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Conflict Prevention, Mediation, & Resolution

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Perils of Peacebuilding: Gender-Blindness, Climate Change and Ceasefire Capitalism in Colombia and Myanmar (chapter in "Feminist Conversations on Peace")

2022 | Bristol University Press
Henri Myrttinen and Diana López Castañeda

Peacebuilding requires a complex set of operations and transformations that address root causes of conflict, repairs victims and creates trust – all of which are…


Peacebuilding Perspectives and Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa (chapter in "Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa")

2025 | Palgrave Macmillan
J. Shola Omotola

This chapter proposes a peacebuilding approach to the management of herder-farmer conflicts in Africa. Specifically, the chapter reflects on the contending perspectives on peacebuilding, notably…


From Forests to Frontlines: Echoes of Ecofeminism and Antimilitarism in Congo's Struggle

2024 | Jamia Millia Islamia
Hajar Taha

Amidst the tumultuous currents of our world, rife with armed conflicts, rampant militarism, forced displacements, humanitarian crises, and the unsettling rise of far-right ideologies, ecofeminists…


Be a Man: A Theory of Climate Change, Masculinities and Violence

2024 | Environment and Security
Ben Francis

Experts increasingly agree that the impacts of climate change are likely to create new violent conflict risks and exacerbate existing ones. However, the extent of…


Realities Beyond Reporting: Women Environmental Defenders in South Africa

2022 | Feminist Media Studies
Dalena Tran

Women environmental defenders continue to face marginalization despite their growing significance in ecological conflicts. The media’s role in empowering or further rendering them invisible is…


Strengthening Women Engagement in Post-conflict Peace-building in Northeast Nigeria: An Interrogation of the UN Resolution 1325

2023 | Cogent Arts & Humanities
Olawale James Gbadeyan, Adedolapo Adegboyega Ola, Oluwaseun Samuel Osadola, and Olusola Mathew Ojo

The activism towards increased engagement of women participation in peacebuilding process dates back to 1975, from the UN Women conference in Mexico, the 1980 Women…


Community Voices on Climate, Peace and Security: Kenya

2023 | CGIAR
Leonardo Medina, Vanessa Souza de Matos, Alex Lekaram, Caroli Giulia, Anna Belli, Oliver Unverdorben, Nyang'ori Ohenjo, Benson Kenduiywo, Theresa Liebig, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Laderach, John Hellin, Stefen Sieber, and Michelle Bonatti

This study conducted a participatory appraisal of climate vulnerabilities and conflict risks three communities across Kenya: 1) members of the Yiaku Indigenous Peoples in the…


Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security 

2023 | Global Environmental Politics
Cameron Harrington, Phellecitus Montana, Jeremy J. Schmidt, and Ashok Swain

This Forum article reports on a meta-review of more than 19,000 published works on water security, of which less than 1 percent explicitly focus on…


Decolonized Human, Gender, and Environmental: HUGE Security and Peace

2023 | Global Peace and Security
Úrsula Oswald-Spring

This article explores diverse peace paradigms from negative and realist to liberal, structural, and cosmopolitan peace. The liberal focus in a multi-diverse world with an…


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…


An Overview of the African Peacebuilding Network's Contribution to African Peacebuilding Literature

2023 | African Peacebuilding Network
Godwin Onuoha

This working paper surveys, documents, and analyzes the contributions of APN scholars to the knowledge and practice of peacebuilding in Africa against the background of…


Gender-Based Violence in Food Systems

2023 | Nature Food
Lora Forsythe

Gender-based violence (GBV) is an important and pervasive global health and human rights issue whereby prevalence rates have remained unchanged for a decade. However, the…


Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Somalia

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in over four decades. More frequent and intense floods and droughts fuel competition over natural resources, exacerbating community tensions…


Water and Conflict in the Inner Niger Delta: A Governance Challenge

2022 | Water, Peace and Security
Alys Brown, Camille Marquette, and Ely Cissouma

Conflicts in the Sahel region are mounting. The Inner Niger Delta, located in the Sahelian zone of central Mali at the crossroads between lusher south Mali…


Environmental Degradation and Genocide

2022 | Genocide Studies and Prevention
Emily Sample and Henry Theriault

In January 2021, the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Genocide Studies and Prevention journal hosted three panels on Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass…


Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Mali

2021 | Norweigian Institute of International Affairs and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Mali is characterised by short-term climate variability, and is vulnerable to long-term climate change due to high exposure to the adverse effects of climate change,…


Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Ethiopia

2022 | Norweigian Institute of International Affairs, and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Ethiopia is currently experiencing one of its most severe droughts in decades following four consecutive failed rainy seasons. The country has a high dependency on…


Climate Change Mitigation in Forests: Conflict, Peacebuilding, and Lessons for Climate Security - Position Paper

2021 | CGIAR Focus Climate Security
Rodd Myers, Cecilia Luttrell, Rahayu Harjanthi, Micah R. Fisher, Mary Menton, Peter Läderach, and Eva Wollenberg

Climate change mitigation in forests: Conflict, peacebuilding, and lessons for climate security III There is growing awareness of the link between climate change and security.…


Women Speak: The Lived Nexus Between Climate, Gender and Security

2022 | DCAF
Megan Bastick and Camille Risler

A growing body of research recognises the gendered impacts of climate change, and how these are impacted by armed conflict. Women often bear the brunt…


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…


Climate Change and Violent Conflict in West Africa: Assessing the Evidence

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Kheira Tarif

West Africa is widely cited as a hotspot of climate change and insecurity. This SIPRI Insights uses a systematic literature review of academic research to…


The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict

2018 | Oxford University Press
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to address a complex range of challenges, contexts, geographies, and…


Climate Change and Security: The Handbook

2020 | adelphi
Stella Schaller, Katarina Schulz, and Beatrice Mosello

This manual is a compilation of introductory texts and the most relevant reports in the field of climate change and security. It covers the issue…


Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Report of the Secretary General

2020 | United Nations

The past decade has seen a paradigm shift in global understanding of the impacts of the atrocity of conflict-related sexual violence, particularly in terms of…


No Tribe In Crime: Changing Pastoralism and Conflict in Nigeria’s Middle Belt - Research and Policy Brief

2019 | Mercy Corps
Chitra Nagarajan, Ibrahim Hassan, and Phebe Banu

Farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria has attracted increased media attention both locally and internationally, though its main actors, causes, and consequences are often the source of…


Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change

2020 | United Nations Environment Programme, UN Women, UNDP, and UNDPPA/PBSO

Climate change is a defining threat to peace and security in the 21st century – its impacts are felt by everyone, but not equally. Gender…


Shifting Dynamics in Pastoralist Communities Perspectives from North Kordofan, Sudan

2020 | United Nations Environment Programme, UN Women, and UNDP

This study was commissioned as a contribution to the project “Promoting gender-responsive approaches to natural resource management for peace in North Kordofan, Sudan,” an initiative…


Gender, Climate Change, and Conflict Dynamics in Egypt: Opportunities for Synergistic Action

2020
Marisa O. Ensor

Egypt’s rapid population growth and extreme water scarcity make the country highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The country’s long Mediterranean coastline is…


Report Summary: Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change

2020 | United Nations Environment Programme, UN Women, UNDP, and UNDPPA/PBSO

In many regions of the world, the impacts of climate change are exacerbating conditions that threaten peace and security. Rising temperatures, extended droughts, or heavier,…


Gender and New Wars

2020 | Stability
Christine Chinkin, Mary Kaldor, and Punam Yadav

This brief introduction to the special collection outlines the main features of new wars and discusses some of the conceptual thinking around gender in the…