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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #34 – December 16, 2021 |
AnnouncementsCall for Nominations: 2022 Women Building Peace Award December 15, 2021 | USIP By nominating a woman peacebuilder, you are honoring her accomplishments, validating her dedicated work to the peacebuilding field, and recognizing her contributions to preventing and ending violent conflict.Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding GOING VIRTUAL* December 7, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies The Organizing Committee for the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding has decided to convert the hybrid format to an ostensibly virtual conference. |
EventsFor more upcoming events on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace, please visit our online calendar of events. Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding February 1, 2022 - 2022-02-04 EnPAx™ and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies online The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx™) and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) are delighted to announce that the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding will be held online on February 1-4, 2022, convened…January 12, 2022 Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy Online Important synergies exist between the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and the Arms Trade Treaty as both share similar and overlapping objectives.Conference: The Transnational Anti-Gender Movement in the Wide Anti-Democratic Climate December 16, 2021 Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy Online There is a lack of knowledge and awareness among policymakers and activists about what the anti-gender movement is, how it operates, the risks it poses and how to effectively develop strategies to counter… |
LibraryIn the past month, 10 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: January 1, 2021 | Peter Agamile, Ralitza Dimova, and Jennifer Golan We analyse gender differences in the response of smallholder farmers to droughts, taking the duration and severity of the event into account.January 1, 2021 | Susanne Hofmann and Melisa Cabrapan Duarte This article resituates the debate on approaches to gender in contexts of natural resource extraction in Latin America and, subsequently, outlines an intersectional, feminist proposal focused on geopolitical positionality, which points to the…January 1, 2020 | Nicole George and Pauline Soaki While women’s contributions to peacebuilding and conflict mediation are currently viewed as central to the durability of peace, women peace leaders still face constraints in their work toward a peace that is gender-just. |
JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. Latin America: Gender and Climate Change Analyst December 11, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations The FAO Gender Equality Policy establishes four objectives to guide FAO's technical and normative work and seventeen minimum standards to support the establishment of institutional mechanisms for gender mainstreaming.Iraq: Request for Proposals for a Gender Studies and Gender Social Work Expert, Kurdistan Region December 11, 2021 | SEED Foundation SEED Foundation in coordination with Salaheddin University’s social work department is currently implementing the ‘Protecting and Empowering Survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)’ program.Afghanistan: Programme Manager, Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls December 11, 2021 | UN Women Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, UN Women works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement… |
International NewsIn the past month, 12 international news items on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace were posted on our website. The following is a sampling: Liberia: UNDP Supports Gender Stakeholders' Conference On Women's Political Participation September 9, 2021 | All Africa Monrovia — Delegates at a gender stakeholders' conference are reviewing and strengthening an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on women's political participation, signed between the National Elections Commission (NEC) and nineteen (19) political…Liberia: NaFAA Distributes Free Fishing Nets to Fishermen in Grand Bassa August 16, 2021 | Lennart Dodoo, FrontPage Africa The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) has fulfilled its pledge to Fishermen as over 300 received several thread nets in exchange for their rubber or plastic nets in Grand Bassa County.Liberia: Golden Veroleum Reacts to Rights Groups' Reports Condemning It of Illtreating Liberians August 16, 2021 | FrontPage Africa Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc. |
Blogs & OpinionIn the past month, 12 blogs & opinion pieces on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace were posted on our website. Here is a sampling: December 13, 2021 | Shruti Samala “In a changing world with galloping, growing needs, we can’t keep making the same efforts, issuing the same pleas, and just write bigger and bigger checks and expect different results,” said Samantha Power,…Mining Sector Has an Obligation to Fight Gender-Based Violence December 8, 2021 | Nolitha Fakude The Minerals Council SA and our member companies are well aware that we operate in a context and climate where sexual harassment and gender-based violence (GBV) are not isolated incidents but are pervasive…Promoting Gender and Climate Smart Investment November 16, 2021 | Katja Silva-Leander and Kongkona Sarma Climate change is set to cause unimaginable disruption unless immediate action is taken, and its impacts will disproportionately affect women — increasing inequality. |
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Compiled by Desirée De Haven, Molly Kellogg, Rachel Stromsta, Sarah Xu, and Leela Yadav 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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