Inclusive Governance
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Protecting & Empowering Women & Girls in Situations of Crisis & Conflict
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Since the mid-1990s, there have been significant increases in the recorded number of all disasters and in deaths resulting from those disasters, especially in low-income…
'Outside the Net': Women's Participation in Fishing Activities in Trincomalee District of Sri Lanka
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‘The woman left us slowly and moved to the other side of the beach seine, sat down on the sand and started piling the seaweed…
UN Report Highlights Women’s Roles in Natural Resource Management During and After Conflict
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It’s been 14 years since the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 acknowledging women as important agents of change in recovery from conflict and peacebuilding…
Women, Human-Wildlife Conflict, and CBNRM: Hidden Impacts and Vulnerabilities in Kwanfu Conservancy, Namibia
Briefs & Development
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes are designed to ensure that rural residents benefit from conservation initiatives. But where human-wildlife conflict threatens life and livelihood,…
Climate Change Adaptation and Population Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean
Briefs & Development
Latin America and the Caribbean face multiple risks from a changing climate, from sea level rise to glacial melt to extreme weather and disease. Recent…
Reinvigorating Resilience: Violence Against Women, Land Rights, and the Women's Peace Movement in Myanmar
Briefs & Development
In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain…
Preventing Conflict: The Origins of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (Chapter in "Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace: A Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325"
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Throughout history women peace activists from all over the world have united to try and put an end to war. Their call for a commitment…
Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace: A Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
Briefs & Development
To mark the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), the Security Council adopted resolution 2122 (2013) inviting the Secretary-General to conduct a…
UN Security Council Resolution 2242 (2015)
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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…
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: General Recommendation No. 33 on Women’s Access to Justice
Briefs & Development
The right to access to justice for women is essential to the realization of all the rights protected under the Convention on the Elimination of…
Women and Climate Change: Linking Ground Perspectives to the Global Scenario
Briefs & Development
The 18th Conference of Parties (COP-18) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Doha in 2012 decided to enhance the participation…
Social Capital, Conflict, and Adaptive Collaborative Governance: Exploring the Dialectic
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Previously lineal and centralized natural resource management and development paradigms have shifted toward the recognition of complexity and dynamism of social-ecological systems, and toward more…
Land Tenure in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges, Opportunities and Way Forward
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This Publication presents the readings of a review of land tenure security issues in fifteen (15) selected countries across Asia and the Paci c region.…
Gender-Sensitivity in Natural Resource Management in Cote d'Ivoire and Sudan
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Over the past decade, a wide body of scholarship has emerged on the relationship between violent conflict and natural resources. As this research unequivocally demonstrates,…
Women's Land Rights and Africa's Development Conundrum- Which Way Forward?
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How can African countries use land policies to ensure agricultural development and inclusive growth? Particularly in countries which are dominated by patriarchal land ownership systems?…
Alina Saba of Nepal and Agnes Kinaka of Papua New Guinea Reflect on Their Participation in the UN Climate Summit
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In addition to the 120 Heads of State who attended the UN Climate Summit in September, 38 civil society representatives were selected by their peers…
Can Women Make the World More Peaceful?
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Do women hold the key to a peaceful society? Much is known about the victimisation of women through rape, trafficking, and early marriages, but much…
Conflict Minerals: How to Make the Most of Africa’s Business Boom
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Following the close of this week's unprecedented U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the business community's eyes are trained on Africa. Perhaps not since colonization has the West…
Voices from Nepal: Promoting Women's Climate Leadership
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The magnitude of the problem of climate change and environmental degradation in a mountainous and developing country like Nepal is very alarming.
Rapid population growth and…
China/Japan: Pacific Rim Deal Could Reduce Chance of Unintended Conflict in Contested Seas
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — A naval code of conduct approved by more than 20 nations around the Pacific, including China, Japan and the United States, could…
Model of Environmental Communication with Gender Perspective in Resolving Environmental Conflict in Urban Area
Briefs & Development
Conflicts over natural resources in urban areas have led to the reduction in the quality and capacity of the environment which transformed into an environmental…
Ecocentrism in India: An Incredible Model of Peaceful Relation with Nature
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This article highlights the importance of traditional knowledge, culture and tradition practices in achieving sustainable development. Indian civilization is one of the most primitive and…
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda
Briefs & Development
We evaluate the short-term impact of a pilot land regularization program in Rwanda using a geographic discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects. Three key findings…
World: Empowering Women in Natural Resource Management Critical for Lasting Peace in War-Torn Countries, Says UN Report
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Geneva /New York/Nairobi, 6 November 2013 - Ensuring that women have better access to and control of natural resources such as land, water, forests and…
On International Day, Ban calls for protection of natural resources in war-torn countries
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UN Security Council Resolution 2122 (2013)
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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)
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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
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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…