Data and Technologies
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Operation Epic Fury: Emerging Environmental Harm and Risks in Iran and the Region
2026
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
An updated overview of emerging environmental issues and perspectives arising from Operation Epic Fury in Iran, Israel, and the Gulf States. CEOBS has seen a…
Text Mining and Machine Learning Reveal Global Determinants of Food Insecurity
2025
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Scientific Reports
Bia Carneiro, Giuliano Resce, Nicola Caravaggio, Agapito Emanuele Santangelo, Giosue Ruscica, Giulia Tucci, Grazia Pacillo, Gary Eilerts, Peter Laderach, and Kevin Coffey
This study applies Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to investigate global historical trends in food security. Using USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems…
Fishers' Rights Matter: Mapping Small-Scale Fisheries Landing and Smoking Sites in Liberia to Assess Environmental and Legal Risks to Their Tenure Rights
2025
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Environmental Justice Foundation
Liberia’s small-scale fisheries are the backbone of coastal livelihoods, but they face mounting threats from coastal erosion, mangrove destruction, and insecure land rights. Fishing communities’…
Resource Curse in the Age of Critical Minerals: Geopolitical Forces and Market Maturity
2025
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Science Direct
Juergen Braunstein and Marina Chuchko
The global demand for critical minerals—such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements—essential to renewable energy and technology, raises concerns about a modern resurgence of…
Revisiting the Environmental Legacies of the Vietnam War
2025
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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…
Africa’s Ascent: Forging a Sovereign AI Future from Mineral Wealth and Human Capital
2025
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Special Competitive Studies Project Newsletter
Kwame Odame-Darkwah and Alex Tsado
Africa stands at the confluence of two global megatrends: the digital transformation driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the escalating demand for the critical minerals…
Data Collection in Fragile States
2025
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Nature Food
Shahriar Kibriya and Naureen Fatema
Monitoring food security in regions experiencing multiple crises remains challenging. Satellite imagery combined with artificial intelligence can now estimate food availability in the fragile state…
Understanding Conflict through Satellite Imagery
2025
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Lawfare Institute
David Mansfield
In recent years, high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial analysis have become increasingly valuable tools in documenting the effects of conflict, including the widespread destruction of…
Third Security and Development Dialogue on Environmental Crime: Advancing Multilateral and Multi-stakeholder Responses
2025
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Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
This international conference was convened in recognition of environmental crimes as threat multipliers to an increasingly fractured and vulnerable planet. They pose threats to not…
Using Strata: A Geospatial Tool for Integrated Analysis and Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]
2024
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UNEP, FAO, and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
UNEP and FAO are proud to present the latest version of Strata: a geospatial data platform that identifies and tracks where environmental, climate, and security…
A Rapid Environmental Risk Assessment of the Kakhovka Dam Breach during the Ukraine Conflict
2024
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
Bryan M. Spears, Quillon Harpham, Emma Brown, Catherine L. Barnett, Louise Barwell, Marta Roca Collell, Mark Davison, Harry Dixon, J. Alex Elliott, Angus Garbutt, Caroline Hazlewood, Barabara Hofmann, James Lanyon, Stephen Lofts, Colin MacKechnie, Sergiy
Assessing habitat and biodiversity loss in active conflict zones is a major challenge1. Independent scientific evidence on wartime impacts is essential to inform the environmental…
Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Peace
2024
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PAX and UNEP
As the connections between environmental degradation and conflict become increasingly clear, the potential of nature in peacebuilding is more significant than ever. This catalog of Nature-based…
Digital Technologies for Environmental Peacebuilding: Horizon Scanning of Opportunities & Risks
2024
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UNEP and EnPAx
Albert Martinez Sequero, Asim Zia, Carl Bruch, David Jensen, and Silja Halle, with Theresa Dearden, Benjamin Dills, Mirza Sadaqat Huda, Richard A. Matthew, Samantha Murphy, Shanna McClain, Albert Martinez Sequero, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Alejandro Martín
This report specifically delves into how digital technologies can be harnessed to manage environmental and natural resource risks that contribute to insecurity and social conflict,…
Assessing Damage to Agricultural Fields from Military Actions in Ukraine: An Integrated Approach Using Statistical Indicators and Machine Learning
2023
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International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Nataliia Kussul, Sofiia Drozd, Hanna Yailymova, Andril Shelestov, Guido Lemoine, and Klaus Deininger
The ongoing full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to widespread damage of agricultural lands, jeopardizing global food security. Timely detection of impacted fields enables…
Ukraine Conflict Environmental Briefing: Nature
2024
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Conflict and Environment Observatory and Zoï Environment Network
The scale and intensity of the conflict in Ukraine has resulted in widespread and locally severe damage to some of its most ecologically important areas,…
Artificial Intelligence for Climate Security: Possibilities and Challenges
2023
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Kyungmee Kim and Vincent Boulanin
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—largely based on machine learning—offer possibilities for addressing climate-related security risks. AI can, for example, be used for developing disaster…
Afghanistan Drought Early Warning Decision Support (AF-DEWS) Tool
2023
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International Water Management Institute
Giriraj Amarnath, Surajit Ghosh, and Niranga Alahacoon
This report summarizes the development of the Afghanistan Drought Early Warning Decision Support (AF-DEWS) Tool, a cloud-based online platform with near real-time information on drought…
Toward the Remote Monitoring of Armed Conflicts
2023
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PNAS Nexus
Valerie Sticher, Jan D. Wegner, and Birke Pfeifle
The war in Ukraine has pushed the role of satellite imagery in armed conflicts into the spotlight. For a long time, satellite images were primarily…
Knowledge Gaps in the Nexus of Climate, Peace and Security
2023
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Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping & Peacebuilding
Thor Olav Iversen and Fareeda Khalifa
There is a growing body of research on the relationship between climate change and peace and security. Research shows that the effects of climate change…
Using Machine Learning and Remote Sensing to Track Land Use/Land Cover Changes Due to Armed Conflict
2023
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Science of The Total Environment
Saeed Mhanna, Landon J.S. Halloran, François Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, and Philip Brunner
Armed conflicts have detrimental impacts on the environment, including land systems. The prevailing understanding of the relation between Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and armed conflict…
Artificial Intelligence for Climate Security: Possibilities and Challenges
2023
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SIPRI
Kyungmee Kim and Vincent Boulanin
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—largely based on machine learning—offer possibilities for addressing climate-related security risks. AI can, for example, be used for developing disaster…
Blockchain for Environmental Peacebuilding: Application in Water Management
2023
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Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance
Fariz Huseynov and Jeanene Mitchell
The purpose of this paper is to spur further exploration of blockchain technologies for environmental peacebuilding, specifically through water management. Although the environmental peacebuilding field…
Climate Change and Fragility: Improving Early Warning and Climate-Proofing Development and Conflict Interventions (chapter in "Handbook of Fragile States")
2023
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Elgar Handbooks in Political Science
Erin Sikorsky, Francesco Femia, and Brigitte Hugh
Climate change knows no political boundaries, yet political boundaries shape much of the response (or lack of response) to that change. In recent years, rapid…
Aqueduct: Using Cutting-Edge Data to Identify and Evaluate Water Risks around the World
2023
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World Resources Institute
Water risks are an urgent global challenge. Most public health crises are already driven by water, including floods, droughts and water-borne diseases. Climate change is…
War and Deforestation: Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning to Identify the War-Induced Deforestation in Syria 2010–2019
2023
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Land
Angham Daiyoub, Pere Gelabert, Sandra Saura-Mas, and Cristina Vega-Garcia
Armed conflicts and other types of violence are key drivers of human-induced landscape change. Since March 2011, Syria has been embroiled in a prolonged and…
The Power of Real-World Qualitative Assessments for Addressing Climate Security Risks
2023
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Climate Diplomacy
Hector Morales-Munoz
Qualitative research can uncover hidden drivers and connectors, reveal unintended consequences, and generate contextualised and actionable knowledge by delving into the lived experiences, perceptions, values,…
Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker
2023
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Center for Climate and Security, Council on Strategic Risks
This map is based on a dataset regularly updated by CCS staff, based on publicly available information, tracking the date, location, actors, and circumstances of…
Toxic Floods? Climate, Natural Hazards and Risks to South Sudan’s Oil Infrastructure
2023
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PAX
Wim Zwijnenburg, Roberto Jaramillo Vasquez, and Jannis Hoch
The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil fields in South Sudan has brought the country both wealth and woes. Armed conflicts and civil wars fought over…
Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection and Prediction in the Kathmandu District of Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS
2020
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Sustainability Journal
Sonam W. Wang, Belay M. Gebru, Munkhnasan Lamchin, Rijan B. Kayastha, and Woo-Kyun Lee
Understanding land use and land cover changes has become a necessity in managing and monitoring natural resources and development especially urban planning. Remote sensing and…
Indexing Climatic and Environmental Exposure of Refugee Camps with a Case Study in East Africa
2023
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Nature Scientific Reports
Michael Owen, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, and Jamon Van Den Hoek
This study presents a novel approach to systematically measure climatic and environmental exposure in refugee camps using remote sensing and geospatial data. Using a case…