22.10.2025
Global

5 Key Lessons from the Weathering Risk Peace Pillar

This policy brief and policy summary identify 5 key lessons from across the Weathering Risk Peace Pillar projects. These key lessons are distilled from project outcome evaluations and demonstrate how integrated, climate, environment and peace interventions are not only possible, but also make strategic sense.
WRPP october 25 publications

Global crises are increasingly interconnected. Climate change, environmental degradation, and conflict reinforce one another in ways that demand integrated responses. The Weathering Risk Peace Pillar demonstrates that such integration is both feasible and highly effective in fragile settings. Based on evaluations from five projects in the Bay of Bengal, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen, the Peace Pillar shows measurable gains in stability, adaptation, and cooperation.

Key lessons:

  1. Shared risks can drive cooperation.
  2. Resilience is a capacity, not a deliverable.
  3. Local grounding delivers relevance and legitimacy.
  4. Dialogue and action must reinforce each other.
  5. Integration multiplies impact.

Next steps for policymakers

• Embed integrated approaches in peace and climate strategies.
• Fund adaptive, locally led programs that link governance, resilience, and peace. 
• Scale successful models through partnerships and shared learning.

Download the policy brief and policy summary below.