Meta-events: The tale of the outbreak of the Arab Spring and the connection with climate change

Proceedings of The 3rd World Conference on Climate Change and Global Warming

Year: 2023

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Meta-events: The tale of the outbreak of the Arab Spring and the connection with climate change

Majid Asadnabizadeh

ABSTRACT: 

The revolution in the Arab world, the wave of attempts by individuals to establish genuine democracy that began between 2010 and 2011 in one of the most sensitive regions of the world, the Middle East, and North Africa, challenged some of the region’s entrenched autocratic political structures. The region is considered a place of climate change. The present research attempts to shape a real and logical connection of the Arab Spring and the effects of climate change. The Arab Spring has demonstrated that political instability is partly triggered by people’s primary needs for materials such as food and water. Climate change could therefore be a trigger for this meta-event.

This study addresses this issue using the method of event extraction. This paper argues that climate change and its impact on the lives of individuals in the region allows for a reasoned claim that this phenomenon is related to the Arab Spring, as it is primarily due to food and water stress.

keywords: Arab spring, Climate change, Middle east, North Africa