{"id":33298,"date":"2018-05-11T12:53:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T16:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=33298"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:39:48","slug":"najam-interviewed-on-climate-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/05\/11\/najam-interviewed-on-climate-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Najam Interviewed on Climate and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/04\/Adil-Najam.jpg\" alt=\"Adil-Najam\" width=\"998\" height=\"421\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/04\/Adil-Najam.jpg 998w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/04\/Adil-Najam-650x274.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/04\/Adil-Najam-768x324.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a>, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies at Boston University, &#8220;<span>the key challenges from the climate and security nexus relate to climate impacts as threat-multipliers, primarily but not only, to internal security and very often in terms of human insecurities.&#8221; He said this in <a href=\"http:\/\/pakistanpolitico.com\/interview-with-dr-adil-najam-dean-of-the-pardee-school-of-global-affairs-at-boston-university\/\">an interview<\/a> published in the May 2018 issue of the new security studies <a href=\"http:\/\/pakistanpolitico.com\/\"><em>Pakistan Politico<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Najam, who is undertaking a major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/01\/02\/selin-and-najam-usip-research-to-study-climate-and-security-pakistan\/\">research project on climate and security in Pakistan<\/a> along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/henrik-selin\/\">Prof. Henrik Selin<\/a>, also of the Pardee School,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pakistanpolitico.com\/interview-with-dr-adil-najam-dean-of-the-pardee-school-of-global-affairs-at-boston-university\/\">highlighted<\/a> the &#8216;law and order&#8217; maintenance aspects of security and its link to climate change:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Look around Pakistan or at South Asia as a whole, even in the last ten years, and you see a constant procession of climatic crises that not only make the lives of people miserable, they actually make them insecure. It is not just that every time there is a flood or drought or disaster it distracts the security apparatus from its \u2018traditional\u2019 duties by turning them into relief officials. It is also that each episode also imposes new law and order burdens and ultimately they gnaw away at efficacy and effectiveness of the security apparatus.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Asked what he thought was the most important aspect of climate change and security, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pakistanpolitico.com\/interview-with-dr-adil-najam-dean-of-the-pardee-school-of-global-affairs-at-boston-university\/\">he\u00a0said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Water. Above all else.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt in my mind that water is one of the biggest security challenges for Pakistan. It is existential. It is no longer long-term; it is immediate-term. It may even be as big or bigger than any inter-state threat we have from our very hostile neighborhood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full interview can be read online, <a href=\"http:\/\/pakistanpolitico.com\/interview-with-dr-adil-najam-dean-of-the-pardee-school-of-global-affairs-at-boston-university\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a> is the inaugural dean of the BU Pardee School and former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His books, amongst others, include,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0761825711?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0761825711&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=allthingspaki-20\">Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia<\/a>. <\/em>Read more about him, here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adil Najam argues that water is one of the biggest security challenges, not only for Pakistan but for all of South Asia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410,8432],"tags":[10745,1720,10574,509,1697],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33298"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33305,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298\/revisions\/33305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}