With soaring food prices triggering riots in Egypt, climate change threatening increased population displacement and the world’s growing demand for energy caught up with both, are these interlinked issues the new challenges to conflict prevention in Africa? If so, what could and should the international community - including the UK - do to address the problem? The speakers assessed the dimensions of these risks and provided an overview on how the international community perceives them, as well as how they are currently responding.
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Lord Malloch Brown
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN
Alex Evans
Non-Resident Fellow at the Centeron International Cooperation, NYU, and former Special Adviser to Hilary Benn MP when Secretary of State for International Development.
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Lord Malloch Brown
Scarcity Issues and Conflict in Africa by Alex Evans
