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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #50 – April 20, 2023 |
SpotlightPromoting Gender Equity as We Celebrate Earth Day April 20, 2023 | Marisa O. Ensor Every year on April 22nd, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. |
AnnouncementsApril 13, 2023 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is delighted to announce that the Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding will be held in The Hague, Netherlands, from 19th- 21st June 2024, convened in partnership with… |
EventsFor more upcoming events on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace, please visit our online calendar of events. Climate Displacement in the Shadow of War: Feminist Refugee Perspectives on Hydro-disaster May 4, 2023 UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender 3335 Dwinelle Hall Please join us for the fourth lecture in our Spring 2023 series “Moving Out of Harm’s Way: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Climate-related Mobilities.Agrarian Questions of Gendered Labour in Global South Development Trajectories May 4, 2023 Oxford Department of International Development Queen Elizabeth House 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB For the ODS Annual Lecture 2023, Professor Lyn Ossome examines concerns around the structures, trajectories and gendered outcomes of capitalist development in the agrarian south, with the aim also of outlining a feminist decolonial critique…Thematic Review on Climate Security and Peacebuilding 2023 April 25, 2023 UN Peacebuilding Fund online The Peacebuilding fund invites everyone to the launch of the Thematic Review on Climate Security and Peacebuilding. |
LibraryIn the past month, 9 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: Gender and Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Rural Highlands of Ethiopia: Where Are the Trade-Offs? January 1, 2023 | Grace B. Villamor The introduction of modern bioenergy alternatives is promoted to address water–energy–food (WEF) security in the rural highlands of Ethiopia.Gender-Ethnicity Intersectionality in Climate Change Adaptation in the Coastal Areas of Bangladesh January 1, 2023 | Mohammad Assaduzzaman, Tatiana Filatova, Jon C. Lovett, and Frans H. J. M. Coenen Climate change effects are not uniform and have disproportionate impacts among different groups of people within communities.Thematic Review on Climate-Security and Peacebuilding January 1, 2023 | Erica Gaston, Oliver Brown, Nadwa al-Dawsari, Cristal Downing, Adam Day, and Raphael Bodewig While many have identified ways that climate change or environmental degradation might affect peace and security concerns, how to best respond to these so-called ‘climate-security’ challenges in peacebuilding contexts is still an emerging… |
JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: OPTI – Climate Change Advisor April 16, 2023 | Oxfam-Québec Oxfam is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. It offers lifesaving support in times of crisis and advocate for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action.Mozambique: Programme Analyst, Women Peace, and Security April 16, 2023 | United Nations Development Programme BackgroundUN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement… |
International NewsIn the past month, 11 international news items on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace were posted on our website. The following is a sampling: Liberia: Supreme Court Jails Six Traditional Leaders for Abducting a Judge over Land Dispute December 19, 2022 | FrontPage Africa The Supreme Court of Liberia has sentenced seven traditional leaders in Bong County to six months imprisonment at a common jail in connection with the capturing of a Judge and others by the…December 16, 2022 | United Nations Mission in South Sudan Every year between January and April, cattle herders from Tonj and Gogrial areas of Warrap, South Sudan move their animals to greener pastures near Wau, the capital of Western Bahr El Ghazal.Indonesia: Ministry Seeks Gender-Responsive Climate Change Policies December 16, 2022 | Antara Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) is seeking to make policies related to climate change gender-responsive. |
Blog & OpinionsIn the past month, 8 blogs & opinion pieces on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace were posted on our website. Here is a sampling: Opinion: Gender-Blind Policies Ignore the Disproportionate Effects of Water Crisis on Women April 13, 2023 | Bolormaa Purevjav, Adiya B. Tudiyarova, and Elena G. Fuertes The demand for water resources is higher than ever before. The growing global population, expanding industrial development and the impacts of climate change are exacerbating the global water crisis.Nexus of Climate Change & Gender-Based Violence April 9, 2023 | Ahsan H. Durrani In recent years, the intertwined crises of climate change and gender-based violence (GBV) have gained global attention.Gender Data Can Reinvigorate the SDGs March 15, 2023 | Papaalioune B. Seck and Krista J. Baptista In his February 2023 remarks to the General Assembly during the Consultation on the Summit of the Future, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged Member States to commit to rescuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).… |
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Compiled by Carrie Hanks, Sarah Xu, Leela Yadav, and Rachel Stromsta Edited by Julie Yoon Coordinated by Tori Rickman Designed by Graham Campbell Managed and published by Silja Halle and Carl Bruch |
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