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Food Security: Recent Studies Support Dangerously Hungry’s Link Between Food Insecurity and Conflict
International
In April of this year, World Food Program USA launched a new report titled Dangerously Hungry: The Link Between Food Insecurity and Conflict. The report…
Climate and Gender at Center of Australian Aid Revamp in Indo-Pacific
International
SYDNEY — Australia will put climate change and gender at the heart of its international aid program in a policy revamp designed to compete with China's…
US and Pacific Islands Elevate Women’s Leadership in Climate Security in Two-day Workshop
International
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Office of Women, Peace & Security (WPS), the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), and Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and…
Iran/Kuwait: Iranian Envoy, Kuwaiti FM Discuss Disputed Oil Field
International
The credentials of newly-appointed Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Totonchi were presented to Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah al-Jaber al-Sabah on Thursday, according to…
In Central Asia, Female Leadership is Key to Climate and Drought Resilience
International
From potatoes grown in recycled sacks to “more crop per drop” fruit tree varieties, climate-smart and women-led agriculture initiatives became the center of discussions at…
Colombia: María del Campo: The Image of Colombian Cacao at the International Theobroma for Peace Congress
International
María del Campo is a farming woman who accompanies and represents the thousands of cacao-growing families throughout the country. She is an icon that promotes…
The Climate-Conflict-Urban Migration Nexus: Honduras, Jordan, and Pakistan
Briefs & Development
In Honduras, chronic droughts and severe natural disasters, including hurricanes and landslides, increasingly drive rural migrants to cities, where chronic gang violence and a lack of…
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…
Community Voices on Climate, Peace and Security: Kenya
Briefs & Development
This study conducted a participatory appraisal of climate vulnerabilities and conflict risks three communities across Kenya: 1) members of the Yiaku Indigenous Peoples in the…
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…
Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security
Briefs & Development
This Forum article reports on a meta-review of more than 19,000 published works on water security, of which less than 1 percent explicitly focus on…
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.