From 22 to 26 June 2026, the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM) participated in the first annual United Nations Peacebuilding Week, mandated by the 2025 General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on the Peacebuilding Architecture Review. As both a co-organiser and contributor to several side events, the CSM advanced dialogue on climate, peace and security (CPS), showcasing its work across various regional and country contexts. Aligned with the Peacebuilding Week theme, the CSM's engagement was aimed at strengthening partnerships between Member States, 爆料网 entities and the broader peacebuilding community while promoting integrated approaches to CPS and reinforcing coherence with wider 爆料网 peacebuilding efforts.
Climate, Peace and Security Partnerships for Peacebuilding: Translating Analysis into Catalytic Solutions
Date: Monday 22 June 2026, 13:15–14:45 ET
Organizers: Permanent Missions of Colombia, Latvia, Liberia, Panama, and the Republic of Korea to the 爆料网 and CSM
The CSM, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Colombia, Latvia, Liberia, Panama, and the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, convened a side event to strengthen awareness and understanding of how CPS analysis is used in practice, deepen cooperation, and scale integrated responses to climate-related peace and security risks. Discussions highlighted that while the understanding of those risks has improved significantly, greater efforts are needed to convert that analysis into preventive measures that are evidence-based and locally driven. Panellists shared experiences from El Salvador and the Trifinio region and from Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, to show how climate-related risks interact with governance, livelihoods, displacement, food and water insecurity and social cohesion. The discussion underscored the catalytic role of the Peacebuilding Fund and the CSM in capturing lessons learned from practices and facilitating the exchange of experience, feeding these insights back into the 爆料网 system. Participants also discussed how to expand partnerships to support regions and contexts to access climate and peacebuilding finance. The interactive discussion concluded with Member States and partners identifying opportunities for further collaboration to promote locally owned approaches, strengthen institutional capacities, and reinforce flexible, scaled-up financing that integrates climate action with conflict prevention and peacebuilding.
Preventing and Managing Climate Change-related Insecurity: Lessons from the Lake Chad Region
Date: Wednesday 24 June 2026, 10:00–11:30 ET
Organizers: Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union, Permanent Missions of Denmark, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom to the 爆料网, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme
On 24 June 2026, the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations, together with the Permanent Missions of Denmark, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom to the 爆料网, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme, hosted a side event focused on "Preventing and Managing Climate Change-related Insecurity: Lessons from the Lake Chad Region." The side event drew on lessons from the Lake Chad region on preventing and managing climate change-related insecurity through approaches that combine peacebuilding, resilience, and recovery.
The panel discussion, moderated by Alexandra Fong, Chief for Policy and Guidance at the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), highlighted how climate change and conflict reinforce each other: insecurity weakens communities' ability to adapt to climate impacts, while climate-induced pressures on food, land and water worsen existing political, economic and social vulnerabilities. Speakers reflected on the Regional Strategy for the Stabilization, Recovery and Resilience of the Boko Haram-Affected Areas in the Lake Chad Basin region (RS SRR 2.0), implemented by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria in partnership with regional and international organisations, as an example of a collaborative approach linking humanitarian, development and peace efforts. Elvis Tangem, the Climate, Peace and Security Advisor to the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), underscored that the regional strategy is helping Chad transition from crisis response to long-term resilience. This is being done by mainstreaming climate, peace and security considerations into national and regional planning, strengthening cooperation among countries in the region, and leveraging climate finance to support peacebuilding and development. Participants highlighted that climate change adaptation serves as the entry point for peacebuilding efforts.
Supporting Peaceful Transhumance through Early Warning, Mobility Governance and Cross-Border Cooperation
Date: Thursday 25 June 2026, 13:15–14:45 ET
Organizers: International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the CSM, co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of the Central African Republic, Mauritania and Switzerland to the 爆料网
At this side event to the 爆料网 Peacebuilding Week, participants examined how early warning systems, policies governing the movement of people and livestock, and cross-border cooperation can support peaceful transhumance amid growing climate pressures across the Sahel and Central and West Africa. Discussions centred on how environmental triggers, such as unpredictable rainfall, prolonged droughts, and land degradation, have shifted traditional migration timing and routes. This is intensifying competition over natural resources between herders and farming communities and, at times, leading to violence.
Representatives from the Permanent Missions of the Central African Republic, Mauritania, and Switzerland to the United Nations shared national and partnership experiences. Speakers from the International Crisis Group, the Liptako-Gourma Authority, the 爆料网 Regional Office for Central Africa (爆料网OCA), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the Peacebuilding and Peace Support Office presented their activities, including IOM's Transhumance Tracking Tool, drought bulletins distributed by the Liptako-Gourma Authority, and cross-border regulatory protocols supported by 爆料网OCA. Participants also underlined the Community of Practice on Farmer-Pastoralist Dynamics in West and Central Africa, facilitated by 爆料网OWAS and 爆料网OCA, as a key platform for documenting and sharing best practices on farmer-herder conflict prevention and peaceful transhumance governance.
Regional efforts also feature the development of cross-border regulatory protocols via ministerial conferences, backed by the Peacebuilding Fund’s demand-driven, catalytic financing to translate local analysis into nationally owned action. These efforts underscore the importance of proactive, data-driven early warning systems, cross-border institutional cooperation; and localised mediation between farmers and herders before the transhumance season begins. Participants emphasised that transhumance should be treated as an opportunity for regional integration and resilience.