Kyungmee Kim
Researcher at Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning
- E-mail:
- kyungmee.kim@pcr.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Dr. Kyungmee Kim is a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research focusing on the intersection of climate change and insecurity, examining how climate resilience building can mitigate the risk of conflict and fragility. She is also associated researcher with the Research School for International Water Cooperation, housed within the UNESCO Center for Water Cooperation and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Keywords
- climate change adaptation
- environmental justice
- environmental peacebuilding
- environmental security
- human-water interactions
Biography
Dr. Kyungmee Kim is a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Her current research focuses on the intersection of climate change and insecurity, examining how climate resilience building can mitigate the risk of conflict and fragility. Kyungmee’s research also encompasses transboundary water conflict and cooperation, environmental peacebuilding, and the role of technology in environmental policy.
In 2021, she earned her PhD in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University with her dissertation titled ‘Civil Resistance in the Shadow of War: Explaining Popular Mobilization against Dams in Myanmar’. She is affiliated with the Research School for International Water Cooperation, housed within the UNESCO Center for Water Cooperation. Additionally, Kyungmee serves as an Associate Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Climate Change and Risk Programme.
With ample policy experience, Kyungmee has contributed as a lead author to policy reports commissioned by the European Union, World Bank, and UN Development Programme.
Publications
Recent publications
- Integrating socio-hydrology, and peace and conflict research (2024)
- Artificial Intelligence for Climate Security (2023)
- Climate Change and Violent Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (2023)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet (2023)
- Civil Resistance in the Shadow of War (2021)
All publications
Articles
- Integrating socio-hydrology, and peace and conflict research (2024)
- Climate Change and Violent Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (2023)
- Negotiating Water across Levels (2018)
- Land acquisition (2016)
- Transboundary water politics in the developing world (2016)
Books
Chapters
- Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and Beyond (2017)
- Overseas Investment in Land and Challenges in the Nile Basin (2016)