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How Grassroots Women-Led Networks are Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Climate-Conflict Risks: Experience from Latin America and the Caribbean

Aug 21, 2025 | Nohelia Palou Zúniga and Ignacio Madurga-Lopez

Across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), women are uniquely positioned to address the dual crises of climate change and conflict. Their community networks, rooted…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (DEADLINE: October 6, 2025)

Aug 19, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.…

Launch of EnPAx Urban Interest Group

Aug 19, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) is excited to announce the launch of a new Urban Interest Group. The Interest Group brings together scholars and practitioners who…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan Holds Two-Day Environmental Conference in Nangarhar

Aug 18, 2025 | Sadaqat Ghorzang
TOLOnews

Environmental experts emphasized the need to develop a comprehensive strategy for environmental protection.

Liberia: Land Authority Charges Towns Nearly US$12K to Resolve Boundary Dispute

Aug 18, 2025 | Carlucci Cooper
The Daylight

The Liberia Land Authority has charged two communities in Grand Gedeh County US$11,900 to cut their boundary, dragging a dispute over Burkinabe cocoa farmers.  

Afghanistan: From Drought to Floods, Water Extremes Drive Displacement in Afghanistan

Aug 16, 2025 | Susannah Walden and Qubad Wali
Agence France-Presse

The water cycle has been sharply impacted, with Afghanistan again in the grip of drought for the fourth time in five years and flash floods…

DRC: What Stands between the DRC and Lasting Peace? [Video]

Aug 15, 2025
TRT World

For decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has witnessed one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II — yet the world remains largely…

Food Security: Starvation Is a War Crime, but Will Justice Ever Be Done?

Aug 15, 2025 | Cathrin Schaer
Deutsche Welle

Experts say that food is increasingly being used as a weapon in conflicts in places like Sudan, Syria and Gaza. But there's never been a…

India/Pakistan: India Faces Diplomatic Challenge after Rejecting Jurisdiction of International Court on Water Treaty

Aug 15, 2025 | Kazim Alam
TRT Global

India may find itself in a diplomatic quagmire after rejecting an international court’s ruling that New Delhi must allow the unimpeded flow of western rivers…

Liberia: Liberia Land Authority Targets Double Land Sales in Bong County

Aug 15, 2025 | Princess Flomo
Libierian Investigator

In communities across Liberia, from crowded urban margins to remote rural districts, land disputes rooted in overlapping claims, customary ambiguities, and corrupt practices continue to…

Liberia: Burkinabés Clash over Land in Grand Gedeh

Aug 15, 2025 | Ishmael F. Menkor
Observer

Tension is said to be mounting in Grand Gedeh County between two groups of Burkinabé over farmlands, causing fear among the locals. Reports reaching the…

DRC: Deputy Country Director, Operations – Democratic Republic of Congo

Aug 15, 2025 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is present in the DRC since August 2007 with a current workforce of more than 300 national and expatriate employees and operational presence…

Syria: Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihood Coordinator

Aug 15, 2025 | Première Urgence Internationale

Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) develops its integrated approach with infrastructure, WASH, education and livelihoods actions. Furthermore, PUI works on rehabilitating collective and private shelters and…

Yemen/Lebanon: Regional Food Security & Livelihood Specialist

Aug 15, 2025 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts…

Syria: Study on the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Water Resource Management, Adaptation and Mitigation Measures - SABIR Project

Aug 15, 2025 | Expertise France

Expertise France (EF) is a public agency part of the AFD Group, merging six agencies under the supervision of the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs…

Somalia: Climate Resilience Advisor (National Position)

Aug 15, 2025 | CARE USA

CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. We seek a world of hope, inclusion and social justice, where…

Somalia: Displacement and Economic Advisor (National Position)

Aug 15, 2025 | CARE USA

CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. We seek a world of hope, inclusion and social justice, where…

Lebanon: Technical Coordinator Climate and Environment

Aug 15, 2025 | Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development

The Technical Coordinator Climate and Environment is responsible for the provision of strategic planning and technical guidance on activities within the area of Climate and…

Ethiopia/Kenya/Uganda: Terms of Reference: Outcome Harvesting Consultancy for the Reclaim Sustainability Program

Aug 15, 2025 | Solidaridad East & Central Africa

Solidaridad Network is an international solution-oriented civil society organization working through eight regional expertise centres to transform markets to make them more sustainable and inclusive. Our…

Multiple Countries: Food Security and Livelihood Advisor

Aug 15, 2025 | ForAfrika

The Food Security and Livelihood Advisor serves as technical leader for Forafrika's comprehensive food security and livelihood programming portfolio across multiple country operations in Africa.…

Greening the Military: Why Defence Spending Must Align with Climate Action

Aug 14, 2025 | Hema Nadarajah

In preparing for conflicts, we may be compromising our ability to confront the climate emergency. Sustainability must be part of our defence strategy.

Nigeria: Plateau State Trains Officials in Peacebuilding through Land Dispute Mediation

Aug 14, 2025 | Roger A. Agana
News Ghana

Government workers from four key Plateau State agencies transformed into certified peace mediators this week after intensive training in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques.

Climate Change: Why Women, Peace and Security Plans in the Mediterranean Must Confront Climate Risks

Aug 14, 2025 | Ibukun Taiwo
CGIAR

Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) National Action Plans are a powerful but underused tool for tackling the interconnected challenges of gender, climate, and conflict. Across…

Call for Proposals: Path To Ottawa

Aug 13, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association & University of Ottawa

In the lead-up to the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding–taking place in June 2026 in Ottawa, Canada–the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and Conference partners…

Mali: Grant and Project Manager (Shea and Renewable Energy)/ Chef·fe de projet (Karité & Énergies Renouvelables)

Aug 13, 2025 | ActionAid
ReliefWeb

ActionAid est une fédération internationale œuvrant pour un monde juste, équitable et durable, libéré de la pauvreté et de l’oppression.
Notre stratégie consiste à créer une…

DRC: Inside the Mine that Feeds the Tech World – and Funds Congo’s Rebels

Aug 13, 2025 | Giulia Paravicini and David Lewis
Reuters

Rubaya produces around 15% of the world’s coltan, all dug manually by impoverished locals who earn a few dollars per day. Control of this mine…

Iraq: ‘It’s Destruction Disguised as Progress’: How the Oil Industry Is Sucking Iraq’s Ancient Wetlands Dry

Aug 13, 2025 | Azhar Al-Rubaie, Sara Manisera, and Daniela Sala
Guardian

Hawizeh’s wetlands once had abundant fishing and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the water.

Iraq/Kurdistan: KRG, Baghdad Agree Deal to Resume Kurdish Oil Exports

Aug 13, 2025
Rudaw

The Kurdistan Region’s natural resources ministry said on Wednesday that Erbil and Baghdad have reached an agreement on the mechanism of resuming the Region’s long-delayed…

DRC: US Imposes Sanctions over DR Congo Minerals Sales

Aug 13, 2025 | Yinka Adegoke
Semafor

The Trump administration sanctioned four entities over their role in the critical minerals trade in eastern DR Congo as it seeks to implement a peace…

Climate Security Is National Security. Africa Is Our First Line of Defense

Aug 12, 2025 | Patrick Verkooijen

NATO’s decision to increase defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product by 2035, including 1.5% for resilience and critical infrastructure, marks the most significant shift…