Peace and Security Operations

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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…


Women, Peace and Security and Technology Futures: What World Are We Building?

2025 | Our Secure Future
Sahana Dharmapuri and Jolynn Shoemaker

Technology, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and future innovations, is reshaping the world, with profound effects on peace and security. The preoccupation in policymaking on short-term,…


25 Years of Women, Peace and Security – What Has Been Achieved?

2025 | Climate Diplomacy
Berlin Climate and Security Conference

To mark the anniversary of the landmark Women, Peace and Security agenda (UNSC resolution 1325), this high-level spotlight session explored normative and policy advances made…


Global Women, Peace and Security Initiative: Phase I Implementation Report - Chad, Mongolia and Ukraine

2025 | UNDP
UNDP

Phase I Implementation Report (2024-2025) Chad, Mongolia and Ukraine

In 2024–2025, in partnership with the Government of France, UNDP established and implemented Phase I of the…


Environmental Peacebuilding. Prospects, Social and Gender Aspects

2025 | Trends in Ecological and Indoor Environmental Engineering
Marina Chichua

Background:
The peace-building process is an essential tactic for addressing the social, political, and economic issues that arise during and following conflicts. These approaches also address…


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

2025 | Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
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…


Climate, Peace and Security Thematic Fact Sheet: Women, Peace and Security

2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Ingvild Brodtkorb, Barbara Magalhães Teixeira , Gretchen Baldwin, Kheira Tarif, Katongo Seyuba, Thor Olav Iversen, Minoo Koefoed, and Jules Duhamel

This Climate, Peace and Security Thematic Fact Sheet examines how women, peace and security concerns intersect with climate-related risks and conflict dynamics. It highlights the…


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…


Conflict and Flooding Are Driving Deteriorating Acute Food Insecurity

2025 | Famine Early Warning System Network

This Key Message Update provides a high-level analysis of current acute food insecurity conditions and any changes to FEWS NET's latest projection of acute food…


Operationalizing Science and Technology Initiatives for Conflict Mitigation: A Strategic Framework

2025 | Global Policy
Lee Emerson Voth-Gaeddert, Mia Peterson, and Doug Momberg

As global conflict dynamics grow increasingly complex, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) offer a critical yet underutilized set of tools for advancing conflict mitigation.…


CSM Progress Report 2024: A Year of Rising Heat and Risk

2025 | United Nations

This report summarizes the main achievements of the Climate Security Mechanism in 2024 towards advancing peace-positive climate action, catalyzing climate-informed approaches to peace and security,…


Integrating Gender Perspectives into Environmental Sustainability: Ecological Security and Post-Conflict Impacts in the Middle East

2025 | Sociology and Cultural Research Review
Sania Haroon, Samrana Afzal, and Hina Butt

Understanding the pressing need to incorporate gender views into environmental sustainability initiatives in Middle Eastern conflict-affected areas with a special focus on Iraq, Syria, and…


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…


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…


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…


Disciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Environmental Science and International Relations

2025 | Anthropogenic Solutions for Climate Change
Olivier Serrat

By integrating environmental considerations into peacebuilding initiatives, we can create lasting solutions that address recurring root causes of conflict, such as competition over natural resources,…


Women’s Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding: Converging Nature, Climate, and Peace

2025 | CCCU Research Space Repository
I. Kopytsia and N. Slobodian

This article examines the role of female leadership in environmental peacebuilding, focusing on the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. It explores how women have…


Guidance Note – Integrating Climate Change into National Action Plans for Women, Peace and Security

2025 | UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

This UN Women Guidance Note provides practical, evidence-based guidance on integrating climate change into National Action Plans (NAPs) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). Climate…


Climate Change, Environmental Law, and National Security [Video]

2025 | Duke Law’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Mark Nevitt

Since 1995, the Duke Law’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The…


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.…


United Nations Bureaucracies and Knowledge Creation on Women, Peacebuilding, and Natural Resources (chapter in "Handbook on Gender and Security")

2025 | Handbook on Gender and Security
Natalia Dalmer

This chapter examines the concerted efforts of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women…


Climate Change and Gender-based Violence in Colombia: Peacebuilding, Feminism and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace

2025 | Handbook on Gender and Security
Natalia Urzola and María Paula González Espinel

Climate change's devastating effects exacerbate pre-existing conditions of vulnerability, including gender-based violence. For historically marginalized groups in Colombia (i.e., Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, peasants, women,…


Climate Change Exacerbated Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Role of the Feminist Foreign Policy

2024 | Environmental Policy and Law
Moumita Manda

Feminist foreign policy (FFP) ensures the representation and participation of women both nationally and internationally. Initially, it aimed to focus on some special areas relating…


NATO and Climate Change

2025 | Defence Studies
Rita Floyd

In recent years climate change has become an issue for NATO. Notably, climate change features prominently in the 2022 Strategic Concept. It was not always…


Peace, Propaganda, and Natural Resources: The Geoeconomics of Rwandan Peacekeeping in Mozambique and Implications for European and African Regionalism Projects

2023 | Peace Review
Kaitlyn Rabe

Since the end of the genocide in Rwanda, the small nation has solidified its reputation as an economic powerhouse among African countries, as well as…


Community Dialogue as a Peacebuilding Tool: Insights From Environmental Dialogue in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq

2024 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Amal Bourhrous

This SIPRI Research Policy Paper examines the linkages between climate and environmental issues and the dynamics of peace and conflict in the Nineveh Plains of…


Advancing the International Environment, Peace and Security Agenda

2025 | PAX
Elliot Mur, Brittany Roser, and Christina Parandii

The international community has so far been unable to keep pace with the increasing scale, speed, and complexity of environmental and climate risks facing humanity.…


De-escalation and Diplomacy: Disasters as Drivers of Reduced Conflict Risks in the Indo-Pacific

2025 | Australian Journal of International Affairs
Tobias Ide, Ali Hayes, Indah Larasati, and Chloe Canavan

Interest in the impact of disasters on conflict risks is burgeoning. This is particularly the case for the Indo-Pacific region, which is highly vulnerable to…


Navigating Policy Coherence for Peacebuilding and Environmental Sustainability in Colombia [Video]

2024 | CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies

How do we align policies to support both peacebuilding and environmental sustainability? This compelling question was at the heart of a recent webinar hosted by…


From Conflict to Collaboration: Co-Funding Environmental Peacebuilding in South-Central Somalia

2024 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Kheira Tarif

Somalia is experiencing significant impacts of climate change. Its climate-related vulnerabilities are exacerbated by the enduring effects of more than three decades of violent conflict…