Conflict Prevention, Mediation, & Resolution
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Demographic Resilience: Linking Population Dynamics, the Environment, and Security
Briefs & Development
Demographic trends are important among the range of factors that motivate or deter political instability. Over the past several decades, countries with very young age…
Weather Shocks and Violence against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
Library
This study uses variation in rainfall to study how extreme shocks to income affect intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that women experiencing…
Can Women Make the World More Peaceful?
International
Do women hold the key to a peaceful society? Much is known about the victimisation of women through rape, trafficking, and early marriages, but much…
Conflict Minerals: How to Make the Most of Africa’s Business Boom
International
Following the close of this week's unprecedented U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the business community's eyes are trained on Africa. Perhaps not since colonization has the West…
Model of Environmental Communication with Gender Perspective in Resolving Environmental Conflict in Urban Area
Briefs & Development
Conflicts over natural resources in urban areas have led to the reduction in the quality and capacity of the environment which transformed into an environmental…
Conflict, Climate and Environment
Briefs & Development
This Topic Guide will support Department for International Development (DFID) advisers in the Conflict, Security and Justice Cadres as well as the Humanitarian, Climate and…
The Role of Women in Water Management and Conflict Resolution in Marsabit, Kenya
Briefs & Development
We employed qualitative methods to explore how conflict over water collection and use impacts women, and the role that women play in water management and…
UN Security Council Resolution 2122 (2013)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960…
UN Security Council Resolution 2106 (2013)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1265 (1999), 1296 (2000), 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005), 1674…
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: General Recommendation No. 30 on Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post-conflict Situations
Briefs & Development
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women decided at its forty-seventh session, in 2010, pursuant to article 21 of the Convention on the…
Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential
Briefs & Development
This report focuses on the relationship between women and natural resources in conflict-affected settings, and discusses how the management of natural resources can be used…
Mujeres y Recursos Naturales: Liberando el Potencial Para la Consolidacion de la Paz
Library
Las diversas experiencias de las mujeres en tiempos de conflicto tienen poderosas implicaciones para la consolidación de la paz. Su capacidad para recuperarse del conflicto…
Building Peace around Water, Land and Food: Policy and Practice for Preventing Conflict
Library
This paper looks at the need to take a conflict prevention approach to natural resource management, outlining relevant international law and considering useful examples of…
Water, Cooperation and Peace in the Middle East
Library
Water, Cooperation, and Peace presents a multidisciplinary study of environmental peacebuilding. The paper’s primary objective is to assess the peacebuilding significance of a cooperative Israeli-Palesti-nian…
Toolkit and Guidance for Preventing and Managing Land and Natural Resources Conflict
Briefs & Development
Geneva/Nairobi, 8 October - A new set of manuals to improve natural resource management in order to reduce the risk of conflict has been launched…
Land and Conflict: Toolkit and Guidance for Preventing and Managing Land and Natural Resource Conflict
Library
Conflict arises when two or more groups believe their interests are incompatible. Conflict is not in itself a negative phenomenon. Non-violent conflict can be an…
Water Source Conflict in Nepal: A Right to Water Perspective
Briefs & Development
The importance of the rights to water and sanitation in ensuring people’s wellbeing
and dignity is increasingly acknowledged globally. These rights are included in the
constitution under…
The Role of Gender and Caste in Climate Adaptation Strategies in Nepal: Emerging Change and Persistent Inequalities in the Far-Western Region
Briefs & Development
The present article attempts to analyze the influence of gender and cultural relations on the process of climate change adaptation by presenting a study of…
Peace, Conflict, and Development in Africa: A Reader
Briefs & Development
The Africa Programme of the UN–affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) is pleased to present Peace, Conflict, and Development in Africa: A Reader, another step in…
UN Security Council Resolution 1960 (2010)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005), 1674 (2006), 1820 (2008), 1882…
UN Security Council Resolution 1889 (2009)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005), 1674 (2006), 1820 (2008), 1882…
UN Security Council Resolution 1888 (2009)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005), 1674 (2006), 1820 (2008) and 1882 (2009) and all relevant…
UN Security Council Resolution 1820 (2008)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005) and 1674 (2006) and recalling the Statements of its president…
Incidence and Impact of Land Conflict in Uganda
Briefs & Development
While there is a large, though inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of…
Gender and Natural Resource Conflict Management in Nioro du Sahel, Mali
Briefs & Development
As important natural resource users, women are affected by and involved in natural resource (NR) conflicts, and contribute to their resolution or exacerbation. Women ’s…
Women in War and Peace: Grassroots Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
The United States Institute of Peace strives, through research, education, and training, to understand this role of nongovernmental entities in bringing about a stable peace…
India: Program Specialist, Ending Violence Against Women
Job
UN Women’s India Country Office, based in New Delhi, India, works to accelerate the advancement of gender equality and the empowerment of women through the…
What Has Happened to Gender Provisions in Peace Agreements?
Blog
The world seemed to be making slow but steady progress on the inclusion of gender sensitive provisions in peace agreements. References to women and gender had…
Day 9: Feminism and Food Sovereignty
Blog
Food sovereignty offers opportunities to advance women’s rights within the food system, but we must also work to restore gender relations within rural families and…