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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #23 – January 21, 2021 |
EventsFor more upcoming events on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace, please visit our online calendar of events. Feminist Approaches to Global Grassroots Peacebuilding February 23, 2021 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Online Feminist approaches to the study of peace and conflict situate gender as a category that must be interrogated not only in our analyses of the causes and effects of conflict, but in our…Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass Violence: Intersections with Gender February 10, 2021 International Association of Genocide Scholars Online In conjunction with an upcoming special issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention of the same title, the International Association of Genocide Scholars is sponsoring three panel discussions for the purposes of sharing ideas, building connections,…COVID-19 and its Impact on Gender, Justice, and Security January 25, 2021 LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security Online The outbreak of a global pandemic has simultaneously revealed the fragility and robustness of health, education, economic, security, political and social systems. There is no shortage of exceptional responses to the pandemic. |
LibraryIn the past month, 7 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: Women, Peace and Security in a Changing Climate January 1, 2020 | Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson In this article, we argue that the effort to get the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda implemented in a series of bureaucratic institutions has pulled the agenda quite far from its original…January 1, 2020 | Nahusenay Abate Natural resources provide any material from the natural environment that can be used by people for support and sustenance of life on earth with its ecological value and manifold resources.Examining Gender Inequality and Armed Conflict at the Subnational Level January 1, 2020 | Erika Forsberg and Louise Olsson A growing body of quantitative research points to a robust relationship between gender inequality and armed conflict. In order to progress our understanding of this relationship, we make two contributions. |
International NewsIn the past month, 10 international news items on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace were posted on our website. The following is a sampling: Liberia: More Than 9,000 Burkinabes Illegally Squatting in Grand Gedeh August 28, 2020 | J. Burgess Carter, Observer Senator Marshall A. Dennis has confirmed that over nine thousand (9,000) Burkinabés are illegally occupying a portion of land belonging to citizens of Grand Gedeh County.DRC: DRC Announces Extension on Export Ban Moratorium for Key Minerals August 27, 2020 | Thomas Hedley, Africa Oil & Power The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has extended a new moratorium on the export ban of cobalt, tin, tungsten and tantalum concentrates.Brazil: Amazon ‘Women Warriors’ Show Gender Equality, Forest Conservation Go Hand in Hand August 27, 2020 | Rosamaria Loures and Sarah Sax, Inter Press Service On an early December morning last year in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, half a dozen members of the Indigenous Guajajara people packed their bags with food, maps and drone equipment to get… |
Blogs & OpinionIn the past month, 11 blogs & opinion pieces on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace were posted on our website. Here is a sampling: Women and Peacebuilding Can Help Reduce Poverty January 3, 2021 | Kylar Cade Violent conflict had been on the rise even before the onset of the pandemic.Women Working on the Front Line December 23, 2020 | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a crisis reaching far beyond health, challenging fundamental aspects of the ways we have previously arranged our social and economic structures.Can Promotion Groups Help Strengthen Women’s Access and Control over Land? November 24, 2020 | Ibrahima Dia In Senegal, women’s ‘promotion groups’ have traditionally been vehicles for helping women share resources, ideas and experiences to increase income. |
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Compiled by Desirée De Haven, Elen de Paula Bueno, Claire Doyle, Molly Kellogg, and Rachel Stromsta Edited by Marie Mavrikios Coordinated by Shehla Chowdhury Designed by Graham Campbell Managed and published by Silja Halle and Carl Bruch |
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