia (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : October 2022)
- The Social Side of Climate Change Adaptation: Reducing Conflict Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2022)
- Climate-related Security Risks and Peacebuilding in Mali (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2021)
External publications
- Krampe, F., Hegazi, F. and VanDeveerb, S.D., Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding, World Development, Volume 144 (Aug 2021)
- Hegazi, F. (Contributing author), Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). IPBES: Bonn, Germany (2019)
- Weinthal, E., Hegazi, F., and Witmer, L., 'Development and Diplomacy: Water, the SDGs, and U.S. Foreign Policy' In Water, Security, and U.S. Foreign Policy, ed. David Reed. New York: Routledge (2017)