Climate-Driven Recruitment and Other Conflict Dynamics in Colombia (Findings Report 8) *

Javier Cárdenas, Cristal Downing, and Juanita Vélez

Octubre 2021

This report is based on data collected from April to May 2021 as part of a phone survey of community members in 11 municipalities across Colombia.i It presents findings on climate change and humaninduced environmental degradation, including impacts such as displacement and association with armed groups. It also includes analysis of some of the different levels and types of impact that these climate trends have on women and ethnic groups. This data may be useful to government, UN, and NGO partners working in Colombia to tackle climate change and environmental degradation, and to dismantle armed groups and bring about peace, including through implementation of the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP. The report ends with an examination of key policy and programmatic implications of these findings.

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