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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #164 – April 21, 2020 |
AnnouncementsEnvironmental Peacebuilding Association Celebrates 2nd Anniversary April 21, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association On Earth Day 2020, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) will celebrate its 2nd anniversary.Request for Proposals: Environment and Conflict in Burma / Myanmar April 17, 2020 | US Institute of Peace The effects of climate change are appearing faster than anticipated around the world. The costs could have drastic and potentially catastrophic impacts on citizens, communities, and business.Staying Connected During COVID-19: Get Engaged through the Interest Groups April 10, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is committed to people to stay connected during these unprecedented times. |
EventsFor more upcoming events on environmental peacebuilding, please visit our online calendar of events. Virtual Consultation to Gauge Interest in a Private Sector Interest Group May 12, 2020 Environmental Peacebuilding Association online The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is considering the creation of an Interest Group to engage members working on the link between environmental affairs, peacebuilding, and the private sector.Water, Sanitation, COVID-19, and Cooperation in the Middle East April 30, 2020 Environmental Peacebuilding Association online The UN Secretary-General recently called for a global ceasefire considering the unprecedented threats posed by COVID-19 in conflict-affected areas.IMPACT’s Innovative Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation April 29, 2020 Environmental Peacebuilding Association online In this webinar, IMPACT will walk participants through its M&E system and provide examples of how the analysis generated by the data can be rendered actionable to achieve measurable SDG results.Getting Published: How to Tell Your Story to the Media April 24, 2020 Environmental Peacebuilding Association online This webinar is a part of a mentorship series hosted by the Environmental Peacebuilding Association’s Young Professionals Interest Group.FP Virtual Dialogue: Climate & Security - Report Launch April 22, 2020 Foreign Policy online Foreign Policy is hosting a special Earth Day edition FP Virtual Dialogue on the topic of Climate & Security, which will feature the release of FP Analytics’ latest report and an expert dialogue…Self-Paced MOOC on Environmental Security & Sustaining Peace (CLOSING SOON) January 30, 2020 - 2020-06-23 Environmental Peacebuilding Association, UN Environment, ELI, Columbia University, Duke University, UC Irvine, UNDP, and SDG Academy online Conflicts over natural resources and the environment are among the greatest challenges in 21st-century geopolitics. These conflicts present serious threats to human security at both the national and local levels. |
LibraryIn the last two weeks, 17 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. Here is a sampling of the new additions: January 1, 2020 “Five Years of Fighting in Eastern Ukraine” is a set of infographics which demonstrate the dynamics and trends of environmental change since the onset of the armed conflict.January 1, 2020 | Donald R. Liddick Jr. The processes by which natural resource wealth is generated and diverted from workers and citizens to relatively powerful, elite actors—wheter army commanders, terrorist leaders, rebel chiefs, corporate officers, or government officials—is the central…Land Titles and Violent Conflict in Rural Mexico January 1, 2020 | Paul Castaneda Dower and Tobias Pfutze Better enforcement of property rights reduces the incentives to engage in violent competition over resources.January 1, 2020 | Kevin M. Woods This article presents field research data on a smallholder maize crop boom in Shan State, northern Myanmar, and its spatially uneven dispossessory effects.Water Conflicts: Analysis for Transformation January 1, 2020 | Mark Zeitoun, Naho Mirumachi, and Jeroen Warner Our focus in this book is on the conflicts over international transboundary watercourses, and on the massive impact that the tensions generate in the lives of millions of people and diverse ecosystems that…January 1, 2020 | William John Walwa The growing number of farmer-herder resource conflicts in Tanzania is often presented in official narratives as a product of climate change resulting from increased environmental pressures.January 1, 2020 | Louisa Lombard and Jérome Tubiana Scholarly attention to the militarization of conservation efforts globally is now being further explored through attention to the specific dynamics around “green militarization” in places where violent conflict is endemic, as in this…Deforestation in Colombian Protected Areas Increased during Post-Conflict Periods January 1, 2020 | N. Clerici, D. Armenteras, P. Kareiva, R. Botero, J.P. Ramirez-Delgado, G. Forero-Medina, J. Ochoa, C. Pedraza, L. Schneider, C. Lora, C. Gomez, M. Linares, C. Hirashiki, and D. Biggs Protected areas (PAs) are a foundational and essential strategy for reducing biodiversity loss.January 1, 2020 | Paul R. Furumo and Eric F. Lambin The rise of public and private zero-deforestation commitments is opening a new collaborative space in global forest governance.COVID-19 and Conflict: Seven Trends to Watch January 1, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic unquestionably presents an era-defining challenge to public health and the global economy. Its political consequences, both short- and long-term, are less well understood.Conflict Prevention in an Era of Climate Change. Adapting the UN to Climate-Security Risks January 1, 2020 | Adam Day and Jessica Caus Today’s violent conflicts are proving deadlier and more difficult to resolve than ever before.January 1, 2019 | David Jensen This case study profiles copper mining in Aynak, Afghanistan, where mineral wealth has the potential to contribute to stabilization in post-conflict recovery.January 1, 2019 | David Jensen This case study delves into the environmental dimensions of the causes, conduct, peacemaking, and post-conflict peacebuilding of Colombia’s civil war. |
JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. Myanmar: Resilient Asian Deltas (RAD) Initiative Lead April 20, 2020 | World Wide Fund for Nature WWF’s strategy harnesses the strengths of the WWF network in a shared vision, focusing on six major goals - water, wildlife, the ocean, climate and energy, forests, and food – and three key…April 20, 2020 | Cooperazione Internazionale Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an Italian humanitarian non-governmental organization founded in Milan in 1965.DRC: Environmental Safeguarding Officer – Kinshasa April 20, 2020 | ACTED Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth…April 20, 2020 | Tearfund Tearfund is a UK Christian relief and development agency. It currently works in around 50 countries, with a primary focus on supporting those in poverty and providing disaster relief for disadvantaged communities.Iraq: International Water Accounting Specialist April 20, 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN The Regional Office for Near East and North Africa (FAO-RNE) leads a key Regional Initiative on Water Scarcity.April 20, 2020 | UNDP The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations Joint collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) in developing countries.Colombia: Pacific REDD+ Coordinator April 20, 2020 | Chemonics Chemonics seeks a Pacific REDD+ coordinator to implement the Wildlife Works Carbon IQS for the USAID Páramos and Forests Activity in Colombia. |
InternationalLiberia: Two Communities Sign Logging Contracts, but Sector Woes Loom December 23, 2019 | James Harding Giahyue, FrontPage Africa There are huge expectations throughout Korninga after this remote chiefdom in Gbarpolu’s Bopolu District signed a logging contract with Coveiyalah Investment Enterprises.Afghanistan: For Women in Kabul, ‘It Is Just Me and the Water’ December 22, 2019 | Fatima Faizi and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times Though the city has become markedly more politically progressive in the nearly two decades it has been governed by a Western-backed democracy, Kabul is still steeped in a socially conservative Afghan culture that…Brazil: ‘The Forest is Shedding Tears’: The Women Defending Their Amazon Homeland December 21, 2019 | Jonathan Watts, The Guardian It is midnight at an almost deserted bus station and one of the Amazon’s most courageous warriors is sitting on a plastic chair and breastfeeding her child, apparently indifferent to the hefty price…Liberia: Ethnic Tension Thwarts Court’s Ruling in Ganta Land Case December 18, 2019 | Joaquin M. Sendolo, Observer The Eighth Judicial Circuit in Sanniquellie, Nimba County passed its ruling in a land case in 2018, giving right of possession to Fred Suah of the Mano tribe over the Jabatehs and Donzos,…Conflict Minerals: Switzerland Probes Illegal Trading of Coltan by Swiss Trader during DRC Civil War December 12, 2019 | William Clowes, Business Day Swiss prosecutors are investigating a trader of one of the world’s most sought-after-minerals over allegations he illegally dealt in metals during Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC's) civil war.December 9, 2019 | E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor, New Dawn The Government of Liberia through the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) announces sale of several blocks here, beginning next licensing round.Iraq: Year after Poisoning Disaster, Iraq Seeks End to Its Water Crisis December 8, 2019 | Julian Kirchherr, Conversation Basra, once known as the “Venice of the Middle East” because of its freshwater canals, has been suffering acute shortages of potable water because of pollution and contamination.Afghanistan: Afghans Mourn Japanese Doctor Nakamura, Who Came to Treat Leprosy but Cured Drought December 7, 2019 | Kritika Sharma, The Print The death of a Japanese doctor who helped lakhs of Afghans gain access to clean water drew pained reactions and tributes from across the country this week.December 6, 2019 | UN Women Arab States Over 70 representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) and youth advocates from across the Arab States region met in Amman, Jordan on 26 and 27 November, to conduct a parallel review and discussion… |
Blogs & OpinionIn the last two weeks, 9 blogs & opinion pieces on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. COVID-19 Shows How Reckless Jordan Valley Annexation Would Be April 17, 2020 | Gidon Bromberg, Yana Abu Taleb, and Nada Majdalani “Cutting off the nose to spite the face” is an apt expression to describe the lack of rationale behind Israeli government policies calling for unilateral annexation of areas of the West Bank and…Conflict to Conservation: How Guerrilla Fighters Became Environmentalists April 17, 2020 | Eleanor Whitworth The unlikely protectors of Columbia’s wildlife and flora. They were guerrilla fighters in a lengthy civil war. Now they're protecting Colombia's pristine, richly biodiverse jungles and ecosystems.Environmental Effects of Chinese Projects in Myanmar April 15, 2020 | Megha Gupta The Chinese “project of the century” — the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is a transcontinental network of roads, railways and ports, covering dams, mines and pipelines is causing major environmental deterioration…In Frozen Negotiations over the Donbas, Environment Is Everything April 15, 2020 | Gabriella Gricius Despite the many issues plaguing negotiations to bring ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine to an end, one aspect that positively contributes to mutual cooperation and goodwill between Ukraine and Russia that is often…April 13, 2020 | Meaghan Parker “If the pope is interested, everyone is interested,” said Alexandre Roulin, accepting the 2019 Environmental Peacebuilding Research Award in Irvine, California.In Wasting Oil Wealth, Baghdad and the KRG Have More in Common Than Meets the Eye April 9, 2020 | Nick Augustijn With the slump in oil prices, and some analysts forecasting prices to head towards $10 per barrel, yet more hard times are ahead for Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), where oil…Amid COVID-19 Lockdown and Land Conflict, a Village Wages Struggle to Live April 8, 2020 | Richard Calayeg Cornelio While the government scrambles to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities, not much has been clamored, at the same pitch, about relief for rural communities where the crisis has also…Evaluating Environmental Peacebuilding: Difficult but Necessary April 7, 2020 | Juha I. Uitto and Amanda Woomer When you first hear the phrase “environmental peacebuilding,” you may think that these two words are not directly linked. Think again.From ENMOD to Geoengineering: The Environment as a Weapon of War April 7, 2020 | Gabriela Kolpak Collateral environmental damage has long been regarded as an inevitable consequence of armed conflicts. |
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Compiled by Andrew Blunt, Rollin Bresson, Alex Caplan, Charlotte Collins, Jordan Dieni, Claire Doyle, Kevin Eggert, Flavia Eichmann, Giovanni Gio, Desirée De Haven, Liz Hessami, Ellen Johnson, Chiara Maero, Marie Mavrikios, Julia Monsarrat, and Rachel Stern |
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