Peace Agreements

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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…


Environmental Entry Points to Mediation

2026 | Center for Security Studies and ETH Zürich
Simon Mason, Sebastian Kratzer, and Edward Jackson

The environmental peacebuilding field often advances the assumption that environmental issues present good entry points for dialogue, mediation, and peace. It is, however, often that…


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)…


The Nature of Peace: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Its Implications for Environment and Livelihoods

2025 | Ecology & Society
Fariborz Zelli and Torsten Krause

This editorial introduces the special feature’s main objective: to provide latest research findings on the dynamics between environmental protection and post-conflict peacebuilding processes after internal…


Shafted: The Scramble for Critical Minerals in the DRC

2025 | Oakland Institute

This report’s analysis of previously overlooked coltan trade data shows that the US has been a central actor in laundering illegally smuggled Congolese minerals. Rwanda’s…


Strong Rationale, Weak Evidence: Why Integrating Research on Sustainability and Peacebuilding Is Needed

2025 | One Earth
Halvard Buhaug and Nina von Uexkull

Violent conflict is a major barrier to sustainability. Does this mean that peace operations promote sustainable development? Do sustainability interventions foster peace? Surprisingly, scientific evidence…


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…


Mercenary Meltdown: The Wagner Group’s Failure in Mali

2025 | The Sentry

The first Wagner Group fighters arrived in Bamako in January 2022 to assist the Malian military junta in its counterterrorism campaign. Three and a half…


River Conflicts and Hydrological Dominance

2025 | Environment and Security
Christina Boyes and Katherine Lynch-Dombroski

How do the direction of river flow and the dynamics of power within a river basin affect international conflict and cooperation? Studies of border disputes…


Power and Plunder: The Eritrean Defense Forces Intervention in Tigray

2025 | The Sentry

In November 2018, the United Nations lifted sanctions on Eritrea, including a two-way arms embargo banning both the import and export of arms, after a…


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…


The Nature of Peace: Trajectories of Environmental Peacebuilding between Dominant Narratives and Power Relations

2025 | Ecology and Society
Fariborz Zelli and Torsten Krause

Peacebuilding initiatives play an important role in the reconstruction of political, economic, and social conditions after internal armed conflicts. If these initiatives also account for…


The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Negotiating Peace Agreements

2025 | Negotiation Journal
Saleem H. Ali, Nancy E. Boyer, Gabriela Mundaca, Lynette de Silva, Shaghayegh Jabalameli, and Jahan Taganova

Drawing on the growing genre of literature on “environmental peacebuilding,” this article develops a qualitative model of how land and natural resources (including minerals, water,…


Governing after FARC: Environmental Peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia

2025 | Peasant Studies
Mckenzie F. Johnson, Luz A. Rodriguez, and Manuela Quijano Hoyos

We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by…


Twelve Research Agendas for Advancing the Peace-Sustainability Nexus

2025 | Peace and Sustainability
Dahlia Simangan, Joshua Fisher, Tobias Ide, Vally Koubi, Ayyoob Sharifi, Katherine Alfredo, John Lee Candelaria, Simon Dalby, Cullen Hendrix, Ali Kharrazi, Úrsula Oswald-Spring, and Joyashree Roy

The world's social and environmental systems are currently experiencing an increase in the number of conflicts and irreversible human-induced changes. While destabilizing, these changes offer…


Peace Agreements in a Changing Climate: Three Ways in Which Climate Change and Peace Processes Interact

2025 | Environment and Security
Tim Epple

Previous research has shown that climate change can exacerbate conflict drivers or, on the other hand, incentivise ‘environmental peacebuilding’. One might, therefore, expect to find…


Toward an International Grundnorm for Climate Change: Ensuring Sustainability Away from the Traditional Notion of Security

2025 | Sustainability
Sarkawt Jalil

Climate change has been considered a critical challenge that transcends traditional notions of security, demanding a shift in perspective toward environmental sustainability. Historically, security has…


Community Voices on Climate, Peace, and Security: Mindanao, Philippines

2024 | CGIAR
Leonardo Medina, Adam Savelli, Vanessa Souza de Matos, Setenay Kizilkaya, Mark Anthony Torres, Jayrold Arcede, Stéphanie Jaquet, Jon Hellin, Stefan Sieber, Michelle Bonatti, and Grazia Pacillo

This Community Voices on Climate, Peace and Security series report presents the results of a participatory appraisal conducted with residents of three localities across Mindanao,…


Local Climate Change Policy and Rural Development in Colombia's Post-Peace Agreements Context

2022 | International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
Fanny Howland

This study provides information on the gap between policy discourse and policy implementation of climate change (CC) management and peace governance. Following international commitments, the…


Public Preferences of Environmental Peacebuilding: The Case of Forest Conservation Projects in Colombia

2024 | Environment and Security
Dominique Schmid and Martijn C. Vlaskamp

To date, no studies have examined the nationwide support for environmental peacebuilding projects in post-conflict countries, that is, projects that seek to use the management…


Governing after FARC: Environmental Peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia

2024 | Journal of Peasant Studies
McKenzie F. Johnson, Luz A. Rodríguez, and Manuela Quijano Hoyos

The authors examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized…


Indigenous Rituals, Panacea for Peace Building, Conflict Management and National Development in Africa

2024 | Indigenous People - Traditional Practices and Modern Development
Ude Bassey Obeten

Africa continent has a long and complex history and a sociocultural ecosystem imbued with ritual practices that make it particularistic and distinct from the rest…


Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel

2024 | Global Environmental Politics
Rina Kedem, Eran Feitelson, Suleiman Halasah, and Yael Teff-Seker

Mismatches between natural systems and political boundaries often hamper environmental management and conservation efforts. As the number of transboundary environmental cooperation (TEC) initiatives increases, it…


Post-Conflict Restitution of Customary Land: Guidelines and Trajectories of Change

2023 | World Development
Sandra F. Joireman and Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo

Since the 1990s a body of soft international law and public policy has developed around property restitution after conflict. The Pinheiro Principles and the Voluntary…


Decolonizing Peacebuilding Research in Africa through Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Experience of Igbo-Speaking Group of Niger-Delta Region, Nigeria (chapter in "Decolonizing Peace and Conflict Studies through Indigenous Research")

2022 | Springer
Ferbinand O. Ottoh

This chapter examines the decolonization of peacebuilding research in Africa through Indigenous knowledge systems using the Igbo-speaking group of the Niger-Delta region, Nigeria as a…


The Role of Environmental Professionals in Post-Conflict Transboundary Cooperation: The Cases of Israel and Jordan

2024 | Environmental Science & Policy
Rina Kedem, Suleiman Halasah, Eran Feitelson, and Tobias Ide

Given the environmental challenges many post-conflict societies face, researchers and policy-makers express growing interest in environmental cooperation and management in the aftermath of political agreements.…


The Global-Capitalist Elephant in the Room: How Resilient Peacebuilding Hinders Substantive Transformation and Undermines Long-Term Peace Prospects

2023 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Paulina Budny, and Roland Kostić

This article reviews critical responses to recent academic debates on resilience and peacebuilding, with a focus on approaches that question the underlying logics of resilient…


‘Water Wars’: Strategic Implications of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

2023 | Conflict, Security, and Development
Ron Matthews and Vlado Vivoda

The construction of Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam is a fait accompli. By 2022, around 90 per cent of its construction had been completed, but only two…


Ukraine, the Environment and Negotiating Peace

2023 | Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Drew Marcantonio

Since the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian civil society has spontaneously and courageously organized to counter the military occupation through hundreds…


Four Climate Frontiers: How Mediators Can Make Peace and Help Protect the Planet

2023 | Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Sebastian Kratzer

For the peace mediation sector, four “frontiers” lie ahead if we hope to help prevent the worst outcomes of climate change and environmental degradation. This…