Arising Potential Conflict: Environmental Threats and Forced Migration in Pacific Island States

Togu Alexander, Aditya Pratama, Naifa Rizani

2018

Abstract

Environmental Security in Pacific Island countries has been the prominent concern as it adversely impacts the livelihood of people. Threats such as natural disaster, environmental degradation, and climate change contribute to deprivation of human needs. Due to inability of inhabitant for securing their needs caused by environmental issues, they look for prospective place purposively maintain their life which triggered forced migration in massive scale. With the increasing number of population growth each year, forced migration is an emerging issue that could escalate to a potential conflict. Through this paper, we examine deprivation of needs for living caused by environmental threats in Pacific Island countries which triggers high rate of forced migration. Thus, it will create a possibility of conflict between migrant and native in recipient countries. These chain of events and the potential threat of conflict will be examined using the concept of Protracted Social Conflict proposed by Edward Azar. This paper explores forced migration and its repercussion due to the environmental threats. Vulnerability of Pacific island countries in climate change could not be ignored. The unpredictable nature of climate change and natural disasters produce a situation in which there needs to be more studies in how it affects forced migration and conflicts

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alexander T., Pratama A. and Rizani N. (2018). Arising Potential Conflict: Environmental Threats and Forced Migration in Pacific Island States. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 387-390. DOI: 10.5220/0010277600002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Togu Alexander and Aditya Pratama and Naifa Rizani},
title={Arising Potential Conflict: Environmental Threats and Forced Migration in Pacific Island States},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={387-390},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010277600002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Arising Potential Conflict: Environmental Threats and Forced Migration in Pacific Island States
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Alexander T.
AU - Pratama A.
AU - Rizani N.
PY - 2018
SP - 387
EP - 390
DO - 10.5220/0010277600002309