Climate Crisis and Positive Peace: Reassessing Environmental Security and Social Resilience in Pakistan

Abstract

Climate change is fast developing as a direct challenge to the bedrock of sustainable peace in Pakistan. In addition to degrading the environment, it is shaking the structural aspects that favor justice, equity and community resilience. Repetitive climate caused disasters like floods, droughts, and glacial meltdown are paving the way to social inequality, causing displacement, loss of trust in institutions and the escalation of conflict locally. This paper looks at how environmental insecurity undermines such necessary components of positive peace as social cohesion, access to resources, and stable governance. The research establishes the mismatch between the climate adaptation measures and actions on peace building through examination of cases of national responses, field level responses as well as the vulnerability of the different regions in regards to climatic variations. It exposes the fact that even in the age of awareness about the risks climate poses, the strategies that may integrate environmental security and environmental resilience are barely present. To sum up the given paper, it is possible to propose a framework that rests on establishing links between climate adaptation and peace building based on an inclusive governance, local solution and long-term environmental planning as its key aspects of building a peaceful and sustainable future.