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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #276 – August 6, 2024 |
AnnouncementsPakistan: Action Against Hunger Is Helping Women in Pakistan Grow Saline Tolerant Crops Gabby Lozano, Food Tank Action Against Hunger (ACF), an international humanitarian organization, is helping women in Sindh, Pakistan become self-sufficient by teaching them how to grow saline tolerant crops.Middle East: Water Wars? Devastating Shortages Will Fuel MidEast Conflicts for 25 yrs – Report RT In a worrying global trend, the Middle East is set for a record water shortage to strike over the next 25 years. |
EventsFor more upcoming events on environmental peacebuilding, please visit our online calendar of events. Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding Training September 30, 2024 - 2024-10-04 Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva Water Hub, and Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia Ljubljana, Slovenia The Geneva Water Hub and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia have joined forces to develop a training course on “Environmental Peacebuilding” which will take place in…Consultation on Urban Environmental Peacebuilding September 26, 2024 Environmental Peacebuilding Association online Despite the obvious impacts of environmental and climate change on cities – and cities being important actors in climate mitigation and adaptation – the environmental peacebuilding literature has yet to engage with urbanity…Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution Program August 12, 2024 - 2024-08-16 University of Eastern Finland Joensuuu, Finland The course will address environmental and natural resource conflicts that are familiar and topical for the course participants. |
LibraryIn the last two weeks, 13 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. Here is a sampling of the new additions: The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance January 1, 2024 | Simon Bornschier and Manuel Vogt Natural resource exploitation often generates negative externalities and fuels social conflict. Yet, patterns of social resistance against mining differ considerably within and across countries.January 1, 2024 | Anshuman Behera and Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan This book critically examines various facets of conflicts involving people and the state arising due to the uneven distribution of natural resources.January 1, 2024 | Lily Schlieman, Maryruth Belsey Priebe, Charity Borg, Anny Barlow, and Tevvi Bullock The Coral Triangle is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity and provides food security to over 130 million people living in and around the region.January 1, 2024 | Maryruth Belsey Priebe and Tevvi Bullock With the growing frequency, intensity, and severity of climate crisis events and disasters, defense and security institutions will be increasingly called upon to provide humanitarian aid and disaster relief (HA/DR), and to mitigate… |
JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pakistan Had Buried the Nuclear Waste in Helmand and Kandahar October 9, 2012 | Sobah 8 Experts from environment are saying that the government of Pakistan, after testing a nuclear bomb in Baluchistan in the 1999-2001, at the time of the Taliban rule in Afghanistan buried the nuclear waste… |
Blogs & OpinionIn the last two weeks, 19 blogs & opinion pieces on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. Here is a sampling: Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pakistan 'Dumped Nuclear Waste' April 1, 2008 | Martin Vennard , BBC News The Afghan government says it has evidence that nuclear waste from Pakistan was dumped in Afghanistan during the reign of the Taleban.Ukraine/Russia: Controlling Water: A Recurring War Tactic in Russo-Ukrainian War Dipti Yadav, India Today Weaponising basic resources such as water has always had a far-reaching effect in the history of wars ever fought.2022 Women Building Peace Award Finalists USIP The Women Building Peace Award is given each year to a woman peacebuilder who has made a major contribution to preventing conflict, combatting violence and building peace in her country or region.South Sudan: South Sudan Turns to Tourism in Bid to Draw Line under Past Unrest Sam Mednick, Guardian As South Sudan slowly emerges from conflict, with a fragile peace deal signed last September, it is looking to diversify revenues instead of relying almost entirely on oil.Liberia: Liberia Passes New Licensing Law Barry Morgan, Upstream Liberian President George Weah has signed into law the amended Petroleum Act of 2019, enabling the government and the National Oil of Liberia to proceed with promotion of available acreage to potential.Tim Anderson, Register Fairphone, whose devices are designed to be sustainable and made in exploitation-free factories, will kick out its third unit in mid-September, priced at €450. 00 including VAT.South Sudan: You (Yes, You) Can Help Scientists Identify Wildlife In South Sudan Christine Ro, Forbes Zooniverse bills itself as the largest citizen science website, with projects open to anyone regardless of educational background. |
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Compiled by Buket Altınçelep, Jennah Colborn, Bryan Fok, Carrie Hanks, Liz Hessami, Aianna Siembab, Avery Thau, Cecilia Thomsak, Milen Yishak, and Julie Yoon |
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