Earlier this month, WG1 concluded a workshop at Politecnico di Milano, co-hosted by Prof. M. Cristina Rulli and the WG co-chairs Prof. Nina von Uexkull and Prof. Halvard Buhaug. This interdisciplinary dialogue on climate change, natural resources and conflict brought together economists, political scientists, hydrologists and demographers in one room, showcasing through diverse lenses that climate and conflict are connected in increasingly complex ways and across different sectors that rarely talk to each other.

This further showcases the importance of interdisciplinary dialogue such as this, which helps better understanbd the tradeoffs when research still needs to simplify complex often associated with specific knowledge from one field which does not necessarilly translate well into others. Workshops like this finally showcase what the PEACE research network can help with: increasing cooperation between interdisciplinary fields linked to peace research while fostering common understanding on themes which can be explained through multiple lenses.