Pirate's Cove

This should totally stop the violence from the religion of peace in the Middle East

The next generation of climate peacebuilders

At the UNDP-led Twin Transition Ideation Bootcamp in Cairo, Egypt, Nour Bahgat arrived with an idea and left with a solution. Together with her fellow participant Mohammed Al-Hedewy, the 22-year-old developed RESILIA, an AI-enabled concept for safely harvesting floodwater that can help alleviate the water stress her country faces.

Their work speaks to an urgent global reality. Nearly 700 million young people live in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where the impacts of climate change overlap with existing socio-economic and political vulnerabilities.

For them, it means disrupted education and work, fewer pathways to a secure future, and greater exposure to violence. Yet they are not waiting on the sidelines. With ingenuity, innovation and cooperation, they are shaping practical responses to the interconnected challenges of climate, peace and security.

Climate shocks do not arrive in a vacuum. In communities already living with conflict and instability, floods and droughts can erode harvests, disrupt incomes and place greater strain on land, water and basic services. These losses also weaken the local economies and the social bonds that help communities withstand pressure.

Young people often feel these effects first. When work is scarce and their voices are absent from local decision-making, uncertainty can leave them vulnerable to exploitation by violent extremist groups and criminal networks, who prey on their desperation by offering financial incentives, illicit employment or a false sense of security. What begins as an ecological crisis quickly turns into a human security threat.

It’s not the first time the doomsday cult has tried to excuse the behavior of Islamic extremism, nor use an existing issue to push their cult beliefs, nor will it be the last.

Oh, and, Egypt would be just another backwards, 3rd world nation without fossil fuels.