Conflict Prevention, Mediation, & Resolution
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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…
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…