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A new study suggests El Niño may be to blame for nearly a quarter of recent global conflicts.

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Ray Fisman is the Lambert Family professor of social enterprise and director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School. His next book, The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office, will be published in January.

Illustration by Robert Neubecker. Photograph of storm aftermath by Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images.