Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Middle East & North Africa

There are 763 resources related to Middle East & North Africa.

Oil and Gas Rents and Civilian Violence in the Middle East and North Africa, 1990-2004: A Resource Curse, or Rentier Peace?

2018 | Social Sciences
Matthew Costello

Acts of civilian violence have long plagued parts of the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region. Extant research debates whether countries that rely on natural resource…

Climate Change and Violent Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

2023 | International Studies Review
Kyungmee Kim and Tània Ferré Garcia

In this analytic essay, the authors conduct a systematic review of scholarly literature published during the period 1989–2022 and explore the climate-conflict pathways in the…

Pathways to Instability: How Decreasing Oil Prices Impact Political Stability in Petrostates - Lessons From the 1980s Oil Glut

2025 | Energy Research & Social Science
Martijn C. Vlaskamp

Existing research has shown a correlation between lower oil prices and political instability in oil-rich countries. This paper examines the conditions under which declining oil…

A Confluence of Crises: On Water, Climate, and Security in the Middle East and North Africa

2019 | Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute
Johan Schaar

The Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) faces simultaneous crises of security, water scarcity and climate change. They are interlinked— the water crisis is…

The Renewable Energy Transition and Political Stability in the MENA Region

2025 | Notes internacionals CIDOB
Martijn Vlaskamp

The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects global oil demand to start a slow decline over the next decade, driven by rising renewable energy use and…

MENA Climate Week 2022: Tackling Climate Change in MENA by Improving Regional Cooperation

2022 | Brussels International Center
Clémentine Lienard

For the first time in history, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold a regional climate week in the Middle East…

How Water Strategizing Is Remaking the Middle East

2022 | Wilson Center
Peter Schwartzstein

MENA’s best hope may lie in increasing transnational cooperation on water to avoid conflict. Some deals have already taken place, but the region faces a…

From Bullets to Boreholes: A Disaggregated Analysis of Domestic Water Cooperation in Drought-Prone Regions

2020 | Global Environmental Change
Stefan Döring

Does water shortage incentivize cooperation? Case studies suggests that water scarcity can rarely, if at all, explain violence, instead such shortages rather facilitate cooperative actions…

Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D

Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…

A New Climate For Peace: How Europe Can Promote Environmental Cooperation between Gulf Arab States and Iran – Analysis

2022 | Eurasia Review
Cinzia Bianco

The Middle East is one of the regions of the world most exposed to climate change and desertification. The urgent challenges it faces include air…

Pathways to Water Conflict during Drought in the MENA Region

2020 | Journal of Peace Research
Tobias Ide, Miguel Rodriguez Lopez, Christiane Fröhlich, and Jürgen Scheffran

As hydro-meteorological hazards are predicted to become more frequent and intense in the future, scholars and policymakers are increasingly concerned about their security implications, especially…

Women and Land in the Muslim World

2018 | UN-HABITAT
Ombretta Tempra, Siraj Sait, and Rafic Khouri

Access to land is a key element that allows women and men to fully play their role in building peaceful, stable and prosperous societies and…

Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East: The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization

2016 | Rowman & Littlefield
Ashok Swain and Anders S. Jägerskog

The Middle East, particularly its Mashriq region (the region bounded by Iran in the east, Turkey in the north, the Mediterranean in the West, Saudi…

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…

Decolonising Water Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation: From Security-Peace to Equity-Identity

2023 | Water Policy
Mohsen Nagheeby and Jaime Amezaga

Water diplomacy and conflict transformation are dominated by an interest-based paradigm, where attention is given solely to achieving security and peace. The authors intend to…

Natural Resource Rents, Political Regimes and Terrorism in Africa

2020 | International Economics
Kazeem Ajide, Juliet Adenuga, and Ibrahim Raheem

The study adds to the stock of existing literature on the supposed crises-inducing role of natural resource rents, by specifically linking same to political regime…

Water-Demand Management in the Arab Gulf States: Implications for Political Stability

2017 | Anthem Press
Hussein A. Amery

The Arabian Peninsula is one region where the terrain, climate and available natural resources have all played an important role in shaping human– environment relations,…

The Thirst for Power: Overcoming the Politics of Water in the Middle East

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Natasha Hall, Robin Savage, Hassan Janabi, Neda Zawahri, and Ciarán Ó Cuinn

The Middle East has battled water insecurity for centuries, but today, the region is on a razor’s edge. Climate change and overuse have threatened water…

Theories of International Relations and the Hydropolitical Cycle: The Hydro-Trap and the Anarchic Nature of Water Conflict

2024 | Springer Water
Sameh W.H. Al-Muqdadi

Transboundary water challenges have prompted by many scholars to investigate the relationship between water conflict/cooperation and International Relations theories. To connect theory with practice, this…

Environmental Warfare Tactics in Irregular Conflict

2023 | Perspectives on Politics
Anna Feuer

This article considers how, and under what conditions, actors in irregular conflicts weaponize nature. When do insurgents and counterinsurgents pursue environmental degradation—ranging from limited and…

Climate Change Vulnerability, Water Resources and Social Implications in North Africa

2020 | Regional Environmental Change
Janpeter Schilling, Elke Hertig, Yves Tramblay, and Jürgen Scheffran

North Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones.…

Turbulent Waters: Pursuing Water Security in Fragile Contexts

2017 | World Bank Group
Claudia W. Sadoff, Edoardo Borgomeo, and Dominick de Waal

Water insecurity—ranging from chronic water scarcity to lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation services, to hydrological uncertainty and extremes (floods and droughts)—can…

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…

EcoPeace Middle East Desk Study of the Geo-political, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility of a Middle East - Europe Renewable Energy Corridor

2025 | Qamar Energy and EcoPeace Middle East

Clean energy is a crucial opportunity to foster sustainable development, economic reconstruction, and peace and reconciliation, between Israel, Palestine and the neighbouring countries of Jordan,…

Environmental Cooperation between Israel and Its Neighbors [Video]

2023 | University of California, Los Angeles
Alon Tal and Dov Waxman

The Middle East is considered a “climate hot spot," which is already showing extreme weather conditions and ecological damage, but this difficult reality also offers…

Ecological Threat Report 2022: Analysing Ecological Threats, Resilience & Peace

2022 | Institute for Economics and Peace

Each year, the ETR analyses ecological threats to assess which countries are most at risk from conflict, civil unrest and displacement caused by ecological degradation,…

A Social-Ecological Systems Perspective on the Impacts of Armed Conflict on Water Resources Management: Case Studies from the Middle East

2022 | Geoforum
Juliane Schillinger, Gül Özerol, and Michiel Heldeweg

Armed conflicts disrupt social, environmental and economic processes. This includes water resources management and the provision of water services, with numerous implications for human security…