The course will begin with a brief examination of the science of climate change and the consequences of global warming for those most at risk. We will then examine the consequent implications of climate change for human security, with a focus on how these climate consequences will affect conflict and security in areas most at risk. The foundation of the climate-conflict research rests on research from the 1990s and early 2000s on the links between environmental change and violent conflict. An examination of this research will provide a foundation for the shift to examine more recent research on the links between climate change and violent conflict. More recently, scholars have also begun to explore the ways in which we can tackle the complex challenges posed by climate change to help build peace and security among vulnerable groups and in regions most at risk. This course will thus also explore how scholars and policymakers are confronting the challenges and risks of climate change to head off violent conflict and build positive, sustainable peace. Throughout the course we will also be reading Camilla Toulmin’s book exploring almost four decades of change in a small farming village in Mali’s Sahel region. It will provide a study of how small-scale cultivators and herders have confronted various environmental, economic, and political challenges in the context of increasingly variable climatic influences, and will be a staple of our discussion sessions.