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There are 211 resources related to Asia & Pacific.


Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D

Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…


State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in South Asia and the Hindu Kush Himalaya

2022 | ICIMOD, UN Women, UNEP
Chanda Gurung Goodrich, Abid Hussain, Binaya Pasakhala, Kosar Bano, Sanjeev Bhuchar, Vishwas Sudhir Chitale, Suman Bisht, Aditya Bastola, and Simran Silpakar

South Asia and the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) are among the regions that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Its adverse impacts…


Joint Statement on Promoting Women, Peace and Security in ASEAN

2017 | ASEAN

WE, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (hereinafter referred to as “ASEAN”), namely Brunei Darussalam, the…


ASEAN's Transformative Journey: Role of Women in Peace and Security

2019 | Nanyang Technological University
Noeleen Heyzer

ASEAN has embarked on exploring how to implement the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the region. It has recently organised “an inaugural intersectoral…


Women and Land in the Muslim World

2018 | UN-HABITAT
Ombretta Tempra, Siraj Sait, and Rafic Khouri

Access to land is a key element that allows women and men to fully play their role in building peaceful, stable and prosperous societies and…


Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes

2024 | Pacific Forum
Lily Schlieman, Maryruth Belsey Priebe, Charity Borg, Anny Barlow, and Tevvi Bullock

The Coral Triangle, spanning Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste, is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity. The region is…


Gender in Civil-Military Climate Security and Disaster Response: Co-Creating Gender-Transformative Approaches amid the Global Climate Crisis

2024 | Pacific Forum International
Maryruth Belsey Priebe and Tevvi Bullock

With the growing frequency, intensity, and severity of climate crisis events and disasters, defense and security institutions will be increasingly called upon to provide humanitarian…


Natural Resources and Conflict: A Guide for Mediation Practitioners

2015 | United Nations Department of Political Affairs and United Nations Environment Programme
Michael J. Brown, Alex Grzybowski, David Jensen, and Josie Lianna Kaye

This report bridges the gap between the technical and political aspects by providing a much needed conflict resolution framework for disputes that center on natural…


Conflicts over Water and Energy Resources in Central Asia and Their Impact on Women's Rights

2024 | International University of Kyrgyzstan
Gulima A. Seitalieva

Central Asia has sufficient water and energy resources. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have large reserves of fresh water. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan have oil and gas.…


Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice

2022 | UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
E. Tendayi Achiume

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…


Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene

2021 | Springer
Oswald Spring, Úrsula Brauch, and Hans Günter

In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts…


Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus: “Forgotten” Variables, Alternative Securities, and Hidden Power Dimensions

2021 | Politics and Governance
Tobias Ide, Marisa O. Ensor, Virginie Le Masson, and Susanne Kozak

The literature on the security implications of climate change, and in particular on potential climate-conflict linkages, is burgeoning. Up until now, gender considerations have only…


Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity in Agriculture: A Different Perspective From Southeast Asia

2017 | Food Policy
Sonia Akter, Pieter Rutsaert, Joyce Luis, Nyo Me Htwe, Su Su San, Budi Raharjo, and Arlyna Pustika

This study presents evidence of women empowerment from Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. Women have equal access to productive resources and a greater control over household income…


The Climate Security Nexus and the Prevention of Violent Extremism: Working at the Intersection of Major Development Challenges

2020 | UNDP
Catherine Wong, Nika Saeedi, Samuel Rizk, Shiloh Fetzek, Dustin Schinn, Sujala Pant, Srinivas Kumar, Desislava Kyurkchieva, and Armen Grigoryan

This policy brief explores initial lessons learnt from a climate security perspective of efforts to prevent violent extremism in politically and environmentally fragile contexts affected…


Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential

2013 | UN Environment, UNDP, UN Women, and UN Peacebuilding Support Office
Silja Halle, Adrienne Stork and Cassidy Travis

This report focuses on the relationship between women and natural resources in conflict-affected settings, and discusses how the management of natural resources can be used…


Mujeres y Recursos Naturales: Liberando el Potencial Para la Consolidacion de la Paz

2013 | UN Environment, UNDP, UN Women, and UN Peacebuilding Support Office

Las diversas experiencias de las mujeres en tiempos de conflicto tienen poderosas implicaciones para la consolidación de la paz. Su capacidad para recuperarse del conflicto…


Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes

2024 | Pacific Forum International
Lily Schlieman, Maryruth Belsey Priebe, Charity Borg, Anny Barlow, and Tevvi Bullock

The Coral Triangle is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity and provides food security to over 130 million people living in and around the region.…


Exploring Environmental Violence: Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement

2024 | Cambridge University Press
Richard Marcantonio, John Paul Lederach, and Agustin Fuentes

The contributors to this book represent a wide breadth of scholarly approaches, including law, social and environmental science, engineering, as well as from the arts…


A Changing Climate for Peace: Navigating Conflict in the Climate Crisis

2023 | Conciliation Resources
Laura Aumeer, Tom Barton, and Kat French

The global climate crisis, and how humans respond to it, is changing and amplifying the dynamics of current violent conflicts and is contributing to new…


Standing Firm: The Land and Environmental Defenders on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis

2023 | Global Witness

For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world,…


Climate Change and Security: Perspectives from the Field

2020 | UN University Centre for Policy Research
Adam Day

This policy brief examines the issue of climate- security primarily from the perspective of UN field offices around the world. It draws principally on aset of…


Gender, Conflict and Security: Perspectives from South Asia

2017 | Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs
Shweta Singh

This article provides an overview to this special issue of JASIA, entitled ‘Gender, Conflict and Security: Perspectives from South Asia’. Gender intersects with conflict and security…


Gender and Human Rights in Coastal Fisheries and Aquaculture: A Comparative Analysis of Legislation in Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu

2021 | Pacific Community
Alison Graham and Ariella D’Andrea

This study was undertaken by SPC to examine the opportunities for and barriers to human rights application in coastal fisheries and aquaculture legislation in Fiji,…


Gender and Disaster. Bibliography and Reference Guide, Volume 1

2020 | IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster, University College London
Louisa Acciari, Maureen Fordham, Virginie Le Masson, Anjali Saran, Olivia Walmsley, and Punam Yadav

This first volume is part of an ongoing series to compile the literature on Gender and Disaster and to share it with other disciplines and…


Introduction: Gender, Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response

2019 | Gender & Development
Julie Lafrenière, Caroline Sweetman, and Theresia Thylin

Welcome to this issue of Gender & Development, which is a joint issue co-edited with Theresia Thylin of UN Women’s Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response…


And She Persisted for Peace: Redesign the Table

2020 | Transcend Oceania & Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict

Redesign the Table comes ahead of the annual convening of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and ahead of the 20th anniversary of the…


Women Building Peace

2024 | Conciliation Resources

This volume looks back at a wealth of women’s peacebuilding practice documented by Accord since 1998. Case studies from Cambodia, Sierra Leone, northern Uganda, Papua…


Gender in Inter-State Water Conflicts

2015 | Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
Tobias Von Lossow

When discussing gender in the context of water and conflict, both politics and research turn a blind eye on the particular and prominent issue of inter-state…


Corporate Social Responsibility and Natural Resource Conflict

2016 | Routledge
Kylie McKenna

This book examines the possibilities and limitations of corporate social responsibility in minimising the violent conflict often associated with natural resource exploitation. Through detailed and…


The Climate-Conflict-Urban Migration Nexus: Honduras, Jordan, and Pakistan

2023 | US Institute of Peace
Gabriela Nagle Aleverio, Jeannie Sowers, and Erika Weinthal

In Honduras, chronic droughts and severe natural disasters, including hurricanes and landslides, increasingly drive rural migrants to cities, where chronic gang violence and a lack of…