Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Issue #79 – October 16, 2025

Announcements

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

October 14, 2025

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Environmental Peacebuilding Awards (Deadline: 30 November 2025)

October 8, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to present awards to leaders, practitioners, and researchers from our community.

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Events

Advocate for Gender and Environmental Peacebuilding at These Events in 2025!

March 15, 2025 - 2025-12-31

Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Check out these exciting 2025 events in our infographic!

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Library

In the past month, 5 new publications were added to our online library of materials on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace. Here is a sampling of the new additions:

Association Between Food Insecurity and Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Gendered Asset Policies

October 10, 2025 | Faith Miller, Jenevieve Mannell, Laura Brown, Andrew Gibbs, and Abigail Hatcher

Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects an estimated 27% of women globally, with consequences spanning mental, physical and societal well-being.

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Climate, Peace and Security Thematic Fact Sheet: Women, Peace and Security

October 1, 2025 | Ingvild Brodtkorb, Barbara Magalhães Teixeira , Gretchen Baldwin, Kheira Tarif, Katongo Seyuba, Thor Olav Iversen, Minoo Koefoed, and Jules Duhamel

This Climate, Peace and Security Thematic Fact Sheet examines how women, peace and security concerns intersect with climate-related risks and conflict dynamics.

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Environmental Peacebuilding. Prospects, Social and Gender Aspects

September 20, 2025 | Marina Chichua

Background:
The peace-building process is an essential tactic for addressing the social, political, and economic issues that arise during and following conflicts.

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Energy Justice and Gender: Bridging Equity, Access, and Policy for Sustainable Development

June 23, 2025 | Raghu Raman, Victoria Ustenko, Walter Leal Filho, and Prema Nedungadi

Clean energy transitions are not just about technology. They are also about people, equity, and justice.

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More than Connecting the Gender Dots: Exploring a Deep Relations Approach in Environmental Peacebuilding

March 17, 2025 | Heidi Hudson

This article proposes a paradigm shift in environmental peacebuilding beyond the peaceful distribution of resources, cooperative approaches and integrative frameworks and offers a feminist-relational approach that puts relations between men and women, communities…

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Jobs

South Sudan: Terms of Reference for Trainers & Experts in Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship

October 10, 2025 | STOOS Consulting

STOOS Consulting is recruiting South Sudan-based trainers and facilitators to deliver practical, context-appropriate training and coaching for women, youth, farmers, VSLAs, and MSMEs, with a focus on remote/rural access and fragile settings.

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Iraq: Terms of Reference for Trainers & Experts in Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship

October 10, 2025 | STOOS Consulting

STOOS Consulting seeks Iraq-based trainers and technical experts to deliver hands-on, market-relevant training and coaching for women, youth, farmers, small businesses, VSLA groups, and TVET learners.

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Ethiopia: Country Director

October 3, 2025 | ActionAid Ethiopia

ABOUT ACTIONAID

ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) is a Gender justice and poverty eradication organization.

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Nigeria: Short Term Expert Consultant, GIZ PEACECORP II

October 1, 2025 | Corus International

About Corus: Corus International is the parent of a family of world-class social impact organizations that collaborate in the world's most vulnerable communities to deliver the holistic and sustainable solutions needed to address the…

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International News

Kenya: Turkana’s Trailblazers: The Women Redefining Leadership on Oil-Rich Land

October 14, 2025 | Moraa Obiria

What you need to know:  Two Turkana women, Veronica Natesiro and Jane Atabo, are breaking barriers by leading their community’s land governance in Lokichar.

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Colombia: IOM and EU Launch Initiative to Strengthen Inclusive Disaster Preparedness in Latin America

October 13, 2025

Bogotá, Colombia, 13 October 2025 – As climate-related disasters intensify across Latin America, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union have launched Prepárate+, a new regional initiative that places inclusion at…

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Nepal: Rural Women Reshaping Agriculture in Nepal

October 10, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific

To mark International Day of Rural Women 2025, we celebrate their leadership, resilience and work towards a world where they are the architects and beneficiaries of a sustainable future.

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Mexico: Women in Mexico Step Up to Protect Ancient Aztec Farms and Save a Vanishing Ecosystem

October 8, 2025 | Teresa De Miguel

Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands of…

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DRC: Beans that Break the Cycle: Food, Freedom and Female Power in DRC

October 3, 2025 | Bola Amoke Awotide, Julie Ntawinja, Yohane Chideya, Hosny Dunia, Richard Kataliko, Lucky Kalisya, and Jean Claude Rubyogo

In eastern DRC, women are reclaiming land through the B4WE project, using biofortified beans to fight malnutrition, gain economic independence, and foster peace.

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Ghana: In Coastal Ghana, Female Oyster Farmers Try to Save an Old Practice Threatened by Climate Change

September 18, 2025 | Naa Adorkor Cudjoe and Ope Adetayo

Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale.

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Blogs

Explainer: Why Gender Matters in Disaster Risk Reduction

October 13, 2025 | UN Women Europe and Central Asia

Disasters are happening more often, costing more, and affecting more lives than ever before. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is not just reacting when a crisis hits.

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Compiled by Maria Camilla CadonicciKathleen McLean, Katie Alhusen, Natalia Jimenez, and Maryruth Belsey Priebe

Edited by Madeleine Loll

Coordinated by Mara Pusic 

Designed by Graham Campbell

Managed and Published by Silja Halle and Carl Bruch

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