Events


The Women, Peace, and Security Resolutions and the Politics of Gender Expertise and Feminist Knowledge in Post-Conflict Settings

Jun 18, 2020 | British International Studies Association
London, UK

Note: this event has been cancelled.

This panel investigates the meaning and practice of gender expertise in post-conflict contexts, exploring how the Women, Peace and Security…


Introduction to Conservation Conflict Transformation Interactive Webinar

Jun 18, 2020 | Center for Conservation Peacebuilding
online

In this 90-minute online session, Co-founder and Executive Director, Francine Madden of the Center for Conservation Peacebuilding (CPeace) will share an orientation to CCT. This…


Stories of Courage: Women Defending Land and Water in Canada and Brazil

Jun 18, 2020 | Kairos Canada
Online

Join KAIROS’ MERE Hub for Stories of Courage: Women Defending Land and Water in Canada and Brazil. This online teach-in is the last in a series…


Parliamentarians' Action for Gender Equality and Food Security as a Response to COVID-19

Jun 18, 2020 | FAO, IISD and OXFAM
Online

This webinar will offer a unique opportunity for a transversal discussion among parliamentarians from Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, with a view to generating…


Gender and Development in Myanmar

Jun 17, 2020 | European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes
Online

Myanmar faces enormous development challenges in the midst of a rapidly changing and uncertain political and economic landscape. The European Journal of Development Research is…


Building a Better World Post-Covid with Women at the Centre

Jun 16, 2020 | Ireland’s Leading European and International Affairs
Online

In her address to the IIEA, Ms Mlambo-Ngcuka will discuss how governments around the world can build better, fairer societies post- COVID-19 with women and…


Covid-19, CEDAW and Women’s Human Rights

Jun 16, 2020 | Women’s Human Rights Institute
Online

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the deeply entrenched inequalities that have shaped the impact of the virus.  Where there was violence, violence has increased. …


Women Owning Woodlands: Networks for Inclusive Land Stewardship

Jun 16, 2020 | SENR, Ohio State University
Online

Women are woodland stewards around the globe. They participate in stewardship on their own property, within their local community, or on shared public lands. When…


GPS Webinar: Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law: A Focus on WPS-CEDAW Synergies by Dr Catherine O'Rourke

Jun 15, 2020 | Monash University
Online

Laws and norms that focus on women’s lives in conflict have proliferated across the regimes of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights…


Water Conflict Management and Transformation Course

Jun 15, 2020 - Jun 22, 2020 | Oregon State University
online

This Water Conflict Management and Transformation course offers an opportunity for water resources professionals and graduate students to learn about current and leading-edge ways to…


Webinar with Prof. Randall Abate Presenting His Book ‘Climate Change and the Voiceless’

Jun 15, 2020 | The Faculty of Law, Lund University and Law Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association
online

The webinar will address Professor Abate’s book ‘Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources’ (Cambridge University Press 2019). This work…


COVID-19 Gendered Impacts on Livelihoods in Africa

Jun 15, 2020 | FinEquity
Online

With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, FinMark Trust i2i launched a series of telephone surveys to track the evolution of the livelihoods…


Restoring the Fabric of Nature and Humanity – Peace, Conflict, Migration and Environment (IUCN World Conservation Congress)

Jun 14, 2020 | International Union for Conservation of Nature
Marseille, France

We live in turbulent times with wildly shifting environmental parameters. How can nature be a healing and restorative force for humanity and help mitigate pressures…


Planet on the Move - Challenges and Solutions for Migration, Environmental Change and Conflict (IUCN World Conservation Congress)

Jun 13, 2020 | IUCN CEESP Theme on Environment and Peace Task Force on Environmental Change, Migration and Conflict
Marseille, France

The increase, impact and scale of the movement of people and other species resulting from extreme weather, environmental change, violent conflict, and slow onset disasters…


Conflict Zones and Indigenous Governance in World Heritage and Protected Areas Management (IUCN World Conservation Congress)

Jun 13, 2020 | Australian National University
Marseille, France

The proposed session seeks to refine IUCN guidelines to better address conflict zones and indigenous governance in World Heritage and protected areas management. The session…


Integrating Conflict Sensitivity for Sustainable Conservation (IUCN World Conservation Congress)

Jun 13, 2020 | Conservation International
Marseille, France

Climate change and environmental degradation amplify the potential for socio-political conflict and undermines conservation; this session will share practical experiences of how integrating conflict sensitivity…


International E-Dialogue: Increasing the Visibility of Women in Conflict Resolution, Negotiations and Mediation

Jun 13, 2020 | Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti New Delhi
Online

This June 13 e-dialogue will feature:

Vidya Jain, former SG APPRA and Convenor, Nonviolence Commission, IPRABernedette Muthien, Facilitator, Researcher and Poet, S. AfricaMatt Meyer, Co-Secretary General,…


Symposium, Visualizing Climate Change | Episode 1: Climate Change and the Female Gaze

Jun 12, 2020 | Archive Research Centre at the London College of Communication; University of the Arts London; VII Photo Agency
Online

At this time of crisis, it is important to acknowledge the gendered nuances of the impact of climate change, and how women are playing leading…


African Women in Films about African Colonial and Postcolonial Conflicts

Jun 11, 2020 | The Graduate Institute Geneva
Online

Cinematic representations of African women in situations of political conflict, including fictional, biographical and documentary, have become an important source of information from which many…


Climate Security for Sustaining Peace (Part III)

Jun 11, 2020 | United Nations System Staff College, UN Climate Security Mechanism, and adelphi
online

Learn about the opportunities and challenges of translating climate risk analysis into regional conflict and climate sensitive programming through examples from operations in the African…


Climate and Security: Advancing A Gender Lens

Jun 11, 2020 | The United Nations Joint Programme on Women, Natural Resources, Climate and Peace and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
online

A high-level virtual discussion on gender, climate and security.

In this critical moment of global crisis, there is an opportunity to “build back better” and create a…


Sustainability Impact Assessment: Introducing ScalA-Peacebuilding Tool for Ex-Ante Impact Assessment

Jun 11, 2020 | ZALF and the Center for Development Research (ZEF - University of Bonn)
online

Introducing sustainability impact assessment (Dr. Jana Schindler, OXFAM Germany)

ScalA-Peacebuilding tool: assessing scaling-up potential of planned agricultural interventions (Dr. Katharina Löhr, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape…


Webinar on “The Afghan Emerald Trade: Challenges and Opportunities” (Third in an Occasional Series of Discussions on Environment, Conflict, and Peace in Afghanistan)

Jun 10, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
online

This webinar will examine the burgeoning commercial trade in one of Afghanistan’s most beautiful and prized natural resources -- Panjshir Emeralds. While Afghanistan has been…


Training Course: "Humanitarian Action and the Environment"

Jun 9, 2020 - Jun 11, 2020 | Groupe URD and UNEP/ OCHA Joint Environment Unit
Plaisians, France

In partnership with UNEP / OCHA Joint Environment Unit, this training will give you the concepts, methods and tools to understand and anticipate the impacts…


Gender, Climate and Security: Presenting the Evidence

Jun 9, 2020 | UN Joint Programme on Women, Natural Resources, Climate and Peace and Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
online

This webinar is co-hosted by the UN Joint Programme on Women, Natural Resources, Climate and Peace and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security,…


AGENT Webinar: Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages - Key Issues and Strategies for Change

Jun 4, 2020 | International Union for Conservation of Nature and USAID
Online

Join IUCN, USAID, and other partners for the first in a series of webinars and presenting AGENT research and key findings on linkages related to:…


Webinar What (Afghan) Women Want? : What do Peace talks with Taliban Mean for Afghan Women

Jun 4, 2020 | Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA)
Online

Chair and Moderator

Ambassador Amar Sinha retired from the Indian Foreign Service as Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, in June…


US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution: Understanding Conflict and Planning for Successful Collaboration

Jun 3, 2020 - Jun 4, 2020 | Udall Foundation
Arlington, VA

Participants experience training that is dynamic, problem-based, and highly interactive. Each course provides opportunities to practice new ECCR skills through exercises that simulate real-life situations,…


Land Rights Implications of COVID-19

Jun 3, 2020 - Jun 24, 2020 | Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR, GIZ, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America, and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID)
online

As governments press pause on economic activities and people change their work and social behaviors to halt the spread of COVID-19, there are several hidden…


Wartime Environmental Damage before International Courts and Tribunals: Strengthening the Environmental Rule of Law

Jun 3, 2020 | Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa
Online

Remedying wartime environmental damage in the aftermath of an armed conflict is fraught with considerable difficulties. For one, causation and proof of wartime environmental damage…