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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #211 – February 8, 2022 |
AnnouncementsBrief Debrief from the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding February 8, 2022 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies From February 1 to 4, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx™) and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) convened the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.February 7, 2022 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association The Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding featured 77 roundtables, panels, and other sessions. Most of those sessions were recorded and posted on the EnPAx YouTube channel:https://www. youtube. com/playlist? |
EventsFor more upcoming events on environmental peacebuilding, please visit our online calendar of events. Climate Sensitive Programming for Sustaining Peace March 9, 2022 - 2022-04-06 United Nations System Staff College and adelphi online This five-week course equips participants with the tools to conduct localized climate risk assessments and integrate them into programmatic planning throughout the stages of a peacebuilding programme life-cycle (from early warning and response to…Security, Insecurity and the Anthropocene February 15, 2022 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute online Fifty years on from the Stockholm Conference - the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - we find ourselves in a world marked by profound, accelerating and possibly irreversible environmental change. |
LibraryIn the last two weeks, 3 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. The Environmental Defenders (9th Episode in Podcast Series "Olive Shoot") [Audio] January 1, 2022 For many of us, taking action to protect the environment is challenging, but it’s not dangerous.The Meltdown on Environmental Justice (8th Episode in Podcast Series "Olive Shoot") [Audio] January 1, 2022 The Arctic is one of the most climate-affected areas on Earth, and it’s warming at a much faster rate than the rest of the world.January 1, 2021 | Victor Mackenhauer Olsen, Rasmus Fensholt, Pontus Olofsson, Rogerio Bonifacio, Van Butsic, Daniel Druce, Deepak Ray, and Alexander V. Prishchepov Armed conflicts often hinder food security through cropland abandonment and restrict the collection of on-the-ground information required for targeted relief distribution. |
JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. February 7, 2022 | UNDP The United Nations Development Programme is a United Nations organization tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.CAR: National Agronomist Expert (Cassava Production) February 7, 2022 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security.Niger: Regional Climate Project Manager February 7, 2022 | Enabel Enabel is the Belgian Development Agency. It executes the Belgian governmental cooperation. The Agency also implements actions for other national and international organisations.Somalia: Humanitarian-Development-Peace Triple Nexus Research February 7, 2022 | Oxfam Novib Conflicts and shocks linked to climate change are more frequent and intense, leading to poverty and inequality, exacerbating these phenomena and people’s vulnerability.Switzerland: Internship, Climate Action, Division of Resilience and Solution February 7, 2022 | UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is offering a full-time internship within the Office of the Special Advisor on Climate Action under the Division of Resilience and Solutions at UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.February 7, 2022 | Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as a company of the German Federal Government, has been supporting the implementation of development policy goals worldwide.January 23, 2022 | The Health Support Organisation The Health Support Organisation (THESO) is a leading 501 (3) (C) registered South Sudanese based international nongovernmental, non-profit organisation dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering in Low Middle Income Countries (LMICs). |
International NewsIn the last two weeks, 16 international news items on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. The following is a sampling: Ghana: Plan International Ghana Supports Vulnerable Rural Women with WISE Project October 16, 2021 | News Ghana Plan International Ghana through its project “Women’s Innovation for Sustainable Enterprise” (WISE), is organising series of activities to commemorate this year’s International Day of Rural Women.October 15, 2021 | Great Ozozoyin Female farmers in Taraba State have again expressed sadness at the way and manner they are often being relegated to the background in allocating lands for agricultural purposes.International Day Honours Rural Women’s Critical Role in Feeding the World October 15, 2021 | UN News Although rural women and girls have an essential role in food systems, they still do not have equal power with men, therefore earn less, and experience higher levels of food insecurity, according to UN Women, the agency…The Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment: 6 Things You Need to Know October 15, 2021 | UN On 8 October, loud and unusual applause reverberated around the chamber of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.In a Flashpoint South Sudanese Town, Women Peacemakers Try to Bridge the Divide October 14, 2021 | Natalia Ojewska More than 18 months into a power-sharing government between South Sudan’s rival leaders, local conflicts still simmer, undermining a fragile peace accord.North Macedonia: Women Agricultural Producers in North Macedonia Get Help to Grow Their Businesses October 13, 2021 | Mirage News Under a new measure achieved through gender-responsive budgeting, 250 women farmers received financial support to expand their businesses.Afghanistan: UN Chief Slams ‘Broken’ Taliban Promises Made to Women, Girls October 11, 2021 | Al Jazeera UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed the Taliban’s “broken” promises to Afghan women and girls, and urged the world to inject cash into Afghanistan in order to prevent its economic collapse.DRC: Hydro Project Set to Boost Green Credentials of Giant DRC Copper Complex October 8, 2021 | Marleny Arnoldi, Mining Weekly While Kamoa Copper, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is on track to become the second-largest copper mining complex globally, and the biggest in Africa, it is also poised to be among…Climate Change: Pentagon Climate Plan: Fighting Wars in Hotter, Harsher World October 8, 2021 | Ellen Knickmeyer, Japan Today A new Pentagon plan calls for incorporating the realities of a hotter, harsher Earth at every level in the U. S.Afghanistan: Meeting Former Afghan Fighters Who Now Hunt for Emeralds in Panjshir October 8, 2021 | Sayed Jalal Shajjan, TRT World After laying down their arms, a number of former soldiers with the Northern Alliance became involved in the only opportunity to make a living in the region: emerald mining. |
Blogs & OpinionIn the last two weeks, 6 blogs & opinion pieces on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. Environmental Peacebuilding Is Essential and Complex – but It’s Also Exciting February 4, 2022 | Carl Bruch Environmental peacebuilding remains a young field but is rapidly evolving.For National Security, Climate Finance Must Be Made 'Conflict-Proof' February 2, 2022 | Elsa Barron and Erin Sikorsky As the House takes up the America COMPETES Act of 2022, a comprehensive bill to promote innovation and economic competition with China, climate change is at the center of the discussion.Why International Geneva’s ‘Human Dimension’ Bodes Well for Environmental Peacebuilding February 2, 2022 | Annika Erickson-Pearson It’s a compound problem: areas with dwindling natural resources, harsh climate change impacts and biodiversity loss also tend to be those experiencing violent conflict.International Geneva Turns Focus to Nature and Peace January 31, 2022 | Michelle Langrand Nature and peace will be in the spotlight this week in Geneva as experts from around the world gather online for the International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.Paradise Imagined: Environmental Peace Education in Carceral Spaces January 30, 2022 | Elsa Barron Where does the material that makes up a tree come from?Gender, Climate Change, and Security: Missing Links January 26, 2022 | Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Michael E. Brown Gender issues, climate change, and security problems are interconnected in complex and powerful ways. Unfortunately, some of these connections have not received enough attention from scholars, policy analysts, and policymakers. |
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Compiled by Desirée De Haven, Liz Hessami, Dylan Mathewson, Marie Mavrikios, Chau Minh Do, Teresa Paterson, Diana Quevedo, Rachel Stern, Rachel Stromsta, Harriet Taberner, Yusraa Tadj, Diego Toledo, Joe Uprichard, Sarah Xu, and Leela Yadav |
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