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Dr Elisa D'Amico

Associate

About

Elisa D’Amico is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. Her research examines the intersections of climate change, conflict, migration, and political economy, with expertise in advanced methods and computational social science. She previously served as a consultant, and then Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews on the PeaceRep project, and has held visiting and consultancy roles with the University of Basel, the University of Denver, and the World Wildlife Fund, where she worked on forecasting fisheries conflict and developing data-driven tools for peacebuilding. She has also contributed to several National Science Foundation grant projects focused on environmental security, conflict prediction, and computational social science.

Her scholarship has appeared in leading journals including the Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Peace Research, Nature Climate Action, Civil Wars, and Environmental Policy and Governance. She also serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Politics, Review of International Political Economy, and International Migration.

 

Dr. D’Amico is affiliated with the Private Enterprise and Peace (PEP) Lab, is a Fellow at the Centre for Global Law and Governance, and a member of the Network for Climate, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability and the Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) network. She is a frequent invited speaker, having given talks at the Political Economy of Climate and Environment (PECE), the International Summer Course on (Im)mobilities (ISCM), the Bridging the Gap – International Policy Summer Institute (IPSI), the “Anthropocene” Ringvorlesung Lecture Series, Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP): Climate Action, and Back in Business: Bringing Firms into Global Local Networks of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding.

Select Publications

Peer-Reviewed Article

Private Goods for Peace: Economic Provisions of Peace Agreements and the Durability of Peace

2025 (forthcoming)

Journal of Peace Research

Working Paper

From Ocean Changes to Conflict: Predicting Fishery-Related Militarized Disputes in a Warming World

2025

World Wildlife Fund

Please note that these publications are not the intellectual property of the company and are owned by the publisher and/or author. The views expressed in listed publications are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the company. Furthermore, these publications have not necessarily been commissioned by the company and may have been produced with the support and funding of various other institutions. Please view the publication links for details about this. 

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