We are pleased to present The Annual Mahatma Gandhi Lecture on
Nonviolence.
"Climate Change Refugee Migration"
with Dr. Robert McLeman
, Wilfrid Laurier University

Robert McLeman is Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid
Laurier University. A former diplomat, Dr. McLeman is an influential scholar and
researcher of how climate change affects the migration and displacement of people in
Canada and around the world. He has served as a consultant on environmental migration
for government agencies in Europe and North America, the World Bank, OECD, and
multiple UN organizations. He also served as Coordinating Lead Author for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report,
leading an international team of scientists in assessing the impacts of climate change on
human health, wellbeing, migration and conflict. His book “Climate and Human
Migration: Past experience, future challenges” (Cambridge University Press, 2014) has
been the primary textbook for undergraduate and graduate teaching on the topic for
almost a decade.

Centre for Peace Studies and Global Peace
and Social Justice Program
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