Event: Securing The Future? War and Peace in a Warming World
Join us at London Climate Week with Samar Al-Bulushi, Adrienne Buller, Adam Hanieh, Guillaume Long and Lorah Steichen — in partnership with The BREAK—DOWN and King’s College London.
On Friday 26 June, Transition Security Project, The BREAK—DOWN and King’s College London are co-hosting a public panel “Securing The Future? War and Peace in a Warming World” as part of London Climate Week.
Adrienne Buller (Founding Editor of the BREAK—DOWN) will be joined by Samar Al-Bulushi (UC Irvine and Quincy Institute), Adam Hanieh (Director of SOAS Middle East Institute and author of Crude Capitalism), Guillaume Long (former Foreign Minister of Ecuador and diplomatic adviser to the Hague Group) and Lorah Steichen (Transition Security Project) to unpack the relationship between fossil fuels and war, the question of oil wars and the geopolitical alignments produced by the energy transition.
The discussion will be recorded live and be broadcasted as a podcast from The BREAK—DOWN.
Adrienne Buller is the Founding Editor of The BREAK—DOWN, a new media initiative focused on the political economy of climate and ecological crisis. She is the author of The Value of a Whale, which won the 2024 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics.
Adam Hanieh is the Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute and the author of several books on Middle East politics, oil and capitalism, including Crude Capitalism and (with Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox) Resisting Erasure.
Guillaume Long is the former Foreign Minister of Ecuador and the Senior Diplomatic Adviser to the Hague Group. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Lorah Steichen researches climate, militarism and global political economy. She is the Research Manager at Transition Security Project and the Global Systems and Policy Manager at Climate and Community Institute.
Samar Al-Bulushi is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine and the author of War-Making as Worldmaking. She researches militarism in Africa, the politics of non-alignment and the future of global order.
Register here.
Securing The Future? War and Peace in a Warming World:
Date: 26 June 2026, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Location: Science Gallery, London, SE1 9GU
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