Author and criminology professor Alex Alvarez, Ph.D., will discuss climate change and how it could result in war and genocide when he gives Ohio Wesleyan University’s 2021 Robert Kragalott Lecture on Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and Human Rights.
Alvarez will present “Nations and Nationalism in a Warming World: Genocidal Risk in an Era of Climate Change” at 7 p.m. March 30 via Zoom.
“Climate change is increasingly impacting communities and nations around the world and challenging our ability to cope and adapt to new environmental realities,” said Alvarez, the President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow and a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northern Arizona University.
“It also poses some very real hazards for the development of violent conflict,” Alvarez said. “The focus of this presentation is on exploring some of the implications of climate change for facilitating war and genocide and tracing the ways in which climate-induced stresses will contribute to the development of exclusionary forms of nationalism as conflict over resources, borders, and displaced populations become more prevalent.”
Ohio Wesleyan’s Kragalott Lecture honors the career, contributions, and memory of Robert Kragalott, Ph.D., a professor in the OWU Department of History from 1964 to 1991. Learn more at www.owu.history.