PD Dr. Tobias Ide

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PD Dr. Tobias Ide
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Institute of International Relations
Technical University Braunschweig
Bienroder Weg 97
D-38106 Braunschweig
t.ide(at)tu-bs

PD Dr Tobias Ide is a senior lecturer at the Institute of International Relations. His research and teaching foci include peace and conflict studies, climate change, environmental politics, migration, security policy, political economy, and research methods.

Tobias Ide is also a Lecturer in Politics and Policy at Murdoch University in Perth. His current project combines QCA and case studies to analyse the impact of disasters on the dynamics of armed conflicts. He is also a director of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association.

Tobias Ide received his PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2015. In his doctoral thesis, he investigated the links between climate change and violent conflict. His habilitation, completed at the TU Braunschweig in 2019, studied the role of environmental factors in peacemaking and peacebuilding processes. He has been a vising researcher at the University of Melbourne, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the American University in Washington DC.

His Google Scholar profile can be found here.

2021

Ide, Tobias (2021): COVID-19 and Armed Conflict. World Development 140 (1), 1-6.
Ide, Tobias, Anders Kristensen and Henrikas Bartusevicius (2021): First Comes the River, Then Comes the Conflict? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Flood-Related Political Unrest. Journal of Peace Research 58 (1), online first.
Ide, Tobias, Carl Bruch, Alexander Carius, Ken Conca, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Richard Matthew and Erika Weinthal (2021): The Past and Future(s) of Environmental Peacebuilding. International Affairs 97 (1), 1-16.
Ide, Tobias, Lisa Palmer and Jon Barnett (2021): Environmental Peacebuilding from Below: Customary Approaches in Timor-Leste. International Affairs 97 (1), 103-117.

2020

Ide, Tobias (2020): The Dark Side of Environmental Peacebuilding. World Development 127 (1), 1-9.
Ide, Tobias (2020): Teaching Terrorism, Saving the State? Education and Geopolitical Imaginations of Terrorism in 12 Violently Challenged States. Political Geography 77 (1), 1-10.
Ide, Tobias (2020): Recession and Fossil Fuel Dependence Undermine Climate Policy Commitments. Environmental Research Communications 2 (10), 1-5.
Ide, Tobias, Michael Brzoska, Jonathan Donges and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (2020): Multi-method Evidence that Climate-related Disasters Contribute to Armed Conflict Risk. Global Environmental Change 62 (1), 1-8.
Ide, Tobias, Miguel Rodriguez Lopez, Christiane Fröhlich and Jürgen Scheffran (2020): Pathways to Water Conflict during Drought in the MENA Region. Journal of Peace Research, online first.
Ide, Tobias und Amit Tubi (2020): Education for Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Three Projects in Israel and Palestine. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 110 (1), 1-17.
Groth, Juliane, Tobias Ide, Patrick Sakdapolrak and Kathleen Hermans (2020): Why Farmers Choose to Migrate under Changing Environmental Conditions: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Ethiopian Farming Households. Global Environmental Change 63 (1), 1-11.

2019:

Ide, Tobias (2019): The Impact of Environmental Cooperation on Peacemaking: Definitions, Mechanisms and Empirical Evidence. International Studies Review 21 (3), 327-346.
Ide, Tobias, Adrien Detges and Timo Leimeister (2019): Securitization Through the Schoolbook? On Facilitating Conditions for and Audience Responses to the Attempted Securitization of Climate Change. Journal of International Relations and Development 22 (3), 532-559.
Ide, Tobias, Anna-Katharina Thiel and Itay Fischhendler (2019): The Critical Geopolitics of Water Conflicts in School Textbooks: The Case of Germany. Water Alternatives 12 (1), 304-321.
Ide, Tobias, Christiane Fröhlich and Jonathan Donges (2019): The Economic, Political, and Social Implications of Environmental Crises. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101 (3), E364-E367.
Hermans, Kathleen and Tobias Ide (2019): Advancing Research on Climate Change, Conflict and Migration. Die Erde 150 (1), 40-44.

2018:

Ide, Tobias (2018): Does Environmental Peacemaking between States Work? Insights on Cooperative Environmental Agreements and Reconciliation in International Rivalries. Journal of Peace Research 55 (3), 351-365.
Adams, Courtland, Tobias Ide, Jon Barnett and Adrien Detges (2018): Sampling Bias in Climate-Conflict Research. Nature Climate Change 8 (3), 200-203.
Ide, Tobias, Jon Barnett, Adrien Detges and Courtland Adams (2018): Reply to “Sampling bias does not exaggerate climate-conflict claims”. Nature Climate Change 8 (6), 442-443.
Ide, Tobias (2018): Climate War in the Middle East? Drought, the Syrian Civil War and the State of Climate-Conflict Research. Current Climate Change Reports 4 (4), 347-354.
Ide, Tobias (2018): On the Appropriate Use of QCA in Environmental Management Research: A Comment on Hossu et al. In: Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment 47 (7), 831-832.
Ide, Tobias and Adrien Detges (2018): International Water Cooperation and Environmental Peacemaking. Global Environmental Politics 18 (4), 63-84.
Ide, Tobias, Abdulkhaleq Alwan, Kalil Bader, Noureddine Dougui, Maysoun Husseini, Elarbi Imad, Farouk Gaafar Marzouk, Amani Taha Moustafa and Riem Spielhaus (2018): The Geopolitics of Environmental Education: An Analysis of School Textbooks in the MENA Region. Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society 10 (2), 64-83.
Ide, Tobias, Jakob Kirchheimer and Denise Bentrovato (2018): School Textbooks, Peace and Conflict: An Introduction. Global Change, Peace and Security 30 (3), 287-294.

2017:

Ide, Tobias (2017): Space, Discourse and Environmental Peacebuilding. Third World Quarterly 38 (3), 544-562.
Ide, Tobias (2017): Research Methods for Exploring the Links between Climate Change and Conflict. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change 8 (3), 1-14.
Ide, Tobias (2017): Terrorism in the Textbook: A Comparative Analysis of Terrorism Discourses in Germany, India, Kenya and the United States Based on School Textbooks. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 30 (1), 44-66.
Schilling, Janpeter, Sarah Nash, Tobias Ide, Jürgen Scheffran, Rebecca Froese and Pina von Prondzinski (2017): Resilience and Environmental Security: Towards Joint Application in Peacebuilding. Global Change, Peace & Security 29 (2), 107-127.

2016:

Ide, Tobias (2016): Critical Geopolitics and School Textbooks: The Case of Environment-Conflict Links in Germany. Political Geography 55 (1), 60-71.
Ide, Tobias (2016): Towards a Constructivist Understanding of Socio-Environmental Conflicts. Civil Wars 18 (1), 69-90.
Link, P. Michael, Jürgen Scheffran and Tobias Ide (2016): Conflict and Cooperation in the Water-Security Nexus: A Global Comparative Analysis of River Basins under Climate Change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water 3 (4), 495-515.

2015:

Ide, Tobias (2015): Why Do Conflicts over Scarce Renewable Resources Turn Violent? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Global Environmental Change 33 (1), 61-70.
Ide, Tobias and Christiane Fröhlich (2015): Socio-environmental Cooperation and Conflict? A Discursive Understanding and Its Application to the Case of Israel/Palestine. Earth System Dynamics 6 (2), 659-671.
Selbmann, Kirsten and Tobias Ide (2015): Between Redeemer and Work of the Devil: The Transnational Brazilian Biofuel Discourse. Energy for Sustainable Development 29 (1), 118-126.

2014:

Ide, Tobias, Janpeter Schilling, Jasmin S. A. Link, Jürgen Scheffran, Grace Ngaruiya and Thomas Weinzierl (2014): On Exposure, Vulnerability and Violence: Spatial Distribution of Risk Factors for Climate Change and Violent Conflict across Kenya and Uganda. Political Geography 43 (1), 68-81.
Ide, Tobias and Jürgen Scheffran (2014): On Climate, Conflict and Cumulation: Suggestions for Integrative Cumulation of Knowledge in the Research on Climate Change and Violent Conflict. Global Change, Peace & Security 26 (3), 263-279.
Scheffran, Jürgen, Tobias Ide and Janpeter Schilling (2014): Violent Climate or Climate of Violence? Concepts and Relations with Focus on Kenya and Sudan. International Journal of Human Rights 18 (3), 369-390.

Books and Special Issues Edited:

Ide, Tobias, Alexander Carius, Carl Bruch, Geoffrey Dabelko and Erika Weinthal (eds.) (2021): New Directions in Environmental Peacebuilding. Special Issue of International Affairs (volume 97, issue 1).
Ide, Tobias, Denise Bentrovato and Jakob Kirchheimer (eds.) (2019): School Textbooks, Peace and Conflict. Special Issue of Global Change, Peace & Security.
Ide, Tobias (ed.) (2017): Peace and Conflict Research. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, in German.
Christ, Tamina, Angelika Gellrich and Tobias Ide (eds.) (2012): Perspectives on the Climate Debate in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. Marburg: Metropolis, in German.

Chapters in Edited Books:

2020

Ide, Tobias (2020): Environmental Peacebuilding. In: Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199743292-0290 (peer reviewed).
Ide, Tobias (2020): Renewable Resource Scarcity, Conflicts, and Migration. In: Krieger, Tim, Diana Panke and Michael Pregerning (eds.): Environment, Conflict, and Migration: Exploring Interdependencies. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 17-36 (peer reviewed).
Zhang, David D., Qing Pei, Christiane Fröhlich and Tobias Ide (2020): Does Climate Change Drive Violence, Conflict and Human Migration? In: Hulme, Mike (eds.): Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer. London: Routledge, 51-64.
Barnett, Jon and Tobias Ide (2020): Environmental Security. In: Kobayashi, Audrey (ed.): International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. London: Elsevier, forthcoming (accepted) (peer reviewed).

2018:

Ide, Tobias (2018): Using SKAD to Investigate Cooperation and Conflict Over Water Resources. In: Keller, Reiner, Wolf J. Schünemann and Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.): The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. London: Sage, 237-253.
Ide, Tobias, Vakur Sümer and Larissa M. Aldehoff (2018): Environmental Peacebuilding in the Middle East. In: Swain, Ashok and Joakim Öjendal (eds.): Routledge Handbook on Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding. London: Rouledge, 175-187.
Ide, Tobias (2018): Environment. In: Fuchs, Eckhardt and Annekatrin Bock (eds.): Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 357-366.

2017:

Ide, Tobias (2017): Introduction: Concepts, Trends and Issues of Peace and Conflict Studies. In: Ide, Tobias (ed.): Peace and Conflict Research. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 7-32, in German.
Ide, Tobias (2017): A Climate of Violence? The Debate on Climate Change and Violent Conflicts. In: Ide, Tobias (ed.): Peace and Conflict Research. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 193-226, in German.

2016:

Ide, Tobias and Kirsten Selbmann (2016): Climate Change, Biofuels and Conflict. In: Singh, Ram Sarup, Ashok Pandey and Edgard Gnansounou (eds.): Biofuels: Production and Future Perspectives. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 25-40 (peer reviewed).
Ide, Tobias, P. Michael Link, Jürgen Scheffran and Janpeter Schilling (2016): The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Pathways, Regional Links and Case Studies. In: In: Brauch, Hans Günter, Úrsula Oswald Spring, John Grin and Jürgen Scheffran (eds.): Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace. Dordrecht: Springer, 285-304 (peer reviewed).

2015:

Ide, Tobias (2015): The Resource Curse as a Security Threat: On the Link between Resource Abundance and Intrastate Violent Conflict. In: Jäger, Thomas (ed.): Handbook Security Threats. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 43-52, in German.
Scheffran, Jürgen, Tobias Ide and Janpeter Schilling (2015): Violent Climate or Climate of Violence? Concepts and Relations with Focus on Kenya and Sudan. In: Zimmerer, Jürgen (ed.): Climate Change and Genocide: Environmental Violence in the 21^st Century. London: Routledge, 107-126 (peer reviewed).

2012:

Ide, Tobias (2012): Wars and Violent Conflict as a Consequence of Climate Change? In: Christ, Tamina, Angelika Gellrich and Tobias Ide (eds.): Perspectives on the Climate Debate in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. Marburg: Metropolis, 169-196, in German.
Ide, Tobias (2012): A Short Story of Failure, or: Why We Know That It Will Be Bad and Change (Almost) Nothing. In: Christ, Tamina, Angelika Gellrich and Tobias Ide (eds.): Perspectives on the Climate Debate in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. Marburg: Metropolis, 57-84, in German.
Ide, Tobias, Angelika Gellrich and Tamina Christ (2012): Introduction: Climate Change as an Area of Contention between Society, Politics and Economy. In: Christ, Tamina, Angelika Gellrich and Tobias Ide (eds.): Perspectives on the Climate Debate in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. Marburg: Metropolis, 11-45, in German.

2010:

Ide, Tobias (2010): The “True” Causes of Climate Change. In: Aufenanger, Vanessa, Nele Friedrichsen and Stephan Koch (eds.): Justice and Responsibility in Climate and Energy Politics. Münster: Monsenstein und Vanderat, 14-24, in German.

Working Papers:

Ide, Tobias (2019): Environmental Peacemaking and Environmental Peacebuilding in International Politics. CLISEC Working Paper 32.
Ide, Tobias and Jürgen Scheffran (2013): Climate Change: Source of Conflict or Promoter of Cooperation? CLISEC Working Paper 26.

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