Florian Krampe

Florian Krampe (born 1980) is a German/Swedish political scientist and international relations scholar at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He is best known for his work on the security implications from climate change and the governance of natural resources after armed conflict.

Research

Krampe's research interests include peace and conflict research, environmental and climate security, as well as international security. In his current research he studies how climate change impacts the effectiveness of peacebuilding, showing that "Eight of the ten countries hosting the most multilateral peace operations personnel in 2018 are located in areas highly exposed to climate change."

He is known for his research on post-conflict management of natural resources and environmental peacebuilding, focusing among others on peacebuilding potential of micro-hydropower development Nepal, as well as water supply management in Kosovo and East Timor. Theoretically, Krampe contributed to environmental peacebuilding by suggesting two dominant research perspectives: the cooperation perspective, driven by the potential of environmental cooperation to contribute to peace through spillover effects. This perspective focuses primarily on the interstate level and often on conflict prevention rather than post-conflict peacebuilding. In contrast, the resource risk perspective recognises resource-induced instability, especially after intrastate conflicts, and stresses the need to mitigate these risks to sustain the absence of violence (negative peace), through facilitating environmental cooperation.

Career

Krampe received his PhD from Uppsala University in 2016. Since 2017 he is working in the climate change and risk programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He has been Visiting Research Fellow at the Pufendorf Institute of Advanced Studies, Lund University and a student fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Since 2016, Krampe is an Affiliated Researcher at the Research School for International Water Cooperation at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Krampe has published in Global Environmental Politics and The Lancet Global Health as well as Cooperation and Conflict.

Krampe's expertise on climate security and environmental peacebuilding has informed intergovernmental organizations and policy actors. He has engaged among others with UN Environment, the African Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as well as the German Federal Foreign Office and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Krampe's research has received coverage by major global news outlets, including Deutsche Welle, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Hindustan Times, and CNBC Africa.

Selected Publications[18]

• Krampe, F., Climate change, peacebuilding and sustaining peace (SIPRI: June 2019)
• Smith, D. and Krampe, F., Climate-Related Security Risks in the Middle East, in Anders Jägerskog, Michael Schulz, and Ashok Swain (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security, London: Routledge (2019)
• Krampe, F,. and Mobjörk, M., Responding to Climate-Related Security Risks: Reviewing Regional Organizations in Asia and Africa, Current Climate Change Reports (Oct 2018)
• Krampe, F. and Gignoux, S., Water Service Provision and Peacebuilding in East Timor – Exploring the socio-ecological determinants of sustaining peace, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 12 (2): 185-207 (2018)
• Swatuk, L., Wirkus, L., Krampe, F., et al., The Boomerang Effect: Overview and Implications for Climate Governance in Swatuk, L. and Wirkus, L. (Eds) Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect: Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity, London & New York: Earthscan (2018)
• Krampe, F. Towards Sustainable Peace: A New Research Agenda for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management, Global Environmental Politics 17 (4)
• Stoett, P., Daszak, P., Romanelli, C. et al. Avoiding catastrophes: seeking synergies among the public health, environmental protection, and human security sectors, The Lancet Global Health, 4(10), e680–e681 (2016)
• Krampe, F. Water for peace? Post-conflict water resource management in Kosovo, Cooperation and Conflict (2016)
• Krampe, F. Empowering Peace: Service Provision and State legitimacy in Peacebuilding in Nepal, Conflict, Security, and Development 16 (1): 53-73 (2016)
• Swain, A. and Krampe, F. Stability and Sustainability in Peace Building: Priority Area for Warfare Ecology in Machlis, G. E., Hanson, T., Špirić, Z. and Mckendry, J. E. (eds.) Warfare Ecology (Springer Netherlands) 199-210. (2011)