South Sudan/ Gender Climate Peace Workshop

2024
UN Mission in South Sudan

In South Sudan, the climate crisis worsens an already critical humanitarian and security situation. Extreme weather, locust infestations, and droughts jeopardize food security, livelihoods, and…

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Environmental Security in War and Armed Conflict [Video]

2024 | UN Web TV

War against Ukraine caused large-scale environmental damage resulted in unprecedented pollution, disruption of ecosystems and physical destruction of biological species both on the territory of…

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Russia’s Ecocide in Ukraine: Environmental Destruction and the Need for Accountability [Video]

2024 | Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Kristina Hook, Eugene Z. Stakhiv, and Maryna Boydyuk

In the ten years since Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine, Ukraine estimates that Russia has inflicted some $60 billion in damages to…

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Journalist Peter Schwartzstein on the Link between Climate Change and Conflict [Video]

2024 | France 24

From farmers-turned-pirates in Bangladesh to jihadists in Iraq using drought as a recruiting tool, a new book by environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein explores the link…

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Peter Schwartzstein: Climate Violence in the Middle East [Video]

2024 | Center for Strategic and International Studies

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with Peter Schwartzstein, an environmental journalist who reports on water, food security, and the conflict-climate nexus in around…