Conflict Prevention, Mediation, & Resolution
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Climate Violence = Extreme Climate Conditions x Social Realities: Critical Focus on Women and Girls in Africa
Briefs & Development
Climate Change and violence are threats to the livelihood and economic sustainability of women and girls in Africa. Despite the current efforts to address the…
Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Enviroment of Peace (Part 2)
Briefs & Development
SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative focuses on managing the risks that are created by two interwoven crises: the darkening security horizon and the immense pressures…
Climate Change, Conflict and Internal Displacement in Afghanistan: 'We Are Struggling to Survive'
Briefs & Development
Afghanistan faces one of the world’s most complex crises. Recurring cycles of conflict, violence and natural hazard-related disasters – often exacerbated by climate change –…
Climate Change and Conflict in the Horn of Africa: A Gendered Perspective
Briefs & Development
Despite much research on climate-conflict linkages, little attention has been paid to the conflict-climate-gender triple nexus. Threats from conflict and climate change, as well as…
Iraq's Dying Garden of Eden [Video]
Multimedia
In Iraq, climate change has transformed the once mythical mesopotamian marshes into deserts. It's not only temperatures that exceed 125°F and record low rainfall, but…
Coping with the Risks of Conflict, Climate and Internal Displacement in Northern Mozambique: ‘We Can’t Just Sit Here with Our Arms Crossed’
Briefs & Development
Displacement brings trauma and suffering, as well as destabilising changes to people’s physical surroundings, social networks, livelihood opportunities and local governance structures (Turner, 2010). These…
Defueling Conflict: Environment and Natural Resource Management as a Pathway to Peace
Briefs & Development
Natural resources management can be a powerful driver of fragility and conflict or a critical tool for peacebuilding. Protracted, cross-border, and compounded transnational challenges such as…
"If I Leave… I Cannot Breathe": Climate Change and Civilian Protection in Iraq
Briefs & Development
Climate change is set to cause unpredictable weather patterns, including droughts and flooding, desertification of once arable lands, and increased water shortages. Over the next…
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
Briefs & Development
Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…
Strengthening Women's Resilience and Leadership as a Path to Peace in Regions Plagued by Armed Groups - Security Council, 9158th meeting
Library
Many of the challenges the world faces today, from proliferating conflicts to worsening assaults on human rights, are connected to the trampling of women’s rights…
The Implications of Climate Change for Mediation and Peace Processes
Briefs & Development
This Practice Note identifies practical suggestions for addressing the effects of climate change in mediation processes, including by leveraging climate policy frameworks and climate finance…
Gender, Climate, and Security in Yemen: The Linkages and Ways Forward
Library
This report presents a summary of discussions with WROs regarding peace processes, gendered climate advocacy in Yemen and the linkages of the climate/security/gender nexus in…
Risking the Future: Climate Change, Environmental Destruction, and Conflict in Yemen
Briefs & Development
CIVIC’s research demonstrates that climate change and environmental degradation must be addressed immediately to promote stability and prevent the outbreak of further conflicts over access…
Water and Conflict in the Inner Niger Delta: A Governance Challenge
Briefs & Development
Conflicts in the Sahel region are mounting. The Inner Niger Delta, located in the Sahelian zone of central Mali at the crossroads between lusher south Mali…
Regional Cooperation for Climate Security: A Look into the Horn of Africa [Audio]
Multimedia
In this episode, we speak with Ayan Mahamoud, Senior Coordinator of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional economic community with eight member states…
Environmental Degradation and Genocide
Briefs & Development
In January 2021, the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Genocide Studies and Prevention journal hosted three panels on Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass…
The Climate-Security Nexus in the IPCC Report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Briefs & Development
This document gathers quotations on the links between climate change and conflict in the IPCC Working Group II report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.…
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Ethiopia
Country Assessments
Ethiopia is currently experiencing one of its most severe droughts in decades following four consecutive failed rainy seasons. The country has a high dependency on…
2022.08 Gender and Peacekeeping-Intelligence (Guidelines)
Library
Following UN Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security, and the Peacekeeping-Intelligence (PKI) Policy, this document provides guidance on the considerations required for integrating…
The Gender-Climate-Security Nexus: Conceptual Framework, CGIAR Portofolio Review, and Recommendations Towards an Agenda for One CGIAR
Library
This position paper provides a conceptual framework for the gender-climate-security-nexus, a CGIAR portfolio review of work related to the nexus, and recommendations towards an agenda…
Indigenous and Rural Women's Voices: Recommendations to Address Climate Security Risks in Colombia
Briefs & Development
From an ecofeminist and human security perspective, this study aims to contribute to filling this existing gap by developing actionable recommendations that can be replicated…
Women Speak: The Lived Nexus Between Climate, Gender and Security
Briefs & Development
A growing body of research recognises the gendered impacts of climate change, and how these are impacted by armed conflict. Women often bear the brunt…
Climate Change and Conflict: First-Hand Tips on How to Tell Stories with Impact [Video]
Library
In this session, IJNet's guest will look at how the impacts of climate change can contribute to conflict, and the specific factors that drive conflict.…
Climate, Peace, and Security Fact Sheet: Iraq
Briefs & Development
Iraq is highly vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. The country’s vulnerability is shaped by its physical exposure, a strong natural resource dependency and low adaptive…
Climate Change and Violent Conflict in West Africa: Assessing the Evidence
Library
West Africa is widely cited as a hotspot of climate change and insecurity. This SIPRI Insights uses a systematic literature review of academic research to…
Putting Gender at the Heart of Climate Security
Event
Gender-sensitive and gender-inclusive peace initiatives are essential in securing sustainable and durable peace, and the gender dimension of the climate security nexus overlaps with this. This initiative endeavors to…
Engaging Men for Gender Equality
Event
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in research and public discourse about how various conceptualizations of masculinity shape men's lives and about…
Rethinking Peace Education in a Time of Endless Wars
Event
This event is part of the Gender, Peace, Education and International Law Symposium held under the ERC project ‘A Gendered International Law of Peace’.
What does ‘peace’ mean…
Let's Talk About Sexual Violence in the Climate Crisis
Event
We know that disasters, conflict and emergencies increase the risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) globally. If we add climate change to the equation…
Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Land-Filling on Disputed Reef in Spratlys, Imagery Shows
International
Vietnam appears to be doing new construction and land-filling on a remote reef it occupies in the disputed South China Sea, commercial satellite imagery shows.…