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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #184 – January 26, 2021 |
AnnouncementsRegistration Open for the Conference on “Environmental Governance for Peace in Colombia” January 26, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association On March 18, 2021, the Conference on “Environmental Governance for Peace in Colombia” will bring together diverse perspectives to share experiences and learning on environmental peacebuilding in Colombia.Historic Special Issue on Environmental Peacebuilding Now Available (Open Access) January 26, 2021 | International Affairs and Environmental Peacebuilding Association International Affairs just published the first-ever special issue dedicated solely to environmental peacebuilding.Call for Proposals: Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference January 19, 2021 | Royal Anthropological Institute The Royal Anthropological Institute is very pleased to announce the call for panel proposals for a major interdisciplinary conference on Anthropology and Conservation. |
EventsFor more upcoming events on environmental peacebuilding, please visit our online calendar of events. Conference on Environmental Conflict and Cooperation March 3, 2021 University of California, Davis online Environmental concerns and natural resources can be a cause for conflict between ethnic, religious, national, and political groups, but they can also be a reason for cooperation between countries, organizations, communities, and individuals.Environment, Peace, and Conflict: Opportunities and Risks for the New Administration February 24, 2021 Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Wilson's Center Environmental Change & Security Program (ECSP) online The new Biden administration faces a variety of challenges and a rapidly changing environment will exacerbate many of the challenges.February 18, 2021 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, and Environmental Peacebuilding Association online Colonialism is a structure that has oppressed indigenous communities and communities of color for generations. Simultaneously, it has degraded the environment through extraction, development, and overconsumption.February 18, 2021 Duke Center for International and Global Studies, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, Environmental Law Institute, Global Green Growth Institute, and Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment online “Junior Scholars in Conversation: Comparative Dimensions of Environmental Peace Building” marks the closing of the Colombia Arc series, providing a discussive format to engage scholars in conversation on comparative interstate environmental peace building.February 11, 2021 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies & Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion (both at the University of Notre Dame); Environmental Peacebuilding Association; and Young Evangelicals for Climate Action online This event was recorded and can be viewed here: https://www. youtube. com/watch?February 10, 2021 International Association of Genocide Scholars, Raphaël Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program, and Environmental Peacebuilding Association online This event was recorded and can be viewed here: https://www. youtube. com/watch?February 8, 2021 Mirali Shukla online Community resilience in the face of drastic environmental changes requires a deeper understanding of the struggles being felt most dramatically.February 7, 2021 Mirali Shukla online Community resilience in the face of drastic environmental changes requires a deeper understanding of the struggles being felt most dramatically.Shifting Power: Transitioning to Renewable Energy in United Nations Peace Operations January 28, 2021 Missions of Norway and United Arab Emirates to the UN, Energy Peace Partners, and Stimson Center online Energy Peace Partners and the Stimson Center are pleased to release Shifting Power: Transitioning to Renewable Energy in United Nations Peace Operations, the new report in our Powering Peace series.Launch Event: International Affairs’ Special Issue on Environmental Peacebuilding January 27, 2021 Wilson Center online "In a new special issue of International Affairs, contributors illustrate the value of environmental peacebuilding both as an integrative research field and as a practice for furthering peace, sustainability, and development globally. |
LibraryIn the last two weeks, 20 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. Here is a sampling of the new additions: Environmental Peacebuilding - The Year in Review and the Year Ahead [Video] January 1, 2021 The Environmental Peacebuilding Association hosted its third year-in-review seminar, “Environmental Peacebuilding: The Year in Review and the Year Ahead,” on January 13, 2021.Effects of Violent Political Conflict on the Supply, Demand and Fragmentation of Fresh Food Markets January 1, 2020 | Ziv Bar-Nahum, Israel Finkelshtain, Rico Ihle, and Ofir D. Rubin Violent political conflict has been documented to have comprehensive adverse effects on economic activity and, thus, substantially harm social welfare.January 1, 2020 | Carol Hernández, Hugo Perales, and Daniel Jaffee Violent conflicts are frequently associated with detrimental or neutral effects on economic, social, and environmental development; by extension, one might expect similar effects on agrobiodiversity.January 1, 2020 | Úrsula Oswald Spring Climate change is severely affecting the availability of water and its quality. Therefore it represents a direct challenge to health.Causes and Consequences of Conflict among Agricultural Water Beneficiaries in Iran January 1, 2020 | Masoud Bijani, Dariush Hayati, Hossein Azadi, Vjekoslav Tanaskovik, and Frank Witlox This study aimed to analyze the causes and consequences of agricultural water conflicts among agricultural water beneficiaries in the irrigation network of Doroodzan dam, Iran.Winning the Peace: Peacebuiding and Climate Change in Mali and Somalia January 1, 2020 | Hannah Grene, Sidi Guindo, Amadou Guindo, Abdourahamane Kamagnagou, Abdullahi Rashi Abdullahi, and Alma Mølset Andersen In this research in Mali and Somalia, the authors set out to explore how ordinary people are experiencing the combined effects of climate change and conflict.January 1, 2020 | Anthony Bebbington, Benjamin Fash, and John Rogan During the mid-2000s, Honduras and El Salvador implemented mining moratoria.January 1, 2020 | Yohannes Yebabe Tesfay Forthwith the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) by the Ethiopian government triggered a transboundary water conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia.Constructing a Crisis: The Effect of Resource Curse Discourse on Extractive Governance in Ghana January 1, 2020 | McKenzie F. Johnson, Rebecca L. Laurent, and Benjamin Kwao Ghana’s 2007 oil discovery prompted widespread concern about the “political resource curse.Land Is Now the Biggest Gun: Climate Change and Conflict in Karamoja, Uganda January 1, 2020 | Daniel Abrahams Places that are both recovering from violent conflict and dependent on natural recourses face the overlapping challenges of reducing the risk of recurring conflict, promoting economic recovery, and ensuring sustainable environmental management: all… |
JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. Ethiopia: Programme Management Officer, Climate Security Mechanism January 25, 2021 | UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations…January 23, 2021 | International Union for the Conservation of Nature The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a union of Members made up of governments and civil society organizations.Afghanistan: Assistant FAO Representative January 23, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN The main aim of the FAO country offices, which are headed by an FAO Representative, is to assist governments to develop policies, programmes and projects to achieve food security and to reduce hunger…Myanmar: Forest Programme Manager January 23, 2021 | World Wide Fund for Nature The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.January 23, 2021 | Natural Resource Governance Institute For the one billion people living in poverty in resource-rich countries, the oil, gas and mining sectors have failed to deliver on the promise of better quality of life.Kenya: Programme Management Officer, Climate Security Mechanism January 23, 2021 | UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations…January 21, 2021 | UN Global Service Centre The United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC) provides critical Supply Chain, Geospatial, Information and Telecommunications Technologies services and Training to all peacekeeping and special political missions around the world.Consultancy for Nexus Programme Evaluation in the Lake Chad Region January 17, 2021 | Plan International Plan International strives to advance children’s rights and equality for girls all over the world. |
International NewsIn the last two weeks, 30 international news items on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. The following is a sampling: Land: Reversing Land Degradation Can ‘Pre-empt and Manage’ Conflicts September 17, 2020 | UN n a virtual briefing on the humanitarian impact of continued degradation, peace and security, the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Ibrahim Thiaw, reminded the Council that environmental protection…Nigeria: Between Farmers and Herdsmen September 16, 2020 | Daniel Essiet, Nation These are not cheery times for farmers as a result of the incessant conflicts with cattle herders.Sierra Leone: Mines Minister Calls on Mining Companies to Step up Operations September 16, 2020 | Abdul Rashid Thomas, Sierra Leone Telegraph Timothy Kabba and his team, last week conducted a two-day familiarisation tour of three mining companies in the southern and eastern districts of the country, to discuss mining operations.Humanitarian Effects of Environmental Degradation on Peace and Security: Open VTC September 16, 2020 | What's in Blue Security Council members plan to hold a ministerial-level open debate in videoconference (VTC) format on the humanitarian effects of environmental degradation on peace and security.September 15, 2020 | Homeland Security Today The Department of States (State) says armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to commit severe human rights abuses and to profit from the mining and trading of “conflict…Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Politics of Water: Difficult Talks Continue on Africa's Largest Dam [Video] September 14, 2020 | France 24 As Africa's largest hydroelectric dam nears completion, there are fears that Ethiopia will control too much of north-east Africa's water.Climate Change: New CGIAR Climate Security Explorer September 11, 2020 | Planetary Security Initiative The Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is a global research partnership with the aim to guarantee future food security, and is dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural…September 11, 2020 | Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times Mexico’s water wars have turned deadly.September 10, 2020 | UN Women UN Women and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have announced a new collaboration that would aim to protect women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region from the COVID-19 pandemic’s multiple negative consequences on…Myanmar: Jade Prices in Myanmar Halve as Demand Dwindles amid COVID-19 September 9, 2020 | Salai Tun Tun, Myanmar Times Jades sales have taken a hit as a result of poor demand from China in the wake of COVID-19 and prices of the green mineral have halved in recent months, local gems traders…Climate Change: The Links between Climate and Security in the Sahel September 8, 2020 | Mark Leon Goldberg, UN The Sahel region of Africa is routinely cited by the United Nations as one of the regions in the world that is most vulnerable to climate change.Book Launch: Why Women Leading the Climate Movement are Underappreciated and Sometimes Invisible September 5, 2020 | Ilana Cohen, Inside Climate News The American scientist Eunice Newton Foote theorized in 1856 that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could produce global warming three years before similar work by the Irish physicist John Tyndall, whose research on warming is often…South Africa: Clash between Farmer and Land Invaders in Karino September 5, 2020 | Buks Viljoen, Lowvelder In yet another land grab in the Lowveld, Hendrik Brink was one of the farmers who, over the past two months, fell victim to land-grabbers who invaded a couple of farms in the…Colombia: Criminal Gangs in Colombia Cut down Tress to Grow Coca, 8 Arrested [Video] September 5, 2020 | WION Criminals in Colombia cut down tress to grow Coca. Large part of Natural parks lost to deforestation. 248 hectares of deforestation land recoverd so far. Colombia launches operations to hunt down criminals.Myanmar: China Dominates Bidding for Myanmar Solar Power Plants September 3, 2020 | Yuichi Nitta, Nikkei Asian Review Myanmar is expected to announce the winners of tenders for a raft of solar power plants ahead of general elections in November and following a process whose onerous conditions threw obstacles in front… |
Blogs & OpinionIn the last two weeks, 8 blogs & opinion pieces on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. Analyzing the Climate Security Threat: Key Actions for the US Intelligence Community January 26, 2021 | Erin Sikorsky President Joe Biden’s national security adviser has called climate change an urgent national security priority. Yet, as the person who recently led climate analysis across the U. S.The Third Wave of Environmental Peacebuilding January 26, 2021 | Richard Matthew and Tobias Ide For most of 2020, news, politics, policy, and research in the United States and abroad were dominated by the challenges posed by COVID-19, a rapidly unfolding global pandemic unprecedented in scale and cost.Negotiating Peace in Iraq’s Disputed Territories: Modifying the Sinjar Agreement January 24, 2021 | Shamiran Mako On Oct.Report Finds that Russia Securitises the Environment – but on Its Terms January 24, 2021 | Nina Lesikhina and Doug Weir International attention on environmental security has increased markedly during the last decade, especially within the UN’s Security Council, General Assembly and its Environment Assembly.Good Reads: Rare Earths and Conflict Across Scale January 24, 2021 | Stacy D. VanDeveer Rare earths metals made a lot of news over the last decade, after most of us spent years forgetting what we once learned their names on the periodic table.How We Misunderstand the Magnitude of Climate Risks – and Why That Contributes to Controversy January 24, 2021 | Peter Schwartzstein The Syrian civil war has raged for almost a decade now, and in the climate security community it can feel as if we’ve spent at least that long arguing about its causes.Canada Must Clarify Its Policies on Conflict and the Environment January 18, 2021 | Conflict and Environment Observatory Our study into Canada’s practice used the draft legal principles developed by the UN’s International Law Commission (ILC) on the Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts (PERAC) as a benchmark for the assessment.…Climatizing Security: Protecting Americans in the Age of Climate Change January 18, 2021 | Sherri Goodman and Kate Guy Beyond the recent attack on the U. S. Capitol and the coronavirus looms the climate crisis. |
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Compiled by Rosabella Bojin, Amber Bosse, Elen Bueno, Alex Caplan, Maya Cohen, Claire Doyle, Bay Hanson, Desirée De Haven, Liz Hessami, Andrew Light, Marie Mavrikios, Charly McConaghy, Rachel Mural, Anna Rossi, Tracy Stein, Rachel Stern, and Rachel Stromsta |
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