Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Issue #65 – July 26, 2024

Spotlight

Intersectional Perspectives on Environmental Peacebuilding

July 26, 2024 | Marisa O. Ensor

At a time when the world is witnessing the greatest number of conflicts since World War II, and irrefutable scientific evidence confirms that  humanity has fundamentally and irreversibly transformed the Earth system, the field of…

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Announcements

Call for Contributions to the Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms

July 24, 2024 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is excited to announce the launch of a process to develop a Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms and to invite contributions to this collaborative effort.

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Events

For more upcoming events on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace, please visit our online calendar of events.

Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing 30+ Review

November 19, 2024 - 2024-11-21

ESCAP and UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

United Nations Conference Center, Bangkok, Thailand, Thailand

ESCAP will convene the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review in collaboration with UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, in Bangkok, from 19-21 November 2024.

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21st Annual Women’s Leadership Conference | Women Leading the Change: Towards Peacebuilding, Justice and Social Transformation

November 8, 2024 - 2024-11-10

Women's Federation for World Peace International

Regent Warsaw Hotel, Poland

The Women’s Federation for World Peace, International (WFWPI) is an NGO working in over 120 nations to empower women and girls as peacebuilders and leaders through education, advocacy, partnership, reconciliation and humanitarian service-…

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2024 Women's Environmental Leadership Summit

October 18, 2024 - 2024-10-20

Anacostia Community Museum

Washington, D.C

Launched in 2018 to build capacity for the next generation of environmental leadership, Women’s Environmental Leadership (WEL) engages a multigenerational network of women whose environmental efforts at local, national, and international levels are…

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Library

In the past month, 8 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:

Migration and Adaption: The Impact of Migration on Women's Adaptive Capacity in Mahanadi Delta, India

January 1, 2024 | Giorgia Prati

The climate-migration debate has an overwhelming focus on the implications of environmental stressors for migration decision-making.

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Women's Participation in Community-Based Adaption to Climate (CBACC): An Intersectional Analysis

January 1, 2024 | Gulay Jannat and Kyoko Kusakabe

This study explores which women participate in community-based adaptation (CBA) from an intersectional perspective. This study followed in-depth interviews (IDIs) and key informant interviews (KIIs) methods for data collection in Latachapli, Bangladesh.

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Women Empowerment Through Climate-Smart Agriculture in Southwest Region of Bangladesh

January 1, 2024 | Karimun Nessa

This study examines the adaptation practices of women farmers in the southwest region of Bangladesh, who received land assistance from the World Bank after being displaced due to cyclone Aila.

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Jobs

Please visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities.

Research Consultants to Identify Good Practices for Women’s Participation in Peace Processes (Service contract)

European Institute of Peace

Based in Brussels and active in over a dozen countries, the European Institute of Peace (www. eip.

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International News

In the past month, 8 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:

Gabon/Republic of Congo: New Study Confirms FSC-Certified Forests Help Wildlife Thrive in the Congo Basin

April 10, 2024 | Wildlife Conservation Society

A new study reveals compelling evidence that forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council®(FSC®) in Gabon and the Republic of Congo harbour a higher abundance of larger mammals and critically endangered species, such as gorillas…

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‘Huge Blind Spot’: The 19th’s Jessica Kutz on Covering the Gender-Climate Connection

April 10, 2024 | Columbia Journalism Review

Jessica Kutz spends a lot of time explaining her beat to others. Kutz is the gender, climate, and sustainability reporter at The 19th, a nonprofit publication focused on gender.  

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South Sudan: Ruptured Oil Pipeline Causes South Sudan’s Revenues to Nosedive

March 29, 2024 | Okech Francis and Simon Marks, Bloomberg

South Sudan’s state revenues have plummeted as a result of a ruptured pipeline crucial for the country’s ability to export crude to foreign markets.

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Blogs and Opinions

In the past month, 9 blogs & opinion pieces on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace were posted on our website. Here is a sampling:

Health Equity and Gender Equality in a More Violent World

June 26, 2024 | Valerie Percival

Violence and instability are rising around the world.

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How to Make Locally Led Climate Adaptation Finance More Gender Responsive

June 25, 2024 | Ntezi Mbabazi & Rose Pinnington

Northern donors are making efforts to fund local actors more directly and enable greater local leadership, notably within climate adaptation programming aiming to promote gender equality.

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How to Advance Peace and Security Through a Climate and Gender Lens? Reflections From Youth at the UN Women’s GEN-Forum 2024

June 25, 2024 | Clare Steiner & Khaing Su Lwin

The unfolding triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution in the Asia-Pacific region has critical implications for human security, conflict, and inequality.

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Compiled by Carrie Hanks, Roba Gaafar, Tori Rickman, and Annika Dengel

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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