Prof. Dr. Tobias Ide

Board Member // Head of Research Department

Tobias Ide is head of the Research Depart­ment Trans­national Politics at PRIF and is Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at TU Darmstadt. He is member of the Exe­cutive Board and Deputy Head of the Ecology, Climate, and Conflict Re­search Group at PRIF. His research focuses on the security impli­cations of climate change, the role of the environ­ment in peace and conflict proces­ses, rebel groups, and edu­cation in conflict contexts.

Tobias Ide
tobias.ide(at)prif.org

CV

| since 2025
Head of the Research Depart­ment Trans­national Politics and Member of PRIF’s Executive Board

| since 2025
Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies (trans­national actors), TU Darmstadt

| 2023–2025
Specially Appointed Professor of Peace and Sustain­ability, Hiroshima Uni­versity

| 2021–2025
Associate Professor of Politics and Inter­national Relations, Murdoch University

| 2019–2021
ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne

| 2019
Habilitation, Political Science, TU Braun­schweig

| 2015–2019
Head of Re­search Field Peace and Conflict, Leibniz Institute for Edu­cational Media Georg Eckert

| 2015
PhD, Geo­sciences (Universität Hamburg)

| 2012
Magister Artium, Political Science, Communi­cation and Media Studies, Uni­versity of Leipzig

Publications

  • Climate change expected to increase conflict risks over the next decades across sub-Saharan Africa.
    | 2025
    Jiang, Dong; Zhuo, Jun; Chen, Shuai; Hao, Mengmeng; Xie, Xiaolan; Ide,Tobias; Scheffran, Jürgen; Yao, Ling; Wu, Wenxiang; Jiang, Hou, Wu, Jiajie; Maystadt, Jean-François; Meng, Ze; Dong, Jiping; Wang, Qian; Kang, Tingting; Sun, Kai; Bai, Yongqing; Wang, Zhenyu; Liu, Lei; Yang, Chao; Ma, Tian; Zhang, Liqiang; Ding, Fangyu (2025): Climate change expected to increase conflict risks over the next decades across sub-Saharan Africa., The Innovation Geoscience, 3: 100139. DOI: 10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2025.100139
  • The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement
    | 2025
    Swain, Ashok; Päivi, Lujala; Matthew, Richard A.; Weinthal, Erika; Bruch, Carl; Ide, Tobias; Deligiannis Tom (2025): The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. Implications for global climate governance and security, Environment and Security, 3: 1. DOI: 10.1177/27538796251322680
  • Armed Conflict Causes Long-Lasting Environmental Harms
    | 2025
    Krampe, Florian; Kreutz, Joakim; Ide, Tobias (2025): Armed Conflict Causes Long-Lasting Environmental Harms, Environment and Security, Online first. DOI: 10.1177/27538796251323739
  • De-escalation and diplomacy: disasters as drivers of reduced conflict risks in the Indo-Pacific
    | 2025
    Ide, Tobias; Hayes, Ali; Lasrati, Indah; Canavan, Chloe (2025): De-escalation and diplomacy: disasters as drivers of reduced conflict risks in the Indo-Pacific, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 79: 2, 276-294. DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2025.2459316
  • Twelve research agendas for advancing the peace-sustainability nexus
    | 2025
    Simangan, Dahlia; Fisher, Joshua; Ide, Tobias; Koubi, Vally; Sharifi, Ayyoob; Alfredo, Katherine; Candelaria, John Lee; Dalby, Simon; Hendrix, Cullen; Kharrazi, Ali; Oswald-Spring, Úrsula; Roy, Joyashree (2025): Twelve research agendas for advancing the peace-sustainability nexus, Peace and Sustainability, 1: 1. DOI: 10.1016/j.nerpsj.2025.100008
  • Rethinking Climate Conflicts: The Role of Climate Action and Inaction
    | 2025
    Ide, Tobias (2025): Rethinking Climate Conflicts: The Role of Climate Action and Inaction, World Development, 186: 1. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106845
  • The impacts of climate change on violent conflict risk: a review of causal pathways
    | 2024
    Xie, Xiaolan; Hao, Mengmeng; Ding, Fangyu; Scheffran, Jürgen, Ide; Maystadt, Jean-Francois; Qian, Yushu; Wang, Qian; Chen, Shuai; Wu, Jiajie; Sun, Kai; Ma, Tian; Jiang, Dong (2024): The impacts of climate change on violent conflict risk: a review of causal pathways, Environmental Research Communications, 6: 11. DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ad8a21
  • Nurses’ Protests during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative International Analysis
    | 2024
    Jacobi, Davina; Ide, Tobias (2024): Nurses’ Protests during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative International Analysis, Nursing Reports, 14: 3, 1961–1972. DOI: 10.3390/nursrep14030146
  • Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
    | 2024
    Ide, Tobias (2024): Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism , 1–19. DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2024.2372862
  • Contention, cooperation, and context: A systematic review of research on disasters and political conflicts
    | 2024
    Canavan, Chloe; Ide, Tobias (2024): Contention, cooperation, and context: A systematic review of research on disasters and political conflicts, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 108: 1, 104558. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104558
  • Globalising the “War on Terror”? An Analysis of 36 Countries
    | 2024
    Ide, Tobias (2024): Globalising the “War on Terror”? An Analysis of 36 Countries, International Relations, 38: 2, 192–215. DOI: 10.1177/00471178221105576
  • The role of environmental professionals in post-conflict transboundary cooperation: The cases of Israel and Jordan
    | 2024
    Kedem, Rina; Halasah, Suleiman ; Ide, Tobias; Feitelson, Eran (2024): The role of environmental professionals in post-conflict transboundary cooperation: The cases of Israel and Jordan, Environmental Science & Policy, 151: 1, 103623. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103623
  • From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding: Exploring Local Dimensions
    | 2024
    Sändig, Jan; Dalmer, Natalia; Ide, Tobias; Vogler, Anselm (2024): From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding: Exploring Local Dimensions, Environment and Security, 2: 1, 3-20. DOI: 10.1177/27538796241231090
  • Conceptualizing resilience within environmental peacebuilding
    | 2023
    Johnson, McKenzie F; Ide, Tobias; Gonzalez Cruz, Jesann (2023): Conceptualizing resilience within environmental peacebuilding, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 65: 1, 101362. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101362
  • Climate, Women, and Conflict: Rebel Groups’ Armed Activities after Major Disasters
    | 2023
    Tobias Ide (2023): Climate, Women, and Conflict: Rebel Groups’ Armed Activities after Major Disasters, Global Studies Quarterly, 3: 3, 1-11. DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad039
  • An integrated deep-learning and multi-level framework for understanding the behavior of terrorist groups
    | 2023
    Jiang, Dong; Wu, Jiajie; Ding, Fangyu; Ide, Tobias; Scheffran, Jürgen; Helman, David; Zhang, Shize; Qian, Yushu; Fu, Jingying; Chen, Shuai; Xie, Xiaolan; Ma, Tian; Hao, Mengmeng; Ge, Quansheng (2023): An integrated deep-learning and multi-level framework for understanding the behavior of terrorist groups, Heliyon, 9: 8, e18895.
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  • Factors predicting mathematics achievement in PISA: A systematic review
    | 2023
    Ide, Tobias; Malpique, Anabela; Perry, Laura B.; Wang, Xiaofang Sarah (2023): Factors predicting mathematics achievement in PISA: A systematic review, Large-scale Assessments in Education, 11: 24. DOI: 10.1186/s40536-023-00174-8
  • Collective Violence against Health Workers in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
    | 2023
    Jacobi, Davina; Ide, Tobias (2023): Collective Violence against Health Workers in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nursing Reports, 13: 2, 902-912. DOI: 10.3390/nursrep13020079
  • Exploring the worldwide impact of COVID-19 on conflict risk under climate change
    | 2023
    Xie, Xiaolan; Hao, Mengmeng; Ding, Fangyu; Ide, Tobias; Helman, David; Scheffran, Jürgen; Wang, Qian; Qian, Yushu; Chen, Shuai; Wu, Jiajie; Ma, Tian; Ge, Quansheng; Jiang, Dong (2023): Exploring the worldwide impact of COVID-19 on conflict risk under climate change, Helyion, 9: 6, e17182.
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  • Sampling Bias in Environmental Peacebuilding Research. Environment and Security
    | 2023
    Ide, Tobias (2023): Sampling Bias in Environmental Peacebuilding Research. Environment and Security, 1, 1: Environment and Security, 10-23. DOI: 10.1177/27538796221143850
  • Environment and Security in the 21st Century
    | 2023
    Swain, Ashok; Bruch, Carl; Ide, Tobias; Lujala, Päivi; Matthew, Richard; Weinthal, Erika (2023): Environment and Security in the 21st Century, Environment and Security, 1: 1, 3-9. DOI: 10.1177/27538796221149609
  • Climate Change and Australia’s National Security
    | 2023
    Ide, Tobias (2023): Climate Change and Australia’s National Security, Australian Journal of International Affairs , 77: 1, 26-44. DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2023.2170978
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  • The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research
    | 2023
    Ide, Tobias; Johnson, McKenzie F.; Barnett, Jon; Florian, Krampe; Le Billon, Philippe; Maertens, Lucile; von Uexkull, Nina; Vélez-Torres, Irene (2023): The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research, Environmental Politics, 32: 6, 1077-1103. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2022.2156174
  • Rise or Recede? How Climate Disasters Affect Armed Conflict Intensity
    | 2023
    Ide, Tobias (2023): Rise or Recede? How Climate Disasters Affect Armed Conflict Intensity, International Security , 47: 4, 50-78. DOI: 10.1162/isec_a_00459
  • It’s all about politics: Migration and resource conflicts in the global south
    | 2022
    Ide, Tobias; Hermans, Kathleen; Seppelt, Ralf; Wiederkehr, Charlotte (2022): It’s all about politics: Migration and resource conflicts in the global south, World Development, 157: 1, 105938. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105938
  • Varying climatic-social-geographical patterns shape the conflict risk at regional and global scales
    | 2022
    Hao, Mengmeng; Ding, Fangyu; Xie, Xiaolan; Fu, Jingying; Qian, Yushu; Ide, Tobias; Maystadt, Jean-François; Chen, Shuai; Ge, Quansheng; Jiang, Dong (2022): Varying climatic-social-geographical patterns shape the conflict risk at regional and global scales, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9: 276. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01294-2
  • Modelling Armed Conflict Risk under Climate Change with Machine Learning and Time-Series Data
    | 2022
    Ge, Quansheng; Hao, Mengmeng; Ding, Fangyu; Jiang, Dong; Scheffran, Jürgen; Helman, David; Ide, Tobias (2022): Modelling Armed Conflict Risk under Climate Change with Machine Learning and Time-Series Data, Nature Communications, 13, 2839. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30356-x
  • QCA in International Relations: A Review of Strengths, Pitfalls, and Empirical Applications
    | 2022
    Ide, Tobias; Mello, Patrick A. (2022): QCA in International Relations: A Review of Strengths, Pitfalls, and Empirical Applications, International Studies Review, 24: 1. DOI: 10.1093/isr/viac008
  • COVID-19 and armed conflict
    | 2021
    Ide, Tobias (2021): COVID-19 and armed conflict, World Development, 140: 1, 1–6. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105355
  • The Past and Future(s) of Environmental Peacebuilding
    | 2021
    Ide, Tobias; Bruch, Carl; Carius, Alexander; Conca, Ken; Dabelko, Geoffrey D; Matthew, Richard; Weinthal, Erika (2021): The Past and Future(s) of Environmental Peacebuilding, International Affairs, 97: 1, 1–16. DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiaa177
  • Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus: “Forgotten” Variables, Alternative Securities, and Hidden Power Dimensions
    | 2021
    Ide, Tobias; Ensor, Marisa O.; Le Masson, Virginie; Kozak, Susanne (2021): Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus: “Forgotten” Variables, Alternative Securities, and Hidden Power Dimensions, Climate Change and Security, 9: 4. DOI: 10.17645/pag.v9i4.4275
  • Environmental peacebuilding from below: customary approaches in Timor-Leste
    | 2021
    Ide, Tobias; Palmer, Lisa R.; Barnett, Jon (2021): Environmental peacebuilding from below: customary approaches in Timor-Leste, International Affairs, 97: 1, 103–117. DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiaa059
  • First comes the river, then comes the conflict? A qualitative comparative analysis of flood-related political unrest
    | 2020
    Ide, Tobias; Kristensen, Anders; Bartusevičius, Henrikas (2020): First comes the river, then comes the conflict? A qualitative comparative analysis of flood-related political unrest, Journal of Peace Research, 58: 1. DOI: 10.1177/0022343320966783
  • Recession and fossil fuel dependence undermine climate policy commitments
    | 2020
    Ide, Tobias (2020): Recession and fossil fuel dependence undermine climate policy commitments, Environmental Research Communications, 2: 10, 101002. DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/abbb27
  • Teaching terrorism, saving the state?
    | 2020
    Teaching terrorism, saving the state?. Education and geopolitical imaginations of terrorism in 12 violently challenged states, Political Geography, 77: 1, 102125. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102125
  • Pathways to water conflict during drought in the MENA region
    | 2020
    Ide, Tobias; Rodriguez Lopez, Miguel; Fröhlich, Christiane; Scheffran, Jürgen (2020): Pathways to water conflict during drought in the MENA region, Journal of Peace Research, 58: 3. DOI: 10.1177/0022343320910777
  • The economic, political, and social implications of environmental crises
    | 2020
    Ide, Tobias; Fröhlich, Christiane; Donges, Jonathan F. (2020): The economic, political, and social implications of environmental crises, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101: 3, E364-E367. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0257.1
  • The dark side of environmental peacebuilding
    | 2020
    Ide, Tobias (2020): The dark side of environmental peacebuilding, World Development, 127: 1, 104777. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104777
  • Klimawandel und Sicherheit: Es könnte besser oder schlechter werden, als wir denken
    | 2020
    Ide, Tobias (2020): Klimawandel und Sicherheit: Es könnte besser oder schlechter werden, als wir denken, Die Friedenswarte, 92: 3–4, 190–193.
  • Deciphering Interwoven Drivers of Environment-related Migration
    | 2020
    Groth, Juliane; Ide, Tobias; Sakdapolrak, Patrick; Hermans, Kathleen (2020): Deciphering Interwoven Drivers of Environment-related Migration. A Multisite Case Study from the Ethiopian Highlands, Global Environmental Change, 63: 1, 102094. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102094
  • Education for Environmental Peacebuilding
    | 2019
    Ide, Tobias; Tubi; Amit (2019): Education for Environmental Peacebuilding. Insights from Three Projects in Israel and Palestine, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110: 1, 1–17. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1613954
  • The Impact of Environmental Cooperation on Peacemaking
    | 2019
    Ide, Tobias (2019): The Impact of Environmental Cooperation on Peacemaking. Definitions, Mechanisms, and Empirical Evidence, International Studies Review, 21: 3, 327–346. DOI: 10.1093/isr/viy014
  • Advancing research on climate change, conflict and migration
    | 2019
    Hermans, Kathleen; Ide, Tobias (2019): Advancing research on climate change, conflict and migration, Die Erde, 150: 1, 40–44. DOI: 10.12854/erde-2019-411
  • The critical geopolitics of water conflicts in school textbooks
    | 2019
    Ide, Tobias; Thiel, Anna-Katharina; Fischhendler, Itay (2019): The critical geopolitics of water conflicts in school textbooks. The Case of Germany, Water Alternatives, 12: 1, 304–321.
  • International Water Cooperation and Environmental Peacemaking
    | 2018
    Ide, Tobias; Detges, Adrian (2018): International Water Cooperation and Environmental Peacemaking, Global Environmental Politics, 18: 4, 63–84. DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00478
  • Climate War in the Middle East?
    | 2018
    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. DOI: 10.1007/s40641-018-0115-0
  • The Geopolitics of Environmental Education
    | 2018
    Ide, Tobias; Alwan, Abdulkhaleq; Bader, Kalil; Dougui, Noureddine; Husseini, Maysoun; Imad, Elarbi; Gaafar Marzouk, Farouk; Taha Moustafa, Amani; Spielhaus, Riem (2018): The Geopolitics of Environmental Education, Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 10: 2, 64–83. DOI: 10.3167/JEMMS.2018.100204
  • On the appropriate use of QCA in environmental management research
    | 2018
    Ide, Tobias (2018): On the appropriate use of QCA in environmental management research. A comment on Hossu et al., Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment, 47: 7, 831–832. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-018-1092-1
  • School textbooks, peace and conflict: An introduction
    | 2018
    Ide, Tobias; Kirchheimer, Jakob; Bentrovato, Denise (2018): School textbooks, peace and conflict: An introduction, Global Change, Peace and Security, 30: 3, 287–294. DOI: 10.1080/14781158.2018.1505717
  • Reply to 'Sampling bias does not exaggerate climate-conflict claims'
    | 2018
    Ide, Tobias; Barnett, Jon; Detges, Adrien; Adams, Courtland (2018): Reply to 'Sampling bias does not exaggerate climate-conflict claims', Nature Climate Change, 8: 6, 442–443. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0171-4
  • Does environmental peacemaking between states work?
    | 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. DOI: 10.1177/0022343317750216
  • Sampling bias in climate-conflict research
    | 2018
    Adams, Courtland; Ide, Tobias; Barnett, Jon; Detges, Adrien (2018): Sampling bias in climate-conflict research, Nature Climate Change, 8: 3, 200–203. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0068-2
  • Securitization Through the Schoolbook?
    | 2017
    Ide, Tobias; Detges, Adrian; Leimeister, Timo (2017): 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. DOI: 10.1057/s41268-017-0116-y
  • Terrorism in the Textbook
    | 2017
    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. DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2017.1293611
  • Research Methods for Exploring the Links between Climate Change and Conflict
    | 2017
    Ide, Tobias (2017): Research Methods for Exploring the Links between Climate Change and Conflict, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 8: 3, 1–14. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.456
  • Critical Geopolitics and School Textbooks
    | 2016
    Ide, Tobias (2016): Critical Geopolitics and School Textbooks. The case of environment-conflict links in Germany, Political Geography, 55: 1, 60–71. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.07.002
  • Conflict and Cooperation in the Water-Security Nexus
    | 2016
    Link, P. Michael; Scheffran, Jürgen; Ide, Tobias (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. DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1151
  • Space, Discourse and Environmental Peacebuilding
    | 2016
    Ide, Tobias (2016): Space, Discourse and Environmental Peacebuilding, Third World Quarterly, 38: 3, 544–562. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1199261
  • Resilience and Environmental Security
    | 2016
    Schilling, Janpeter; Nash, Sarah Louise; Ide, Tobias; Scheffran, Jürgen; Froese, Rebecca; von Prondzinski, Pina (2016): Resilience and Environmental Security. Towards Joint Application in Peacebuilding, Global Change, Peace & Security, 29: 2, 107–127. DOI: 10.1080/14781158.2017.1305347
  • Towards a Constructivist Understanding of Socio-Environmental Conflicts
    | 2016
    Ide, Tobias (2016): Towards a Constructivist Understanding of Socio-Environmental Conflicts, Civil Wars, 18: 1, 69–90. DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2016.1144496
  • Between Redeemer and Work of the Devil
    | 2015
    Selbmann, Kirsten; Ide, Tobias (2015): Between Redeemer and Work of the Devil. The Transnational Brazilian Biofuel Discourse, Energy for Sustainable Development, 29: 1, 118–126. DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2015.10.006
  • Why Do Conflicts over Scarce Renewable Resources Turn Violent?
    | 2015
    Ide, Tobias (2015): Why Do Conflicts over Scarce Renewable Resources Turn Violent?. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Global Environmental Change, 33: 1, 61–70. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.04.008
  • Socio-environmental Cooperation and Conflict?
    | 2015
    Ide, Tobias; Fröhlich, Christiane (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. DOI: 10.5194/esd-6-659-2015
  • On Exposure, Vulnerability and Violence
    | 2014
    Ide, Tobias; Schilling, Janpeter; Link, Jasmin S. A.; Scheffran, Jürgen; Ngaruiya, Grace; Weinzierl, Thomas (2014): On Exposure, Vulnerability and Violence. patial Distribution of Risk Factors for Climate Change and Violent Conflict across Kenya and Uganda, Political Geography, 43: 1, 68–81. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.10.007
  • On Climate, Conflict and Cumulation
    | 2014
    Ide, Tobias; Scheffran, Jürgen (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. DOI: 10.1080/14781158.2014.924917
  • Violent Climate or Climate of Violence?
    | 2014
    Scheffran, Jürgen; Ide, Tobias; Schilling, Janpeter (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. DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2014.914722

  • Der Katastrophen-Konflikt Nexus
    | 2024
    Ide, Tobias; Ben Bih, Karima; Peters, Katie (2024): Der Katastrophen-Konflikt Nexus. Zusammenhänge von extremen Naturereignissen, bewaffneten Konflikten und Instabilität, WeltRisikoBericht 2024: Multiple Krisen, Berlin: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft.
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  • Population Displacement and Migration
    | 2022
    Ide, Tobias (2022): Population Displacement and Migration, in: Glasser, Robert (eds), Climate Change and Security in the Asia-Pacific, Canberra: ASPI, 66–71.
  • Environmental Peacebuilding
    | 2020
    Ide, Tobias (2020): Environmental Peacebuilding, Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199743292-0290
  • Does Climate Change Drive Violence, Conflict and Human Migration?
    | 2020
    Zhang, David D.; Pei, Qing; Fröhlich, Christiane; Ide, Tobias (2020): Does Climate Change Drive Violence, Conflict and Human Migration?, in: Hulme, Mike (eds), Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer, London: Routledge, 51–64.
  • Renewable Resource Scarcity, Conflicts, and Migration
    | 2020
    Ide, Tobias (2020): Renewable Resource Scarcity, Conflicts, and Migration, in: Krieger, Tim; Panke, Diana; Pregerning, Michael (eds), Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance: Bristol University Press, 17–36.
  • Environmental Peacebuilding in the Middle East
    | 2018
    Ide, Tobias; Sümer, Vakur; Aldehoff, Larissa M. (2018): Environmental Peacebuilding in the Middle East, in: Swain, Ashok; Öjendal, Joakim (eds), Routledge Handbook on Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding, London: Routledge, 175–187. DOI: 10.4324/9781315473772
  • Environment
    | 2018
    Ide, Tobias (2018): Environment, in: Fuchs, Eckhardt; Bock, Annekatrin (eds), Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 357–366. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53142-1_26
  • Using SKAD to Investigate Cooperation and Conflict Over Water Resources
    | 2018
    Ide, Tobias (2018): Using SKAD to Investigate Cooperation and Conflict Over Water Resources, in: Keller, Reiner; Schünemann, Wolf J.; Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (eds), The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse, London: Sage, 237–253. DOI: 10.4324/9781315170008-13
  • Einführung: Konzepte, Trends und Themen der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
    | 2017
    Ide, Tobias (2017): Einführung: Konzepte, Trends und Themen der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, in: Ide, Tobias (eds), Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 7–32.
  • Ein Klima der Gewalt?
    | 2017
    Ide, Tobias (2017): Ein Klima der Gewalt?. Die Diskussion um Klimawandel und gewaltsame Konflikte, in: Ide, Tobias (eds), Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 193–226.
  • The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Pathways, Regional Links, and Case Studies
    | 2016
    Ide, Tobias; Link, P. Michael; Scheffran, Jürgen; Schilling, Janpeter (2016): The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Pathways, Regional Links, and Case Studies, in: Brauch, Hans Günter; Oswald Spring, Úrsula; Grin, John; Scheffran, Jürgen (eds), Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace, Dordrecht: Springer, 285–304. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43884-9_12
  • Climate Change, Biofuels and Conflict
    | 2016
    Ide, Tobias; Selbmann, Kirsten (2016): Climate Change, Biofuels and Conflict, in: Singh, Ram Sarup; Pandey, Ashok; Gnansounou, Edgar (eds), Biofuels: Production and Future Perspectives, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 25–40.
  • Violent Climate or Climate of Violence?
    | 2015
    Scheffran, Jürgen; Ide, Tobias; Schilling, Janpeter (2015): Violent Climate or Climate of Violence?. Concepts and Relations with Focus on Kenya and Sudan, in: Zimmerer, Jürgen (eds), Climate Change and Genocide: Environmental Violence in the 21st Century, London: Routledge, 107–126.
  • Sicherheitsgefahr Ressourcenfluch: Zum Zusammenhang von Ressourcenreichtum und innerstaatlichen Gewaltkonflikten
    | 2015
    Ide, Tobias (2015): Sicherheitsgefahr Ressourcenfluch: Zum Zusammenhang von Ressourcenreichtum und innerstaatlichen Gewaltkonflikten, in: Jäger, Thoma (eds), Handbuch Sicherheitsgefahren, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 43–52.
  • Einleitung. Der Klimawandel im Spannungsfeld von Gesellschaft, Politik und Ökonomie
    | 2012
    Ide, Tobias; Gellrich, Angelika; Christ, Tamina (2012): Einleitung. Der Klimawandel im Spannungsfeld von Gesellschaft, Politik und Ökonomie, in: Christ, Tamina; Gellrich, Angelika; Ide, Tobias (eds), Zugänge zur Klimadebatte in Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Psychologie, Marburg: Metropolis, 11–45.
  • Eine kurze Geschichte des Scheiterns, Oder: Warum wir wissen, dass es schlimm wird, und trotzdem (fast) nichts ändern
    | 2012
    Ide, Tobias (2012): Eine kurze Geschichte des Scheiterns, Oder: Warum wir wissen, dass es schlimm wird, und trotzdem (fast) nichts ändern, in: Christ, Tamina; Gellrich, Angelika; Ide, Tobias (eds), Zugänge zur Klimadebatte in Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Psychologie, Marburg: Metropolis, 57–84.
  • Kriege und Gewaltkonflikte als Folge des Klimawandels?
    | 2012
    Ide, Tobias (2012): Kriege und Gewaltkonflikte als Folge des Klimawandels?, in: Christ, Tamina; Gellrich, Angelika; Ide, Tobias (eds), Zugänge zur Klimadebatte in Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Psychologie, Marburg: Metropolis, 169–196.
  • Die „wahren“ Ursachen des Klimawandels
    | 2010
    Ide, Tobias (2010): Die „wahren“ Ursachen des Klimawandels, in: Aufenanger, Vanessa; Friedrichsen, Nele; Koch, Stephan (eds), Gerechtigkeit und Verantwortung in der Klima- und Energiepolitik, Münster: Monsenstein und Vanderat, 14–24.

  • From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding
    | 2024
    Dalmer, Natalia; Ide, Tobias; Sändig, Jan; Vogler, Anselm (2024): From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding. Special Issue von Environment and Security, 2: 1. DOI: 10.1177/27538796241231090
  • Environmental Peacebuilding
    | 2021
    Ide, Tobias; Carius, Alexander; Bruch, Carl; Dabelko, Geoffrey; Weinthal, Erika (2021): Environmental Peacebuilding, Special Issue von International Affairs, 97: 1.
  • School Textbooks, Peace and Conflict
    | 2019
    Ide, Tobias; Bentrovato, Denise; Kirchheimer, Jakob (2019): School Textbooks, Peace and Conflict, Special Issue von Global Change, Peace & Security, 30: 3.
  • Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
    | 2017
    Ide, Tobias (2017): Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich.
    Publication
    ISBN: 9783825286996
  • Zugänge zur Klimadebatte in Politikwissenschaften, Soziologie und Psychologie
    | 2012
    Christ, Tamina; Gellrich, Angelika; Ide, Tobias (2012): Zugänge zur Klimadebatte in Politikwissenschaften, Soziologie und Psychologie , Marburg: Metropolis.
    ISBN: 978-3-89518-940-1

  • Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints – How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts
    | 2023
    Ide, Tobias (2023): Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints – How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
    Publication
    ISBN: 9780262545556

  • Voting for Peace Down Under? The 2025 Australian Election in a Tumultuous World
    | 2025
    Ide, Tobias (2025): Voting for Peace Down Under? The 2025 Australian Election in a Tumultuous World, PRIF Blog.
    Publication

Further Activities

| 2025–2026
Conflict and Climate Change Lead, Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) Programme, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK (FCDO)

| since 2023
Founding Editor, Environment and Security

| 2020–2025
Director, Environmental Peacebuilding Association

  • Fede­ral Foreign Office, Ger­many
  • Depart­ment of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Austra­lia
  • Foreign, Common­wealth and Develop­ment Office, UK
  • German Society for Inter­national Co­operation (Deutsche Gesell­schaft für Inter­nationale Zusammen­arbeit, GIZ)
  • NATO
  • Uni­ted Nations
  • World Bank

| 2026 
Best Austra­lian researcher in the field of diplo­macy and inter­national relations (The Australian)

| 2025
Best Austra­lian researcher in the field of di­plomacy and inter­national relations (The Australian)

| 2023
Emer­ging Peace Studies Scholar Award (Inter­national Studies Asso­ciation)

| 2023
Inter­national Research Award for Peace and Sus­tainability in the Anthro­pocene (Hans Günter Brauch Foundation)

| 2022
Enhan­cing the Environ­mental Peace­building Know­ledge Base Award (Environ­mental Peace­building Asso­ciation)