Janani Vivekananda is a Senior Adviser on climate change and peacebuilding at adelphi, Berlin.

Her work involves leading participatory field research on community-level resilience to conflict and climate change, developing conflict-sensitive approaches to climate change adaptation, and increasing the capacity of governments and civil society to integrate climate and conflict risk into policies and field projects.

Janani is one of the lead authors of the 2019 climate security risk assessment of Lake Chad, Shoring up Stability, and the 2015 flagship report “A New Climate for Peace”, dealing with climate change impacts on fragile states. Her current work involves supporting the German UNSC presidency’s climate security work.

Before joining adelphi, Janani was the Head of the Environment, Climate Change and Security at International Alert. Prior to this, she was the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) advisor at Plan International, where she supported headquarters and regional programmes on DRR issues, specifically in fragile states. Janani has also worked with the UNDP based in Nepal as a regional conflict advisor for the South Asia region.

Janani holds a master’s in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and a bachelor’s (hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.