In 2003 Darfur started to attract the attention of the international community following the
outbreak of the conflict. Since then much is being written on what is happening on the ground
much less about the root causes of the conflict and that is the reason why it has been looked
at from a political perspective rather than from a scientific one. It has been described by
many as genocide resembling the tragedy of the 21st century. A tragedy of climate change
explains how the adverse of climate change has affected Darfur since the 1970s and how the
affect has intensified since the 1980s when the region witnessed a severe drought and famine.
These symptoms include the expanding desertification the decreased rainfall and the land
degradation left dire consequences. As a result more Darfurians are competing for access to
land water and other natural resources than at any other time. The increased competition only
further aggravates the already uneasy political social and ethnic relationships in the Darfur
region. This book seeks to critically analyze the role of climate change in intrastate
conflicts in less developed countries and links between climate change and the untraditional
concept of security threats.
