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The Unrealised Potential for Transformative Reparations for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Sierra Leone
Briefs & Development
The conflict in Sierra Leone was known for the scope and severity of atrocities targeted at civilians, including sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) mainly perpetrated…
Leaving No One Behind: Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Heart of Sustainable Development
Briefs & Development
In April 2016, the members of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) committed to put the imperative to eliminate discrimination and…
Women in State Building through Engaging in High Value Cash Crops in Post-Conflict Nepal: Exploring the Linkages
Briefs & Development
Nepal entered the state building process after signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2006, thus ending the decade long bloody armed conflict between the…
Gender and the Role of Women in Colombia's Peace Process
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Through desk research, literature review, and personal interviews, this paper provides an overview of the Colombian internal armed conflict and the peace process currently underway…
More than Women and Men: A Framework for Gender and Intersectionality Research on Environmental Crisis and Conflict
Briefs & Development
Over the past two decades, the important role of gender in environmental and water-related crises and conflicts has been increasingly recognized. Environmental crises occur in…
Bridging Troubled Waters: Water Security across the Gender Divide
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An increasing number of world regions is expected to become chronically short of water in future climate scenarios, even if there is no global water…
Introduction: Security in the Vernacular and Peacebuilding at the Margins; Rethinking Violence Reduction
Briefs & Development
This article introduces a Peacebuilding special issue on rethinking security, peacebuilding and violence reduction in the light of Sustainable Development Goal 16 on ‘promoting peaceful and inclusive…
“Just Women” Is Not Enough: Towards a Gender-Relational Approach to Water and Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
Gender is a topic that every large development and peacebuilding organisation mainstreams in its programming. However, often “gender” implies a focus on women. We argue…
The Role of Women in Transboundary Water Dispute Resolution
Briefs & Development
Within decision-driven organisations that address water management and conflict mediation, there is much to be learnt about the role of women. At the provincial organisational…
Calming the Waters, Ploughing the Sea – Can Gender-Responsive Approaches to Intra-State Water Conflicts Lead to Peacebuilding? Evidence from Lebanon and Nepal
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Access to water, among other resources, has been and continues to be an implicit or explicit driver of intra-state conflict, and both access to water…
Food Security, Sustaining Peace and Gender Equality: Conceptual Framework and Future Directions
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The main objective of this study is to generate knowledge and make meaningful, evidence-based and actionable recommendations to governments and other stakeholders, particularly international organizations…
The Narrative of Conflict Minerals: An Exploration of Sexual Gender-Based Violence and Socioeconomic Impacts of the Dodd-Frank Act in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
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This thesis elaborates on a complex, multilayered gender perspective of mineral exports in the conflict of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The focus…
Land Tenure in South Sudan: Does It Promote Climate Change Resilience?
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Land was a key driver of the war between Khartoum and Southern Sudan. The Khartoum government had placed the land and its resources under the…
Women's Leadership: Critical to Securing the Paris Agreement; Essential to Fulfilling It
Blog
The Paris Agreement on climate change wouldn’t be what it is today without action from strong women from around the world. Christiana Figueres, the UNFCCC…
Women Pay Heavier Price for Big Dams
Blog
Large dams are displacing thousands of people in West Africa in societies where women traditionally have few legal or customary rights to the natural resources…
Can Mining Dig Rural Women Out of Poverty in Ghana?
Blog
Walking within the artisanal and small-scale mining population in Tarkwa, one of Ghana's principal mining regions, it dawns on me that the local population has…
The Role of Women in Creating Climate Resilient Communities: Focus on the Philippines
Blog
The Philippines is one of the world’s most vulnerable populations to the effects of climate change. When the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction…
Lessons From Uganda on Strengthening Women’s Voices in Environmental Governance
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It’s become popular to say that the health of the environment and the health of human communities are interlinked. Yet much of the investment aimed…
Women and Sustainable Development Goals
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On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the agreed framework for international development. It is…
Institutionalising Women, Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands: Gendering the ‘Architecture of Entitlements’?
Briefs & Development
Efforts to adopt provisions of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda in local policy contexts are often hailed enthusiastically by gender advocates as…
Artisanal Mining, Conflict, and Sexual Violence in Eastern DRC
Briefs & Development
The natural resource abundance of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has featured in policy debates as the prime example of ‘conflict minerals’ driving…
International Symposium on Water Diplomacy: An Overview
Briefs & Development
In recent years, diplomacy has evolved to be more inclusive, open and transparent, involving more diverse actors than the traditional diplomats, in order to better…
Women’s Economic Participation in Conflict-Affected and Fragile Settings
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The inability to put women entrepreneurs at the center of post-conflict reconstruction is one of development’s greatest failures. Addressing this issue requires more than gender…
Gender Equality Is Central to Effective Climate Action
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As the nations of the world meet in Paris to address climate change, it is critical that women play a central role in these historic…
Getting to the Root of Gender Equal Land Governance
Blog
While there is international agreement that we need gender equality in land ownership – achieving this in practice is more complex.
Women face a number of…
Liberia: Women Petition Senate to Pass Land Rights Bill
International
A group of women under the banner of the Women NGO Network Tuesday converged on the Capitol Building to petition the Liberian Senate to speedily…
Governance, Gender and no Guarantees in Africa’s Oil-Rich States
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The discovery of oil in Chad in 1969 did not yield many immediate benefits for a population that would soon be wracked by civil war,…
Does Gender Balance Improve Forestry and Fishery Management?
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Differences in women's and men's access to, control over, and use of local natural resources shapes the way that these resources are managed. Yet women…
Challenges After Conflict: Regional Consultation on Resolution 1325
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Resolution 1325 is not just a tool which can be used to protect women and sustain peace. It is also a testament to strong women…
Empowered Women = Happy Planet? Gender Equality in a Changing Environment
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Gender and women's empowerment are getting increasing attention in global discussions on climate change, sustainable development and the green economy. The international community is recognising…