Kyungmee Kim
Affiliated Visiting researcher at Department of Peace and Conflict Research
- E-mail:
- kyungmee.kim@pcr.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Dr. Kyungmee Kim is a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research focusing on the intersection of climate change and insecurity, examining how climate resilience building can mitigate the risk of conflict and fragility. Kyungmee’s research also encompasses transboundary water conflict and cooperation, environmental peacebuilding, and the role of Artificial Intelligence in climate and environmental policy.
Keywords
- environmental peacebuilding
- environmental security
- climate change adaptation
- environmental justice
- human-water interactions
Biography
Dr. Kyungmee Kim is a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Her current research focuses on the intersection of climate change and insecurity, examining how climate resilience building can mitigate the risk of conflict and fragility. Kyungmee’s research also encompasses transboundary water conflict and cooperation, environmental peacebuilding, and the role of Artificial Intelligence in climate and environmental policy.
In 2021, she earned her PhD in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University with her dissertation titled ‘Civil Resistance in the Shadow of War: Explaining Popular Mobilization against Dams in Myanmar’. She is affiliated with the Research School for International Water Cooperation, housed within the UNESCO Center for Water Cooperation. Additionally, Kyungmee serves as an Associate Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Climate Change and Risk Programme.
With ample policy experience, Kyungmee has contributed as a lead author to policy reports commissioned by the European Union, World Bank, and UN Development Programme.

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of Ambio, p. 857-874, 2026
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Geopolitics of water agreements: cooperation, conflict, justice, and peace
Part of Handbook on the Geopolitics of Sustainability, p. 248-259, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026
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Part of Environment and Security, p. 319-341, 2025
- DOI for Grassroots resistance against hydropower dams: Community campaigns and civilian-rebel cooperation in Myanmar
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Streams of contestation, streams of cooperation: Toward a research agenda on water and peace
Part of Environment and Security, p. 405-425, 2025
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The Past, Present and Future of the Environment-Peace Nexus
Part of Pyeonghwadeul 평화들 / PEACES, p. 25-57, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Ambio, p. 857-874, 2026
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Part of Environment and Security, p. 319-341, 2025
- DOI for Grassroots resistance against hydropower dams: Community campaigns and civilian-rebel cooperation in Myanmar
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Streams of contestation, streams of cooperation: Toward a research agenda on water and peace
Part of Environment and Security, p. 405-425, 2025
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The Past, Present and Future of the Environment-Peace Nexus
Part of Pyeonghwadeul 평화들 / PEACES, p. 25-57, 2024
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Concurrent Challenges of Conflict and Climate Change in Myanmar
Part of Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 2024
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The Peace and Security Implications of Climate Change for the Nordic Region
Part of Nordic Review of International Studies, p. 109-116, 2024
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Integrating socio-hydrology, and peace and conflict research
Part of Journal of Hydrology, 2024
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Climate Change and Violent Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Part of International Studies Review, 2023
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Negotiating Water across Levels: A Peace and Conflict “Toolbox” for Water Diplomacy
Part of Journal of Hydrology, p. 100-109, 2018
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Land acquisition: a means to mitigate water scarcity and reduce conflict?
Part of Hydrological Sciences Journal, p. 1338-1345, 2016
Chapters in book
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Geopolitics of water agreements: cooperation, conflict, justice, and peace
Part of Handbook on the Geopolitics of Sustainability, p. 248-259, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026
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Climate, peace and security in Yemen
Part of SIPRI yearbook, p. 155-170, Oxford University Press, 2024
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Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and Beyond: A Typology of Water Crime
Part of The Human Face of Water Security, p. 95-111, Springer Publishing Company, 2017
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Part of Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin, p. 36-52, Routledge, 2016
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
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Transboundary water politics in the developing world
Part of Water international, p. 803-805, 2016