Inclusive Governance
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UN Security Council Resolution 2122 (2013)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960…
UN Security Council Resolution 2106 (2013)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1265 (1999), 1296 (2000), 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005), 1674…
Persistent Women and Environment Linkages in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Agendas
Briefs & Development
Since the 1980s, the discourse that women are intrinsically closer to nature, are hardest hit by environmental degradation, and have special knowledge of natural resource…
Building Sustainable Peace and Prosperity through Women's Land Tenure Security: A Zambian Case Study
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Land security continues to be an understudied issue, despite the fact that conflicts over land have been part of human history since ancient times. Particularly…
Building Peace around Water, Land and Food: Policy and Practice for Preventing Conflict
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This paper looks at the need to take a conflict prevention approach to natural resource management, outlining relevant international law and considering useful examples of…
UN Women Sourcebook on Women, Peace and Security
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This collection of papers is a set of resource materials to support improved implementation of the five WPS resolutions. It consists of analytical documents explaining…
Water Source Conflict in Nepal: A Right to Water Perspective
Briefs & Development
The importance of the rights to water and sanitation in ensuring people’s wellbeing
and dignity is increasingly acknowledged globally. These rights are included in the
constitution under…
What Are The Opportunities to Promote Gender Equity in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States? Insights from a Review of Evidence
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This article draws on a study which reviewed current evidence and lessons on how gender equality can be effectively strengthened in the context of conflict-affected…
Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa
Briefs & Development
Land grabbing for growing biofuels and to ensure food security is capturing the imagination of multilateral institutions, donors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), land activists, academics and…
Peace, Conflict, and Development in Africa: A Reader
Briefs & Development
The Africa Programme of the UN–affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) is pleased to present Peace, Conflict, and Development in Africa: A Reader, another step in…
Land Policy in Africa: West Africa Regional Assessment
Country Assessments
The African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), acting as a consortium, have launched…
UN Security Council Resolution 1960 (2010)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005), 1674 (2006), 1820 (2008), 1882…
South Sudan Food Security and Land Governance Factsheet
Briefs & Development
Food security depends of secure access to land and water (rainfed or irrigated). In South Sudan most farmers rely on customary tenure systems, but which…
Peacebuilding Through a Gender Lens and the Challenges of Implementation in Rwanda and Côte d'Ivoire
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With the hypothesis in mind that discrimination against women increases the likelihood that a state will experience internal conflict, this article contends that considering gender…
Land in Return, Reintegration, and Recovery Processes: Some Lessons From The Great Lakes Region of Africa
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The chapter describes some of the political challenges involved in managing the transition from emergency activities to longer-term 'developmental' policies in Rwanda and Burundi. In…
UN Security Council Resolution 1888 (2009)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005), 1674 (2006), 1820 (2008) and 1882 (2009) and all relevant…
Land Politics and Conflict in Nepal: Realities and Potentials for Agrarian Transformation
Briefs & Development
Land has not only been one of the most contentious topics in the
political economy of Nepal over the last fifty years, but it has also
become…
Fiji: Indigenous Women Defend Community and Environment
Blog
In September of 2005, women from rural and urban areas throughout the Macuata Province, Fiji, met to create a strategic, ten-year sustainable development plan. The…
Indigenous Peoples, Gender, and Natural Resource Management
Briefs & Development
It is generally assumed that both gender and ethnicity are decisive factors in natural resource management and that changes in access to natural resources have…
Women in War and Peace: Grassroots Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
The United States Institute of Peace strives, through research, education, and training, to understand this role of nongovernmental entities in bringing about a stable peace…
Global Water Security Forum: Water Governance - Challenges from a Gender Perspective
Event
The UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Water Security in the FIU Institute of Environment & the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs invite…
What Has Happened to Gender Provisions in Peace Agreements?
Blog
The world seemed to be making slow but steady progress on the inclusion of gender sensitive provisions in peace agreements. References to women and gender had…
Day 9: Feminism and Food Sovereignty
Blog
Food sovereignty offers opportunities to advance women’s rights within the food system, but we must also work to restore gender relations within rural families and…