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Afghanistan: Despite the Taliban’s Pledge to Eradicate Opium, the Poppy Trade Still Flourishes in Afghanistan
International
The Taliban have always had a complicated relationship with the opium trade. As a narcotic, opium is haram, or forbidden under Islamic law. But at…
The UAE and Israel Have a History of Strong Female Leadership. Women Must Take Substantial Roles in the Next Phase of the Abraham Accords.
International
It has been more than two years since the Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan.…
Sustainable Peace Cannot Be Built Where Rights of Women Are Ignored, Says Deputy Secretary-General at Security Council Open Debate
International
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the Security Council open debate on peacebuilding and sustaining peace, in New York today:
I would like…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Kurdish Region Warns against 'Unlawful' Stop to Funds
International
Iraqi Kurdish authorities on Thursday pushed back against a decision by Iraq’s top court that blocked payments from state coffers funding the semi-autonomous region. Jutiar…
Liberia: At a Rubber Plantation in Liberia, History Repeats in a Fight over Land
International
Sexual harassment of its workers isn’t the only charge that’s been leveled against Socfin here in Liberia: in 2019, 22 communities filed a complaint against…
Liberia: Gov’t Clears Export of US$4M ‘Illegal Logs’
International
The government of Liberia will finally give Renaissance Group Incorporated, a controversial logging company, the green light on January 28, to go ahead with the…
When Women Hold Local Office: Women’s Representation and Political Engagement amid Conflict and Climate Shocks across Africa
Briefs & Development
One argument in favor of quotas for women’s representation in political office is that female politicians can break down gender barriers more broadly, inspiring individual…
Post-Conflict Restitution of Customary Land: Guidelines and Trajectories of Change
Briefs & Development
Since the 1990s a body of soft international law and public policy has developed around property restitution after conflict. The Pinheiro Principles and the Voluntary…
Gendered Violence Martying Filipina Environmental Defenders
Briefs & Development
This article contributes to discussions of extractive violence by exploring how gender influences violent circumstances under which women were assassinated during environmental conflicts. Partnership with…
Strengthening Women Engagement in Post-conflict Peace-building in Northeast Nigeria: An Interrogation of the UN Resolution 1325
Briefs & Development
The activism towards increased engagement of women participation in peacebuilding process dates back to 1975, from the UN Women conference in Mexico, the 1980 Women…
Impact of Environmental Crime on Indigenous Women: Evidence from Ecuador, Mexico, Cameroon and Indonesia
Library
Organized crime is driving environmental degradation and biodiversity loss in forest eco- systems around the world. The impact of environmental degradation on indigenous forest-dependent communities…
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…