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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…
A Changing Climate for Peace: Navigating Conflict in the Climate Crisis
Briefs & Development
The global climate crisis, and how humans respond to it, is changing and amplifying the dynamics of current violent conflicts and is contributing to new…
Gender, Cultural Identity, Conflict and Climate Change
Briefs & Development
Gender and social inequality, the climate crisis and conflict are three of the biggest challenges of our time. But despite clear connections, there is a…
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…
A Global Analysis of Violence Against Women Defenders in Environmental Conflicts
Library
Women environmental defenders face retaliation for mobilizing against extractive and polluting projects, which perpetrate violence against Indigenous, minority, poor and rural communities.
Politics of the Olive Branch: Environmental Peacebuilding and the Nexus of Natural Resources, Violent Conflict, and Peace Nexus of Natural Resources, Violent Conflict, and Peace
Briefs & Development
At the intersection of the natural environment, conflict, and peace, the study and practice of environmental peacebuilding rests on the recognition that thoughtful management and…
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…
An In-Depth Analysis of Climate Change as a Driver of Natural Resource Conflict: A Study in Sambang—The Gambia
Briefs & Development
Climate change is one of the most underreported triggers of conflict. The menace did not only cause crop failures and a decline in agricultural productivity…
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…
Center Stage or Behind the Scenes?: Measuring and Supporting Women’s Contributions to Peace and Conflict in Central Mali
Library
The Women, Gender, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda has been a fixture in peace and conflict discussions with the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution…
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…
Sampling Bias in Environmental Peacebuilding Research
Briefs & Development
Sampling bias poses enormous challenges to research as it can undermine the validity of results, cause significant knowledge gaps, result in research that is driven…
South Sudan: As Cattle Migration Season Approaches, Farmers and Herders from Neighbouring States Meet at Joint UNMISS, UNDP Forum
International
Every year between January and April, cattle herders from Tonj and Gogrial areas of Warrap, South Sudan move their animals to greener pastures near Wau,…
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…
Yemen: Women Must Lead the Way Out Yemen’s Climate and Conflict Crises
International
A new report surveys the work that women-led organizations on the ground are doing to promote peace through climate awareness.
Conflict Minerals: Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
International
Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law this summer, focused on the boost it should give to the sales of…
Fiji: United States Hosts First-Ever Clean Energy Workshop and Women in Clean Energy Conference for the Pacific Islands
International
Suva, Fiji – In collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the United States is hosting the first-ever Clean Energy Workshop and Pacific…
Gambia: ‘Mainstreaming Gender in Climate Change Mitigation is Our Priority’
International
US: ‘I Feel Angry and Incredibly Motivated’: US Abortion Providers Consider Options for Fighting Back
International
Doctors around the country are anticipating the struggles of patients and providers after the likely fall of Roe v Wade: ‘We’ve been planning for it’.
Afghanistan: Nearly 400 Jawzjan Women Self-Reliant in Mushroom Farming
International
A number of women in northern Jawzjan province, who have become self-reliant in cultivation of mushrooms, have called on the government to train them.
#BringBackOurGirls: Ecofeminism, Climate, and Conflict
Blog
On the night of April 14, 2014, a group of militants attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria. They kidnapped 276 female students,…
Sudan/South Sudan/Abyei: Official Says 27 Killed in Attack in Disputed Abyei Region
International
A local official says at least 27 people were killed and four others wounded in an attack in the Abyei region that’s disputed between South…
South Korea: South Korea’s Poisonous Gender Politics a Test for Next President
International
The identity of South Korea’s next leader will be determined this week by the economy, housing prices and incomes, but the road to the presidential…
Realities Beyond Reporting: Women Environmental Defenders in South Africa
Briefs & Development
Women environmental defenders continue to face marginalization despite their growing significance in ecological conflicts. The media’s role in empowering or further rendering them invisible is…
Gender-Based Environmental Violence in Colombia: Problematising Dominant Notions of Gender-Based Violence During Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement is innovative in many ways. Remarkably, the agreement places significant emphasis on gender as a guiding principle. Gender-related measures are at…
The UN Security Council and Climate Change: Tracking the Agenda after the 2021 Veto
Briefs & Development
On 13 December 2021, the Security Council voted on a draft resolution on the security implications of climate change, proposed by Ireland and Niger. The…
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Somalia
Country Assessments
Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in over four decades. More frequent and intense floods and droughts fuel competition over natural resources, exacerbating community tensions…