Tobias Ide (scholar)

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Tobias Ide is a German-Australian political scientist and geographer. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Murdoch University in Perth [1] and Specially Appointed Professor of Peace and Sustainability at Hiroshima University. [2] Ide is well known for his research on climate security and environmental peacebuilding. [3] He also consults decision makers, for instance at the United Nations, World Bank, and NATO. [4]

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Research

Ide has worked extensively on the impacts of climate change and conflict risks. In several studies, he showed that climate-related disasters increase the risk of protests, armed conflict onset, and civil war escalation. However, he argues that this does not happen always and automatically, but only if certain context factors are present. These include the political exclusion of ethnic groups, low levels of development, a weakening of the government, and unsuitable government responses to the disaster. [5] [6] [7] He finds similar patterns when analysing conflicts about renewable resources. [8] In his 2023 book Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints, Ide argues that disasters can also lead to temporary reductions in conflict intensity by weakening the conflict parties. Such time periods provide windows of opportunity for aid delivery and conflict resolution. [9]

Furthermore, Ide has conducted widely cited research on environmental peacebuilding. He demonstrated that water and conservation cooperation between states can support already existing reconciliation efforts, drawing on examples like the Lempa River and the Virunga National Park. [10] He also argues that environmental cooperation contributes to peacebuilding within countries by improving the environmental situation, increasing trust and understanding, and building shared institutions. Such efforts can contribute to local and everyday peace if relevant institutions support the efforts and there is widespread agreement on the nature and urgency of environmental problems. [11]

Ide has coined the concept of the “dark side of environmental peacebuilding”, [12] by which he refers to six potential adverse effects of environmental peacebuilding efforts:

These adverse effects are often unintended and avoidable. In 2022, he received the Enhancing the Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Base Award for this work. [13]

Career

Ide was born in 1985. He studied Political Science and Media and Communication Studies at the University of Leipzig (2005–2012). Afterwards, he went on to receive a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Hamburg (2015) and his habilitation in Political Science from the Technical University of Braunschweig (2019). After his PhD, he worked at the Georg Eckert Institute and at the University of Melbourne. He was also a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the American University in Washington, DC. [1] [14] [15]

Impact and awards

Media and decision makers have drawn on Ide's research. He was worked with the World Bank (Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction), [16] the United Nations (UN Economic and Social Council), [17] NATO, the European Union, [4] and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, [18] among others. Ide's work featured in many news articles, including in the Atlantic, [19] CTV News, de Volkskrant , [20] Publico, [21] Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), [22] Courthouse News Service, [23] as well as in podcasts like Policy, Guns & Money, [24] POLIS180 [25] and New Books in World Affairs. [26]

Ide received several awards for his research. These include:

Ide is a director of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association [30] and editor of the journal Environment and Security. [31] His work has been cited 2,828 times according to GoogleScholar (June 2024). [3]

Selected publications

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  2. ↑ "Cross-Appointed Faculty Members (Specially Appointed Professors/Associate Professors)". Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  3. 1 2 "Tobias Ide". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  4. 1 2 Ide, Tobias (2024-05-31). "Tobias Ide, Author at Peace News Network". Peace News Network. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  5. ↑ Ide, Tobias (2023). "Rise or Recede? How Climate Disasters Affect Armed Conflict Intensity". International Security. 47 (4): 50–78. doi:10.1162/isec_a_00459. ISSN   0162-2889.
  6. ↑ Ide, Tobias; Brzoska, Michael; Donges, Jonathan F.; Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich (2020-05-01). "Multi-method evidence for when and how climate-related disasters contribute to armed conflict risk". Global Environmental Change. 62: 102063. Bibcode:2020GEC....6202063I. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102063. ISSN   0959-3780.
  7. ↑ Ide, Tobias; Lopez, Miguel Rodriguez; Fröhlich, Christiane; Scheffran, Jürgen (3 May 2021). "Pathways to water conflict during drought in the MENA region". Journal of Peace Research. 58 (3): 568–582. doi:10.1177/0022343320910777. ISSN   0022-3433.
  8. ↑ Ide, Tobias (2015-07-01). "Why do conflicts over scarce renewable resources turn violent? A qualitative comparative analysis". Global Environmental Change. 33: 61–70. Bibcode:2015GEC....33...61I. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.04.008. ISSN   0959-3780.
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  11. ↑ Ide, Tobias (2018-03-23). "The Impact of Environmental Cooperation on Peacemaking: Definitions, Mechanisms, and Empirical Evidence". International Studies Review. 21 (3): 327–346. doi:10.1093/isr/viy014. ISSN   1521-9488.
  12. 1 2 Ide, Tobias (2020-03-01). "The dark side of environmental peacebuilding". World Development. 127: 104777. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104777. ISSN   0305-750X.
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