Events

Environmental Peacebuilding Working Group Meeting

May 20, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Arlington, VA

The next meeting of the Environmental Peacebuilding Working Group will be held on May 20, 2019, from 3:00 to 5:00pm ET. The meeting will be…

3rd Liberian Mining, Energy & Petroleum Conference & Exhibition

May 15, 2019 - May 16, 2019 | Ministry of Mines and Energy of the Republic of Liberia
Monrovia, Liberia

Launched to help boost Liberia’s rich mining, energy and petroleum industries, the Liberian International Mining, Energy & Petroleum Conference & Exhibition (LIMEP) is back for…

Water as a Tool for Resilience in Times of Crisis

May 14, 2019 | Wilson Center
Washington, DC

About 90 percent of USAID’s water priority countries are conflict-affected or fragile. Last year, over 60 million people around the world were affected by more…

Webinar: Science Diplomacy and Environmental Peacebuilding in Oceans Governance

May 9, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

This is the third of our three-part webinar series concerning science diplomacy and environmental peacebuilding. In this session, we will focus on this topic in…

Science Diplomacy and Environmental Peacebuilding: Prospects and Challenges in the Polar Regions (Second Webinar in a Series on Science Diplomacy and Environmental Peacebuilding)

May 3, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
online

The role of science in environmental diplomacy, whether it is in terms of fostering research collaborations between countries or communities, or in terms of its…

Webinar from the USAID Soybean Innovation Lab and Partners: Gender & Land Matter in Rural Ghana and the World

May 2, 2019 | USAID's Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research
GoToWebinar US

The USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research (Soybean Innovation Lab, SIL) is hosting a webinar on Thursday, May 2, at 10 a.m. CDT…

Climate Change Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific: Is Gender Relevant?

Apr 30, 2019 | ANU Climate Change Institute & ANU Gender Institute
Australia

Is gender a consideration for your program, project or research? Now is the time to reflect on this.

Women are often portrayed as more vulnerable to…

Fundamentals of Conservation Conflict Transformation

Apr 29, 2019 - May 3, 2019 | Center for Conservation Peacebuilding
Estes Park, Colorado

The Center for Conservation Peacebuilding offers workshops designed to build the capacity of individuals and teams to collaboratively engage in the theory, principles, and practice…

Beyond Land: Gender Equality in Restoration

Apr 29, 2019 | Global Landscapes Forum
Online

As climate advocates increasingly call for nature as the key to healing climate and biodiversity crises, the spotlight on restoration is growing. The recent announcement…

Emerging Frontiers of Extractive Industry Transparency: Procurement and Sub-Contracting

Apr 24, 2019 | Mining Shared Value
Washington, DC

Extractive industry sites spend hundreds of millions each year on of goods and services – but how much is staying in host countries? What corruptions…

Leading Practices in Natural Resource Governance Workshop

Apr 24, 2019 - Apr 25, 2019 | Canadian International Resources and Development Institute
Vancouver, Canada

The Canadian International Resources and Development Institute (CIRDI) is pleased to invite you to our Leading Practices in Natural Resource Governance Workshop. The workshop will feature participants from…

How Much Land Does a Women Need? Women, Land Rights, and Rural Development

Apr 18, 2019 | Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
Boston, MA, USA

For more information and to register, please visit https://genderandsecurity.org/projects-resources/consortium-lectures/how-much-land-does-woman-need-women-land-rights-and-rural. 

Where: University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, USA

When: 18 April 2019

Organizers: Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, University of Massachusetts…

Webinar: Gender Equality in Agriculture: Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Women's Empowerment

Apr 17, 2019 | International Institute For Sustainable Development
Online

Gender equality in agriculture remains a challenge. Unequal power structures in rural households mean women often have difficulty accessing food for themselves, even though they…

Searching for the Environmental Smoking Gun of Gulf War Illness

Apr 15, 2019 | University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, United Kingdom

A talk by Professor Randall Parrish, Professor of Isotope Geology, University of Portsmouth

Gulf War Illness affects hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians involved in…

Science Diplomacy and Environmental Peacebuilding: Prospects and Challenges in the Mediterranean (First Webinar in a Series on Science Diplomacy)

Apr 15, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
online

The role of science in environmental diplomacy, whether it is in terms of fostering research collaborations between countries or communities, or in terms of its…

Empowering Women By Balancing The Law

Apr 10, 2019 | The World Bank
Washington, DC

Empowering Women by Balancing the Law is an initiative that seeks to provide analytical and technical know-how to pilot countries in assessing and reforming laws…

Ecology Meets Geopolitics: Water Security in Himalayan Asia

Apr 4, 2019 | Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the US Water Partnership
Washington, D.C.

Please join us on Thursday, April 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. for a discussion on water security challenges in Asia and their implications…

Environmental Peacebuilding - New Research Trajectories for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management

Mar 28, 2019 | International Studies Association
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The roundtable on "Environmental Peacebuilding - New Research Trajectories for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management" will be a part of the International Studies Association conference in…

Afghanistan: Renewable Energy, Economic Development, and Security

Mar 28, 2019 | Johns Hopkins University
Washington, DC

The Energy and Environmental Programs Speaker Series is a lecture series of the Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) and Energy Policy and Climate (EPC) programs…

ISA Annual Convention 2019

Mar 27, 2019 - Mar 28, 2019 | International Studies Association
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Join us for the International Studies Association's 60th Annual Convention in Toronto, Canada from March 26-30, 2019. Two panels on environmental peacebuilding are highlighted below:

WA51:…

Governing Minerals for Renewable Energy

Mar 26, 2019 | Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Toronto, Canada

Renewable energy is the best means of bringing global emissions within the required 1.5 degrees limit. While this is an imperative technical response to climate…

Panel Discussion on “Water in Armed Conflicts”

Mar 22, 2019 | Geneva Water Hub, International Peace Institute, and UNICEF
New York, NY

Armed conflicts affect access to safe water in several ways: destruction of and damage to water facilities, attacks against power plants providing energy to water…

Women Leading Nonviolent Movements

Mar 22, 2019 | United States Institute of Peace
Washington, D.C.

Women have often been the invisible actors in history—sidelined from formal political and social spaces—but creating their own spaces for change through engaging in nonviolent…

Diversity and Gender Matters: Doing More to Empower Women in the Peacebuilding Field

Mar 21, 2019 | Alliance for Peacebuilding
Washington, D.C.

Join the Alliance for Peacebuilding on Thursday, March 21st, from 9:00am to 10:45am at the Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E St NW, Washington,…

Seminar on the Geneva List of Principles on the Protection of Water Infrastructure in Relation to Armed Conflicts

Mar 20, 2019 | Geneva Water Hub, Environmental Law Institute, and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Washington, D.C.

Following the recommendations of the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace, the Geneva Water Hub, a centre of the University of the Geneva, acting as…

Lunch Discussion: "The Protection of Water Infrastructure in Relation to Armed Conflicts"

Mar 18, 2019 | World Bank
Washington, DC and online

In its 2017 report “A Matter of Survival”, the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace, co-convened by fifteen countries, has underlined the dire consequences…

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital

Mar 14, 2019 - Mar 24, 2019 | DCEFF and National Geographic
Washington, DC

The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) is the world’s premier showcase of environmentally themed films. Since 1993 its mission has been to…

Linking Feminist Peace, Sustainable Development, and Postwar Infrastructure Reconstruction

Mar 12, 2019 | Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
New York, NY

This interactive panel discussion will bring together women civil society leaders and scholars to show why women, peace and securty (WPS) advocates, if they are…

Advanced Application of Conservation Conflict Transformation

Mar 11, 2019 - Mar 15, 2019 | Center for Conservation Peacebuilding
Washington, DC

The Center for Conservation Peacebuilding offers workshops designed to build the capacity of individuals and teams to collaboratively engage in the theory, principles, and practice…

Launch of the Network of African Women Environmentalists

Mar 8, 2019 | UN Environment
Nairobi, Kenya

The Network of African Women Environmentalists (NAWE) will be launched on International Women's Day, by Dr. Juliette Biao, Director, Africa Office, UN Environment on the…