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Infographic: Climate Change, Conflict and Peace
Library
Our climate and environment is changing at a rate never seen before in human history. The way we respond to these changes has the potential…
Decolonizing Human, Gender, and Environmental: HUGE Security and Peace (chapter in "Global Peace and Security")
Briefs & Development
This article explores diverse peace paradigms from negative and realist to liberal, structural, and cosmopolitan peace. The liberal focus in a multi-diverse world with an…
Decolonized Human, Gender, and Environmental: HUGE Security and Peace
Briefs & Development
This article explores diverse peace paradigms from negative and realist to liberal, structural, and cosmopolitan peace. The liberal focus in a multi-diverse world with an…
Standing Firm: The Land and Environmental Defenders on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
Briefs & Development
For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world,…
The Role of Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Environmental Peacebuilding (chapter in "Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding")
Briefs & Development
This chapter explores the role of international legal obligations on fair and equitable benefit-sharing to the integration of natural resource management and environmental protection in…
Integrating Gender, Peace and Environment: The Gender Dimension of Environmental Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
The interlinked nature of environmental protection and natural resource management on the one hand, and peacebuilding on the other, has been clearly established in the foregoing chapters.…
Community Voices on Climate and Security: A Social Learning Approach
Briefs & Development
The linkages between climate change and human insecurity have been the subject of considerable debate over the past decade. Critical voices argue that methods for…
Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice
Briefs & Development
This interdisciplinary book constitutes the first major and comparative study of resilience focused on victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). Locating resilience in the relationships…
An Overview of the African Peacebuilding Network's Contribution to African Peacebuilding Literature
Briefs & Development
This working paper surveys, documents, and analyzes the contributions of APN scholars to the knowledge and practice of peacebuilding in Africa against the background of…
A Mediation Analysis of the Linkages Between Climate Variability, Water Insecurity, and Interpersonal Violence
Briefs & Development
Numerous studies have examined the effects of climate change on many aspects of both human health and violence. Fewer studies have investigated the links between…
Gender-Based Violence in Food Systems
Library
Gender-based violence (GBV) is an important and pervasive global health and human rights issue whereby prevalence rates have remained unchanged for a decade. However, the…
Women in Water Diplomacy Network After Action Report
Library
In August 2022, the Women in Water Diplomacy Network launched the ‘A Path Forward for Women, Water, Peace and Security’ Global Strategy at the World Water Week.
The…
Gaps and Silences: Gender and Climate Policies in the Global North
Briefs & Development
For decades, feminist activists and scholars have stressed the importance of integrating gender perspectives into the most defining challenge of our time: the climate disaster.
Peace Studies and the Limits to Growth
Briefs & Development
Scientists have issued increasingly dire warnings about the present and future danger posed by ecological overshoot. Peace scholars’ entrée into this discourse is often through…
Environment and Security in the 21st Century
Briefs & Development
Environment and Security positions itself as an interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed journal responding to a broader interest in the topic. It is committed to theoretical and…
Gendered Participatory Resource Mapping: Case Studies of Upland and Coastal Indigenous Communities in Mindanao, Philippines
Briefs & Development
Participatory mapping (PM) approaches are grounded on local spatial knowledge, community interests and needs. Indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples (ICCs/IPs) in the Philippines have been involved…
The Role of Gender in the Transboundary Water Governance of the Nile Basin
Library
This volume assesses the nexus of gender and transboundary water governance, containing empirical case studies, discourse analyses, practitioners’ accounts, and theoretical reflections.
Transboundary water governance exists…
Colombia: Land Titling Advances in Colombia
International
Colombia's Minister of Agriculture, Cecilia Lopez, confirmed that her Ministry will close this year with one million hectares titled to promote agrarian reform.
International Women’s Day 2023: “DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality”
International
The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023 (IWD 2023) is, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”. This theme is aligned with the…
Liberia: Gov’t Revenue from Extractive Industries Reaches US$84.6M
International
Government revenue from the extractive industries in 2021 stood at US$84.6 million, a report from the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) has revealed. The…
Indonesia: Ministry Seeks Gender-Responsive Climate Change Policies
International
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) is seeking to make policies related to climate change gender-responsive.
DRC: Glencore Agrees to Pay Congo $180 Million over Bribery Case
International
Commodities company Glencore said Monday that it has reached an agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo to pay $180 million over bribery allegations spanning…
Kenya: UN’s Highest Environmental Honour Celebrates Ecosystem Restoration
International
Nairobi, 22 November 2022 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced its 2022 Champions of the Earth, honouring a conservationist, an enterprise, an economist, a women’s…
Liberia: Call to Strengthen Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land
International
In commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Voluntary Guidelines for responsible Governance of land tenure (VGGT), Liberia has held a National Dialogue as participants…
Iraq: Supporting Local Dialogue to Address Climate Security Risks in Iraq
International
While the impacts of climate change manifest differently in Iraq, Iraq is the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change worldwide (UNEP). Combined with long-standing…
Liberia: Promoting Women's Rights and Land Ownership in Liberia
International
“In the past, women never owned land here but today, women, men, and youth can sit together with the elders and decide issues on land…
Liberia: Liberian Senate Raises Concerns over Mining Sector amid Widespread Illicit Activities
International
The Liberian Senate is seeking information from the Ministry of Mines and Energy regarding the operation of the small to medium-scale mining sub-sector. This is…
At COP27, 41 Grassroots Women’s Organizations Launch New Global South Alliance for Indigenous and Local Women and Girls
Blog
SHARM-EL-SHEIKH (November 11, 2022) — On November 11 at CoP27, 41 grassroots women’s organizations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America launched a new advocacy network…
Give More Women the Microphone at COP27
Blog
Women are leading the climate revolution. At COP27, speakers should cede time to hear what they have to say.
In 2016, I (Catherine) was slated to…
COP27 Can Do More for Women Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change and Conflict
Blog
14 November will be ‘gender day’ at COP27. Could this be an opportunity to support women in the Sahel in their effort to tackle the…