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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #151 – October 22, 2019 |
AnnouncementsOctober 21, 2019 | University of Exeter Colombia ranks second most diverse country in the world and hosts over 10% of currently known species worldwide.Mentorship – A Mentorship Program on Farmer-Herder Conflict October 21, 2019 | Search for Common Ground Search secured a grant from Carnegie Corporation entitled “Amplifying the Expertise of African Peacebuilding Practitioners and Scholars”.Security and Human Rights Grant 2019 October 10, 2019 | Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance DCAF is pleased to launch today the Security and Human Rights Grant 2019.Environmental Peacebuilding Association’s 2019 Annual Membership Meeting October 8, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) will hold the annual meeting of its membership during the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding in Irvine, CA on October 24, 2019, from 7:30-8:45am PDT.Slate of Candidates for the EnPAx Board of Directors Now Available October 7, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) has announced the candidates running for open seats on its Board of Directors.Self-Paced MOOC on Environmental Security & Sustaining Peace Now Live! September 23, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association On Monday, September 23, the Association -- in partnership with UNEP, ELI, Columbia University, Duke University, UC Irvine, UNDP, and the SDG Academy -- launched the third running of its popular massive open… |
EventsFor more upcoming events on environmental peacebuilding, please visit our online calendar of events. Creating a Future for All: Climate Justice and Peacebuilding - A Geneva Peace Week Event November 6, 2019 Inter-Parliamentary Union, Graduate Institue of International and Development Studies Environmental Committee, and Quaker United Nations Office Geneva, Switzerland Climate change is already having disastrous consequences worldwide, and its impacts are most directly borne by the most vulnerable social groups due to their lack of resources and capacity to build resilience.Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2019 October 28, 2019 - 2019-10-30 Asian Development Bank Manila, Philippines The Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2019 (#RDFS2019) is a call to action for DMC governments to provide active leadership to generate rural prosperity and effective stewardship to land and water (fresh and marine)…Breakfast Meetings for Interest Groups October 25, 2019 - 2019-10-25 Environmental Peacebuilding Association University of California, Irvine At the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association's Interest Groups will host breakfast meetings for current and prospective Interest Group members.Shoring Up Stability: Addressing Climate and Fragility Risks in the Lake Chad Region October 24, 2019 adelphi Niamey, Niger Lake Chad is caught in a conflict trap.First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding October 23, 2019 - 2019-10-25 Environmental Peacebuilding Association University of California, Irvine The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is proud to announce that the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding will be held October 23-25, 2019 at the University of California Irvine. |
LibraryIn the last two weeks, 21 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. Here is a sampling of the new additions: Protecting Environmental Human Rights in Armed Conflict Situations January 1, 2019 | Uzeyir Mammadov and Turqhay Huseynov Over the past half century or more, the continuing degradation of the environment has become one of the most serious problems facing humankind.Civil Resistance and Violent Conflict in Latin America: Mobilizing for Rights January 1, 2019 | Cécile Mouly and Esperanza Hernández Delgado This book explores distinct forms of civil resistance in situations of violent conflict in cases across Latin America, drawing important lessons learned for nonviolent struggles in the region and beyond.A Lot of Talk, but Little Action—The Blind Spots of Nordic Environmental Security Policy January 1, 2019 | Emma Hakala, Ville Lähde, Antti Majava, Tero Toivanen, Tere Vadén, Paavo Järvensivu, and Jussi T. Eronen Despite an increasing recognition that environmental change may have implications for security, there only are few policies to address the issue.Environmental Peacemaking and Environmental Peacebuilding in International Politics January 1, 2019 | Tobias Ide This working papers summarises the main results of the author's habilitation thesis on environmental peacebuilding and environmental peacemaking.Conciliation for Marine Transboundary Energy Resources January 1, 2019 | Volker Röben and Rafael Emmanuel Macatangay The LOS Convention assigns the right to exploit resources exclusively to one or another coastal state.January 1, 2019 | Anita L. Meldrum Climate justice is a new issue in terms of its aim to resolve an emerging and very complex set of problems, including woman empowerment, health and economic development, food and poverty, security and…Natural Resource Dependency and Entrepreneurship: Are Nations with High Resource Rents Cursed? January 1, 2019 | Dustin Chambers and Jonathan Munemo Testing the hypothesis that the resource curse promotes rent‐seeking behaviour at the expense of entrepreneurship, the authors examine the relationship between natural resource rents and new business creation using a panel of 116…Climatic Stress, Internal Migration, and Syrian Civil War Onset January 1, 2019 | Konstantin Ash and Nick Obradovich Syria recently suffered a once in five-hundred-year meteorological drought followed by one of the worst conflicts of the 21st Century.Outside the Frame: Looking Beyond the Myth of Garamba's LRA Ivory-Terrorism Nexus January 1, 2019 | Kristof Titeca and Patrick Edmond There have been widespread reports of elephant poaching by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Garamba National Park (GNP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), presenting a narrative that ivory poaching…January 1, 2019 | Hannah L. Harrison, Sophia Kochalski, Robert Arlinghaus, and Øystein Aas Stakeholders with shared interests in fish conservation often disagree about which specific conservation measures are appropriate, leading to conflicts with sometimes long‐lasting and disruptive social and political effects.Pursuing Disaster Risk Reduction on Fractured Foundations: The Case of Chad January 1, 2019 | Katie Peters, Anne-Lise Dewulf, Veronique Barbelet, Colette Benoudji, and Virginie Le Masson Conventional disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts tend to focus on mitigating risk related to short-term, extreme events associated with high-visibility catastrophes such as earthquakes, floods and landslides.The Sustainability of Post-Conflict Development: The Case of Algeria January 1, 2019 | Khaldoon A. Mourad and Helen Avery The Algerian civil war, 1992–2002, affected all aspects of life in the country. Major development efforts were therefore initiated in the post-conflict era. |
JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. October 21, 2019 | Norwegian People's Aid The vision of Norwegian People's Aid is Solidarity in Action. We are a politically independent membership-based organisation working in Norway and in more than 35 countries around the world.Nigeria: Protection Officer (Nigerian Nationals Only) October 21, 2019 | INTERSOS INTERSOS is an independent humanitarian organization that assists the victims of natural disasters, armed conflicts and exclusion.Myanmar: National Land Resources and Land Use Planning Specialist October 21, 2019 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO Myanmar is implementing a project under a Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) titled “Technical assistance in development of strategic tools for planning agriculture diversification and dietary improvement” to develop two strategic technical planning…Somalia: Water and Sanitation Engineer October 20, 2019 | UN Support Office in Somalia The United Nations Support Office for AMISOM is a field support operation led by the United Nations Department of Field Support.Iraq: Project Lead - Activating Markets and Agricultural Livelihoods (AMAL) October 20, 2019 | Norwegian Refugee Council The Norwegian Refugee Council is a humanitarian, non-governmental organisation that protects the rights of people affected by displacement. |
International NewsIn the last two weeks, 34 international news items on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. The following is a sampling: Liberia: EPA, UNDP Seek to Reconcile Weaknesses in Environmental Policies, Legal Instruments July 23, 2019 | FrontPage Africa With funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Liberia Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Tuesday, 23 July 2019 commenced a three-day ‘Cross-Cutting Capacity Development’ (CCCD) technical…Iraq: Iraq Races to Save Last of Middle East's Forests from Burning July 22, 2019 | Peter Schwartzstein, National Geographic Iraq is on fire, and Aram Ismail has no idea how to stanch the flames.Myanmar: More Than 45,000 People Affected by First Monsoon Flood July 22, 2019 | Myat Moe Aung, Myanmar Times Flooding caused by the first monsoon of the season displaced more than 45,000 people, according to a statement issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs-Myanmar (OCHA) on Thursday.July 21, 2019 | Anne Barker and Michael Barnett, ABC News East Timor is almost wholly reliant on oil and gas for its revenue.The US’s Toxic Agent Orange Legacy July 20, 2019 | Charles Dunst, Atlantic Paris Dauk, 24, is among several people in border villages in southeast Cambodia who, despite being born to families with no history of deformities, came out of the womb with defects that include…Iraq: Iraq Kills Daesh Oil Minister July 20, 2019 | Middle East Monitor Iraq’s intelligence services have killed the oil minister of Daesh in Syria, according to Iraqi security expert Fadel Abu-Ragheef.Israel/Palestine/Gaza: Israeli Spraying of Herbicide Near Gaza Harming Palestinian Crops July 19, 2019 | Miriam Berger, Guardian Israeli aircraft spraying herbicide beside the buffer zone along the Gaza strip is directly affecting the livelihoods of Palestiniansin violation of international standards, a new report claims.Women Key in Peace Negotiations- UN Women July 19, 2019 | Sarah Mazirwe, New Vision The UN Women has urged the government to increase the engagement of women in peace negotiations in conflicts.Nigeria: Land Grabbing behind Herdsmen-Farmers Crisis – Yuguda July 16, 2019 | Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Vanguard Former Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda on Tuesday said that land grabbing and population explosion were responsible for the crisis between farmers and herdsmen in the country.Myanmar: How a Singaporean Is Changing the Fates of Rice Farmers in Myanmar [Video] July 13, 2019 | Desmond Ng and Alistair Ang, Channel News Asia Against a backdrop of climate change and a cyclone disaster, David Chen is helping to tackle the problem of poverty through the way rice is farmed in the country, as On The Red…South Sudan: South Sudan Collects 36 Million USD Tax from Non-Oil Sources July 12, 2019 | Xinhua South Sudan said on Friday that it collected over 7 billion South Sudanese Pounds (36 million U. S. dollars) in the last six months from non-oil sources.India: Water Wars: Tempers Fray as Shortages Bite in New Delhi July 12, 2019 | Joe Wallen, Telegraph Soaring temperatures and a long delay to the start of the monsoon season are behind some of the most severe water shortages in New Delhi's history – and the water scarcity is even leading…Iraq: Iraq Seeks to Promote Oil Exports via Integrated Infrastructure: Minister July 12, 2019 | Hellenic Shipping News The Iraqi oil minister said that his ministry seeks to promote Iraqi oil exports through establishment of integrated infrastructure. |
Blogs & OpinionIn the last two weeks, 3 blogs & opinion pieces on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. Drugs, Gold and Guns Bring Terror and Death to 400-Mile Waterway in Colombia October 16, 2019 | Billy Briggs For traditional communities on the River Atrato in the Chocó region, the snaking waterway is life itself, playing a central role in their cultural, economic and social lives.How Fires Threaten Syria's Security October 15, 2019 | Justin Schon, Robert D. Field, and Michael J. Puma Fires are proliferating. By the end of September, over 4,500 active fires had been detected in Syria during 2019.Bomb Cyclones and Breadbaskets: How Climate, Food, and Political Unrest Intersect October 8, 2019 | David Harary and Sunny Petzinger The torrential downpour, ice, and eventual flooding of the US plains on March 15 and 16 left ranchers stunned. |
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Compiled by Rollin Bresson, Alice Chen, Jasmine Chen, Charlotte Collins, Adrienne Derstine, Kevin Eggert, Nina Hamilton, Desirée De Haven, Liz Hessami, Jacqueline Kessler, Elena Kochnowicz, Marie Mavrikios, Amanda Mei, Julia Monsarrat, Zabrina Welter, and Junjun Zhou |
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