Conflict Prevention, Mediation, & Resolution
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Call for Proposals: Digital Technologies for Environmental Peacebuilding: Sustaining Peace in the Digital Age
Announcement
In the span of only a few decades, new big data ecosystems and a combination of frontier technologies, including social media, artificial intelligence, blockchain, earth…
UNDP Launches Gender and Crisis Engagement Facility
International
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced the establishment of a new facility designed to strengthen women’s leadership and participation in crisis contexts.
Liberia: Economics of Nature: Mapping Liberia's Ecosystems to Understand Their Value
International
Conservation scientist Trond Larsen and his team trekked through a remote forest in Liberia, recording the plants, animals, and insects that they saw. They noted…
Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Change
International
Women are among the most affected by climate-related insecurity, and yet they’re often absent from the conversation. Experts hope that by understanding how they are…
Ethiopia/Sudan: Will Sudan-Ethiopia Border Conflict Affect GERD Talks?
International
Border tensions have escalated between Sudan and Ethiopia in the past few days, coupled with Ethiopian threats to Sudan if it does not respond to…
Ethiopia: Pregnant Women Struggle to Find Support, Stability After Displacement From Tigray Region in Ethiopia
International
GONDAR, Ethiopia – “When you think about your future, you never plan to be uprooted from the comfort of your home and find fragile safety in a…
Bangladesh: Gender Equality Can Bring Sustained Peace, Security
International
Ensuring equality between men and women both in public and private spheres can bring about sustainable peace and security, foreign diplomats and civil society members…
India: Assam: Aaranyak Installs 18-km Solar-Powered Fence in Nagrijuli to Reduce Human-Elephant Conflict
International
The premier biodiversity conservation organisation, Aaranyak has installed 18 km of solar-powered fence to facilitate human-elephant coexistence at Nagrijuli in Baksa district. Aaranyak said this…
Kenya: How Women in Aquaculture Can Contribute to Social Stability in Kenya
International
A continued question that is asked in international relations circles is how to create stability and growth in post-conflict societies. Often solutions revolve around how…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Successfully Tests Water Flow at Major Dam
International
Afghanistan on Wednesday successfully tested water flow at a major dam in southwestern Nimroz province bordering Iran after nearly six decades of the inception of…
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Mali
Country Assessments
Mali is characterised by short-term climate variability, and is vulnerable to long-term climate change due to high exposure to the adverse effects of climate change,…
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Sahel
Country Assessments
The Sahel region is highly exposed to climate change, but national and local factors mean that climate change will have differentiated impacts across the region.…
Climate Change Mitigation in Forests: Conflict, Peacebuilding, and Lessons for Climate Security - Position Paper
Briefs & Development
Climate change mitigation in forests: Conflict, peacebuilding, and lessons for climate security III There is growing awareness of the link between climate change and security.…
In Iraq, the Bitter Legacy of War Still Lies Hidden Underground
Briefs & Development
Like the neck of a giraffe, a minesweeping vehicle extends a serrated bucket forward and dips its teeth into the blighted earth. It drags the…
Dam-Induced Displacement and Resettlement and Masculinities: The Case of India and Malaysia
Briefs & Development
Dams are the biggest ‘development’ displacement agent. In this paper, we explore the gendered processes and structures of dam-induced displacement and resettlement on Indigenous communities…
At the Forefront of Climate Action: Local Approaches to Climate-Sensitive Conflict and Violence Prevention
Briefs & Development
The purpose of this mapping brief is to call attention to and provide examples of local initiatives for climate-sensitive conflict and violence prevention. Identifying existing initiatives…
Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus: "Forgotten" Variables, Alternative Securities, and Hidden Power Dimensions
Library
The literature on the security implications of climate change, and in particular on potential climate-conflict linkages, is burgeoning. Up until now, gender considerations have only…
It Matters How You ‘Do’ Gender in Peacebuilding: African Approaches and Challenges
Briefs & Development
The article draws attention to the consequences of simplistically equating gender, sex and women when doing peacebuilding. Drawing on the ambivalent nature of security architecture…
Gender Mainstreaming in Peacebuilding and Localised Human Security in the Context of the Darfur Genocide: An Africentric Rhetorical Analysis
Briefs & Development
The argument established in this article is that existing domestic and inter-national legal instruments have given a false sense in terms of women inclusion in…
The Climate and Security Advisory Group’s Climate and Security Fellowship Program: Climate Security Risk Briefers
Briefs & Development
These are unprecedented times. The world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, while democracies and economies around the globe are tested. Through it all, climate…
Ecological Threat Report 2021: Understanding Ecological Threats, Resilience, and Peace
Briefs & Development
This is the second edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR), which analyses 178 independent states and territories. Produced by the Institute for Economics and…
Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus: “Forgotten” Variables, Alternative Securities, and Hidden Power Dimensions
Briefs & Development
The literature on the security implications of climate change, and in particular on potential climate-conflict linkages, is burgeoning. Up until now, gender considerations have only…
Report of the Secretary-General on Women and Peace and Security (S/2021/827)
Library
1. The present report is prepared pursuant to the presidential statement dated 26 October 2010 (S/PRST/2010/22), in which the Security Council requested annual reports on…
Let´s Talk about Mali: The Impacts of Climate Change on Insecurity and Gender Inequality [Audio]
Library
In this episode, we discuss climate fragility risks in Mali with Chitra Nagarajan, author of the climate fragility risk brief on Mali and member of…
Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene
Briefs & Development
In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts…
Voices in the Background: Environmental Degradation and Climate Change as Driving Forces of Violence Against Indigenous Women
Briefs & Development
Adopted on the fifteenth anniversary of resolution 1325, Security Council resolution 2242 has recognized for the first time the substantial link between climate change and…
Grass-Roots Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Mosintuwu Women’s School in Poso District, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Library
Many works of conflict resolution and peacebuilding focus on the Government or top-level leadership efforts. However, peace efforts require a comprehensive approach that is simultaneously…
The Relationship between Climate Change and Internal Migration in the Americas
Briefs & Development
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between climate change and internal migration in the Americas. A systematic literature review type of…
Climate Change and Conflict: Impact on Displacement
Briefs & Development
A little over a year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world down to its knees. No country was spared the wrath, revealing how vulnerable we are…
From "Conflict Minerals" to Peace? Reviewing Mining Reforms, Gender, and State Performance in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Library
For the last two decades, the Congolese Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has been undergoing reforms of its governing structures. A recurrent argument supporting…