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Syria: Deputy Director for Program and Operations

Mar 31, 2026 | Near East Foundation

NEF’s Syria programme is an integrated, enterprise centred, partnership-first model that combines finance, skills, markets, and systems to help communities recover and move towards dignified…

Iran: Aliabouzar - Iranian Women Show What It Means to Be a Freedom Fighter

Mar 9, 2026 | Mitra Aliabouzar
MSN

Iranian women are among the most courageous freedom fighters of our time. No group has challenged the Islamic Republic more consistently and more systematically than…

Why Women Are Central to Resilient Food Systems

Mar 9, 2026 | Mcallejas
CIMMYT

As climate change, economic instability, and biodiversity loss place increasing pressure on global food systems, building resilience has become an urgent priority. But resilience is…

Global: Towards Safer Engagement with Women Peacebuilders

Mar 8, 2026 | Berghof Foundation
Berghof Foundation

This International Women’s Day, we highlight a vital but often overlooked connection: the link between women’s participation in peace processes and mental health and psychosocial…

Uganda: Women Are Leading Uganda’s Environmental Transformation - Are We Supporting Them Enough?

Mar 7, 2026 | Jeremiah Nyagah
The Independent

As Uganda joins the rest of the world to mark International Women’s Day 2026 under the theme “Give to Gain”, we must look beyond celebration…

South Africa: Women Farmers in South Africa Pay the Cost of Broken Irrigation Systems – The Story of One Cooperative

Mar 5, 2026 | Khulekani T. Dlamini
The Conversation

The South African government makes a great deal of the fact that it supports women’s empowerment in agriculture.

But does it?

As an anthropologist, I’ve been engaged…

India: Supporting Women’s Leadership in Agrifood Systems in India

Mar 5, 2026 | Miranda Morgan and Meghajit Sharma Shijagurumayum
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Women are key actors in agrifood systems, playing leadership roles in agricultural cooperatives and producers’ organizations, large agribusinesses, and agrifood-related governmental and non-governmental institutions and…

Call for Submissions: Best Student Paper, Fourth International Conference [Deadline: March 15, 2026]

Mar 3, 2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Award for Best Student Paper on Environmental Peacebuilding acknowledges and celebrates meaningful work produced by undergraduate and/or graduate students in the field of environmental…

Draft Agenda for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (NOW AVAILABLE)

Mar 2, 2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The draft agenda for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding is now available for review here! 

The Conference will be held 16-19 June 2026 (with…

Iran: Three Days of Operation Epic Fury: A Rapid Overview of Environmental Harm in Iran and the Region

Mar 2, 2026 | Iryna Babanina, Eoghan Darbyshire, Rebekah Harries, Leon Moreland, Linas Svolkinas, and Jonathan Walsh
Conflict and Environment Observatory

A rapid overview of emerging environmental issues and risks in Iran and the wider region from Operation Epic Fury. Three days in and we’re already…

Liberia: Judiciary Moves to Enforce Supreme Court Mandate in Diamond Dispute

Mar 2, 2026 | Amos Harris
Global News Network Liberia

A renewed commitment to upholding the rule of law has taken center stage as the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court in Montserrado County directed decisive action…

Nature, Peace and Security: Too Important to Leave to Governments

Mar 2, 2026 | Doug Weir

The message is clear, the UK’s spooks have consulted with experts and concluded that global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse are a serious threat to…

Conflict Minerals: Who Controls the 21st Century? The Critical Minerals Power Map Reveals a Dangerous Western Vulnerability

Mar 1, 2026
Rare Earth Exchanges

If oil defined the 20th century, critical minerals define the 21st. The difference is structural: oil markets eventually diversified across continents and companies. Critical minerals…

Sierra Leone: Politics of Deforestation – Rogue Minister

Mar 1, 2026 | Abdul Rashid Thomas
Sierra Leone Telegraph

A senior politician facilitated illegal encroachment on a national park in Sierra Leone so elites could build mansions. The president sat on the evidence.

Addressing the Root Causes of the DRC Conflict

Feb 27, 2026 | Vuyisile J.S. Radebe

The DRC conflict has been going on for decades. Thousands of innocent lives have been lost while scores of women, children and the elderly have…

Groundwater and the Horn’s Climate Security Future: From Technical Resource to Strategic Asset

Feb 27, 2026 | Kidus Tesfaye

The Horn of Africa’s climate debate is often framed above ground: failed rains, drying rivers, shrinking pastures, emergency relief corridors, and displacement flows. But one…

The New Age of Resource Competition Needs Transparency

Feb 27, 2026 | Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

As countries scramble to secure the minerals needed for clean energy, digital technologies, AI, and defense industries, the new era of resource competition implies both…

Liberia’s Emerging Carbon Credit Sector: A Path Toward Climate Resilience, Economic Growth, and Sustainable Development

Feb 26, 2026 | Matthew Sieh Wisseh

Liberia, endowed with one of West Africa’s last vast rainforest ecosystems and significant coastal Blue Carbon resources, is moving decisively toward establishing a functional carbon…

Afghanistan: Gold Mining in Afghanistan Raises Security Concerns for Central Asia

Feb 26, 2026 | Sadokat Jalolova
Times of Central Asia

Large-scale gold mining in northern Afghanistan is increasingly raising tensions and potential security risks for Central Asia, particularly along the Afghan-Tajik border, according to a…

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association: Year in Review and What’s Ahead

Feb 25, 2026 | Karishma Goswami and Madeleine Loll

With a reduction in capacity of bilateral and multilateral institutions and a broader political retreat from environmental protection and peacebuilding, environmental peacebuilding reached a turning…

Water: From Tigris and Euphrates to Nile: Water Disputes and Regional Initiatives

Feb 25, 2026
Islam Times

West Asia and North Africa regions are facing growing water crisis. Now around 60 percent of their population is suffering from water tensions. A recent…

Mali: From Conflict to Collaboration: How Local Conventions Are Transforming Natural Resource Management and Supporting Peace in Central Mali

Feb 25, 2026 | Baba Ba
Peace News Network

Preventing and resolving conflicts over land and natural resources has become one of the major global challenges for peace, stability, and security in the Sahel,…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq to Resume Exportation of Kirkuk Oil through Kurdistan: Minister

Feb 25, 2026
Rudaw

Iraq plans in the “near” future to export 50,000 barrels per day of crude from Kirkuk oil fields through the Kurdistan Region’s pipeline to Turkey’s,…

Sudan: Drones Hammer Sudan’s Gold and Oil Zone – the Pivotal New Front Line

Feb 25, 2026 | Barbara Plett Usher
Namibian

Intensified drone attacks on the new front line of Sudan’s civil war have led to mass civilian casualties in recent weeks and are increasingly shaping…

Ukraine/Russia: The Russia-Ukraine War and Global Food Security: Impacts Four Years Later

Feb 24, 2026 | Caitlin Welsh, Emma Curtis, Joseph Glauber, Antonina Broyaka, and Vitalii Dankevych
Center for Strategic & International Studies

The immediate impacts of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Ukraine’s agriculture sector were abrupt and widespread. Though Ukrainian producers have demonstrated remarkable resilience in…

Water: Thirsty Planet, New Solutions: Three Lessons in Water Security

Feb 24, 2026 | Daniel Myers
Geopolitcal Monitor

Globally, 2.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, and 3.5 billion live without basic sanitation. This situation, detailed in the UN World Water…

Mike Davis to Step down as CEO of Global Witness

Feb 24, 2026
Global Witness

Mike joined Global Witness in 2002, managing a team of undercover investigators in Cambodia. After moving back to London, he spent five years leading the…

Climate Security: Workshop on Strengthening Climate Security and Peacebuilding Capacities in Central Asia and Afghanistan

Feb 24, 2026
United Nations Climate Security Mechanism

The workshop was organized by the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), on behalf of the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM), and the United Nations…

Colombia: Colombia Brings 12 Mexican Mennonites to Trial over Deforestation

Feb 24, 2026
MercoPress

Colombia’s prosecutor’s office is taking 12 Mexican Mennonites to trial over alleged deforestation of more than 100 hectares in rural Puerto Gaitán, Meta province, tied…

Syria’s Environmental Woes Fueled Its Long Conflict. Left Unaddressed, They Will Do So Again

Feb 23, 2026 | Peter Schwartzstein

Peter Schwartzstein recently returned to Syria for his first peacetime visit. Unsurprisingly, the country is an awful mess. The destruction is somehow slightly more conspicuous…