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Teaching Materials: Water Diplomacy – Turning Rivers into Bridges

2026 | Stockholm International Water Institute
Martina Klimes

These teaching materials support the webinar Turning rivers into bridges, part of the WaterWise programme by Schools Beyond Regions and Borders (SBRB). They provide a…

The US-Israel War on Iran and How War and Conflict Are Destroying the Environment

2026 | GreenPeace
Mehdi Leman

From Ukraine to Sudan, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Venezuela, people are living through war, bombardment, occupation, militarisation or political violence, while the damage reaches far…

Armed Conflicts and Their Environmental Impacts: Toward a Global Legal Framework for Promoting Environmental Sustainability

2026 | Asian Journal of Water, Environment, and Pollution
Mohammad Alsalmi, Omar Alatawil Doaa Badran, Mahmoud Abdelhady, Naser Alsherman, and Ehab Alrousan

In an era marked by intensifying armed conflicts, the protection of ecosystems and natural resources has become an urgent global imperative. This study aims to…

Environmental Provisions in Formal Peace Agreements: What Does the Literature Say?

2026 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Richard Marcantonio, Gabrielle Penna, and Liam Gibson

As rates of conflict and environmental risk increase, peace agreements offer a unique occasion to reach accord on both fronts. A systematic review of peer-reviewed…

Navigating the Overlap of Climate-Induced and Conflict-Induced Displacement: Perspectives from Humanitarian Practitioners in the Philippines

2026 | npj Climate Action
Sheryn See, Aaron Opdyke, and Susan Banki

Disasters, conflict, and climate change increasingly intersect, forcing communities to flee and trapping them in cycles of displacement. Yet, humanitarian responses remain fragmented, often addressing…

Climate Security, Migration and Fragility

2026 | European Commission
Teresa Talò

This brief examines how climate change interacts with conflict, fragility and human mobility. Evidence shows that climate change rarely acts as a direct cause of…

Ecocide: Criminalising Serious Harm against the Environment

2026 | T.M.C. Asser Press
Laura Burgers, Merle Kooijman, Stavros Evdokimos Pantazopoulos, and Christophe Paulussen

This book explores the concept of ecocide and critically assesses how the criminalisation of serious harm against the environment fits within international criminal law broadly…

An Update on the Impact of International Sanctions on Myanmar’s Forest Sector: Four Years Since the Coup

2026 | Forest Trends

Since the February 2021 coup, importing countries have reported more than US$1.45 billion in the import of forest product from Myanmar. This is an increase…

Episode 756: Environmental Peacebuilding Law [Video]

2026 | Project Save the World
Metta Spencer

Carl Bruch, an environmental lawyer who founded an organization looking into the impact of war on the environment. Alex Belyakov is a consultant producing, with…

A Close Look at the OTP-ICC Policy on Environmental Damage [Video]

2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Munini Mutuku, Daniëlla Dam-de Jong, and James Gondi

Environmental damage in conflict and post conflict societies, and its subsequent impacts on both ecosystems and the peoples’ human rights, has increasingly become a point…

Climate, Peace, and Security Consultation in Yemen – Results Report 2026

2026 | European Institute of Peace
Elias Kharma, Laura Geres, Albert Martinez, Suaad Al-Salahi, and Hashim Al-Omeisy

This report presents the results of an extensive consultation that reached out to over 3,600 people in Yemen as part of the project Environmental Pathways…

Briefing on Energy, Critical Minerals, and Security

2026 | Security Council Report

This briefing aims to explore the link between energy dominance and competition for natural resources, such as critical minerals, and its implications for the maintenance…

Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability

2026 | MIT Press
Silvia Danielak

The first comprehensive account of infrastructure building in United Nations peace operations. Roads, bridges, a renewable power plant, and an electricity grid: UN peacekeepers might…

Nature Crimes: The Convergence of Criminal Ecomonomies in the Mekong Region

2026 | Forest Trends
Kevin M. Woods

The Mekong Region—particularly the tri-border “Golden Triangle” of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand—has become a hub where environmental exploitation and criminal activity converge, collectively generating billions…

"Global Environmental Challenges" in Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis

2025 | Cambridge University Press
Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson

Any discussion of ‘gender perspectives on X’ or ‘feminist approaches to Y’ must acknowledge and respond to the extreme precarity of the historical moment in…

Populism, Post-truth Politics and Disaster Risk: Challenges for Governance and Marginalised Communities

2025 | DRR Dynamics
Kevin Blanchard

This policy brief explores the intersection of populism, post-truth politics, and disaster risk governance, with a focus on their impacts on marginalised groups. Populism, characterised…

Conflicts and Trends to Watch in 2026

2026 | Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Jessica Anania, Vicka Heidt, Anna Tuohey, and Jessica M. Smith

Entering 2026, the global security landscape is defined by record-high levels of armed conflict, democratic backsliding, geopolitical fragmentation, and an accelerating climate crisis—dynamics unfolding alongside…

Ungoverned Space and Regional Spillover, Rethinking Afghanistan’s Borders

2026 | Modern Diplomacy
Sahibzada Usman

The Afghanistan crisis is generally spoken of as a crisis of the hour in terms of the Taliban, outside power intervention, or an unsuccessful election…

China, Afghanistan, and Critical Minerals: Options for US Strategic Competition Below the Threshold of War

2026 | Small Wars Journal
Sean Ryan and Adib Farhadi

Afghanistan remains relevant to the United States in the context of Great Power Competition. While China assumed a major role in Afghanistan after the US…

Towards Environmental Peacebuilding in Nepal: Understanding Violence, Addressing Conflicts, and Strengthening Governance

2026 | Centre for Social Change
Pratiksha Giri, Dipin Subedi, Prasansa Thapa, Prakash Bhattarai, and Pawan Roy

This report explores environmental peacebuilding as a strategy for converting shared environmental challenges into avenues for dialogue, cooperation, and trust among conflicting groups in Nepal.…

Agenda for Environmental Peacebuilding in Nepal

2026 | Centre for Social Change

This ‘Agenda for Environmental Peacebuilding in Nepal’ addresses a critical challenge: environmental degradation, resource-based conflicts, and climate change are threatening not only ecosystems but the…

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)…