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EnPAx Icon Integrating Islamic Peacemaking and Environmental Justice in Family Dispute Resolution [Video]

2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

How can culturally grounded conciliation resolve land disputes that have lasted not just decades—but generations? In this discussion, Ibrahim Hussain FCIArb, an award-winning Imam and…


Species' Habitat Change over Twenty Years in Colombia's Tropical Dry Forests

2026 | Ecological Indicators
Maria Isabel Arce-Plata, Natalia Norden, Jaime Burbano-Girón, Guy R. Larocque, M.C. Díaz, Susana Rodríguez Buriticá, Germán Corzo, and Timothée Poisot

Countries worldwide are working together under the Convention on Biological Diversity to tackle biodiversity loss. As part of this effort, the monitoring framework of the…


Ethnic Land Rights as a Faustian Bargain? On the Afro-Colombian Struggle for Alternative Livelihoods and Its Limits

2026 | Progress in Development Studies
Caroline Cornier

From the 1990s onwards, ethnic minorities in Latin America have been granted collective property rights to protect their natural livelihoods and culture from extractivism and…


Gender and Food Security: How Displacement Can Disrupt Traditional Roles in Agriculture-Dependent Communities

2025 | Migration Policy Institute
Gracsious Maviza, Joyce Takaindisa, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, and Thea Synnestvedt

When people are displaced, the structures of everyday life are disrupted. Existing gender roles and responsibilities often both become more intense and shape how individuals…


Gender and Food Security: How Displacement Can Disrupt Traditional Roles in Agriculture-Dependent Communities

2025 | The Online Journal of the Migration Policy Institute
Gracsious Maviza, Joyce Takaindisa, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, and Thea Synnestvedt

When people are displaced, the structures of everyday life are disrupted. Existing gender roles and responsibilities often both become more intense and shape how individuals…


'Still Struggling with the Commons': An Overview of Progress & Problems Securing Community Lands in Africa (Brief No. 08 of "Transforming Conservation: From Conflicts to Justice" Series)

2026 | Forest Peoples Programme
Liz Alden Wily

This Brief provides main findings from a study of all land and resource laws in force in Africa in 2025 to assess the legal status…


Integrated Assessment of Climate-Related Security Risks for Peace and Security in Blue Nile, Sudan, and Their Gender Dimensions

2026 | UNEP
Hector Morales Munoz, Lukas Rüttinger, and Yosr Khèdr

The Blue Nile State in Sudan is grappling with a severe and escalating crisis, marked by an intensifying conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)…


Brief: Gender-Responsive Action for Women's Food Security and Nutrition in Asia and the Pacific

2026 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

In 2018, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women recognized the impacts of climate change in undermining food security for women, noting that…


The Power of Gender: New Generation of REDD+ Action in the LAC Region

2025 | UNDP
UNDP Climate Promise

To help disseminate how these countries are using innovative solutions to undertake this work, the UN-REDD Programme is supporting the development of this case study…


Environmental Peacebuilding in Colombia: Leveraging Synergies between Environment, Climate, Peace and Security Policies

2025 | adelphi research
Hector Morales Munoz, Nina Schmelzer, Alina Viehoff, Benjamin Pohl, and Juanita Velez

This report analyses the peacebuilding policy approaches of the Santos, Duque, and Petro administrations in Colombia and explores environmental peacebuilding good practices at the local…


Roots of Resistance: Documenting the Global Struggles of Defenders Protecting Land and Environmental Rights

2025 | Global Witness

Selma dos Santos Dealdina Mbaye is a Quilombola activist and Political Coordinator at the Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (CONAQ), an…


Resistance to Extractivism: Pin-Prick Land Grabs and ‘Failed’ Corporate Land Deals

2025 | Third World Quarterly
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Lorenza Arango, Moges Belay, Jennifer C. Franco, Sai Sam Kham, Tsegaye Moreda, Doi Ra, Itayosara R. Herrera, Chunyu Wang, and Yunan Xu

Resistance to extractivist land grabs is diverse in character and trajectory, at least those in Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar and China. The authors argue that this…


Revisiting the Environmental Legacies of the Vietnam War

2025 | Current History
Pamela McElwee

The 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War provides an opportunity to reflect on the conflict’s enduring scars, from severe ecological damages to…


Youth! Rise for a Greener Future

2025 | Freehand Studios and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

‘Youth! Rise for a Greener Future' (Dhalinyarooy, U Kaca Mustaqbal Doog leh) explores the links between climate change, environmental degradation, displacement and conflict in Somalia.…


Cross-Border Tourism as an Agent of Environmental Peacebuilding

2025 | Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Connor Clark, Daniel G. Pilgreen, and Dallen J. Timothy

This grounded theory study examines cross-border tourism as an agent in environmental peacebuilding by fostering cooperative resource management in borderland regions. The Big Bend Rio…


Gender-Based Violence as a Barrier to Women Rights towards Socio-environmental Sustainability

2024 | Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management
A. C. Cristina De la Parra-Guerra, J. Truyol-Padilla , C. García-Alzate, and F. Fuentes Gandara

This study provides an exhaustive analysis of the intersection between gender-based violence and environmental sustainability, focusing on the Colombian experience, particularly within the context of…


More Than Connecting the Gender Dots: Exploring a Deep Relations Approach in Environmental Peacebuilding

2025 | Alternatives
Heidi Hudson

This article proposes a paradigm shift in environmental peacebuilding beyond the peaceful distribution of resources, cooperative approaches and integrative frameworks and offers a feminist-relational approach…


Mine Clearance, Peacebuilding and Development: Interactions between Sustainable Development Goals and Infrastructure in Angola

2025 | Peacebuilding
Eka Ikpe and Sarah Njeri

In this article, the authors analyse the interaction between anti-vehicle mine (AVM) clearance and longer-term peacebuilding and development in relation to agricultural, conservation, trade, and…


A Multi-Level Spatial Assessment Framework for Identifying Land Use Conflict Zones

2025 | Land Use Policy
Danyang Wang, Mingshu Wang, Wei Zheng, Yaya Song, and Xianjin Huang

Land use conflicts (LUCs) are pivotal in understanding the complex interactions between human activities and global changes. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to analyze…


Participatory Approaches to Conflict, Climate Change and Environment: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa

2025 | Arab Reform Initiative and Robert Bosch Stiftung
Sammy Kayed, Shivan Fazil, Hussam Hussein, Asma Khalifa, Abeer Butmeh, Abdalftah Hamed Ali, Sarine Karajerjian, Ahmad Al-wadaey, and Tobias Zumbraegel

The MENA countries have been confronting profound and far-reaching climate shocks. Experts widely agree that human-driven activity intensely shapes escalating climate stressors—including extreme weather events—dwindling…


The Fourth Year of the Opium Ban: An Update from Two of Afghanistan’s Major Poppy-Growing Areas

2025 | Afghanistan Analyst Network
Fabrizio Foschini and Jelena Bjelica 

The Islamic Emirate’s ban on opium cultivation has entered its fourth year and apart from the first harvest of opium poppies in spring 2022, when…


Making Peace with Nature: Contributions on Environmental Justice and Peacebuilding from Colombia [Video]

2025 | Hiroshima NERPS
Venesa Giraldo and Inge Valencia

In Colombia, the challenges of ecological degradation are deeply influenced by the dynamics of armed conflict in diverse and complex ways. Nature is a direct…


The Looming Disaster: Mass Migrations, Water Wars & Global Instability [Video]

2025 | WION

A new global report warns that over 1.2 billion people could be displaced by 2050 due to ecological disasters driven by climate change. Regions like…


Wartime Geomorphological Damage and Geodiversity Loss in Ukraine

2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory
Rob Watson and Stella Shekhunova

Since 2014, huge swathes of Ukraine’s geological heritage have been affected by fighting or militarily occupied, in many places causing irreversible damage to Ukraine’s landscapes.…


Integrating Gender and Intersectionality in Post-Harvest Loss Research Helps Reduce Negative Economic and Social Impacts

2025 | CGIAR Gender Platform
Mónica Juliana Chavarro and Manuel Moreno

Currently post-harvest losses in food systems average about 25 percent globally, reducing food availability and increasing food insecurity.Women’s participation in post-harvest processing is almost 50…


Unveiling Gender Dynamics and Disparities in the Aquaculture Value Chain: Evidence from Ogun and Delta States

2025 | Aquaculture International
Rahma Isaack Ada, Lucy G. Njogu, Kevin Okoth Ouko, Surendran Rajaratnam Lydia Adeleke, Lydia Ogunya, Elizabeth Ihiechi Akuwa, Cathy Razel Farnworth, and Bernadette Fregene

This paper offers new insights into gender norms, roles, participation, relations, and benefits derived by women and men engaged in the aquaculture sector in Ogun…


What Influences Women’s Participation in Water Governance? Learning from Polder Zones of Bangladesh

2025 | Gender, Technology and Development
Niyati Singarajua, Mou Rani Sarker, Rima Akter, Mohanambrota Das, Mary Ann Batas, Manoranjan K. Mondalb, Ranjitha Puskura, and Sudhir Yadav

Coastal regions of Bangladesh face severe climate-related water challenges, with disproportionate impacts on women due to entrenched gender inequalities in access to resources, mobility, and…


How to Do Note: Designing Gender Transformative Approaches in the Context of Women’s Land and Resource Rights

2025 | ReliefWeb
International Fund for Agricultural Development

Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) aim to challenge and change the underlying social norms, power dynamics,and systemic barriers perpetuating inequality between women and men. Unlike mainstream…


Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling Gender Equality with Tradition in Northern Uganda

2025 | Oxfam
Alexandra Foote

The Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda faces a tension in its post-conflict period: reconciling local peacebuilding approaches with national and international standards of gender equality.…


Conflict in a Warming World: How Climate Shocks Impact Rebel Demands and Peace Agreement Outcomes

2025 | PeaceRep, University of Edinburgh, and University of St Andrews
Elisa D’Amico

As climate change becomes more severe and its effects more frequently observed, its impact on global conflict is increasingly important. Climate shocks, acting as threat…