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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #80 – January 31, 2017 |
EventsFor more upcoming events on environmental peacebuilding, please visit our online calendar of events. NDEL 2017 Conference: Environment, National Security & Human Rights February 24, 2017 - 2017-02-25 Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies New Haven, CT Join NDEL to explore the intersections of environment, state security, and human lives and livelihoods.February 22, 2017 - 2017-02-25 International Studies Association Baltimore, MD The International Studies Association Annual Convention includes many sessions and other events related to environmental peacebuilding.Refugees and Access to Water Public Conference February 3, 2017 Geneva Water Hub Geneva, Switzerland The Conference on “Refugees and Access to Water” will present the results of the Geneva Water Hub Think Tank Roundtable on the “Water and Refugees: Challenges and Responses”. |
LibraryIn the last two weeks, 24 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. Here is a sampling of the new additions: The Curse of Oil in Iraqi Kurdistan January 1, 2017 | Erin Banco A region once held up by the US as a beacon of hope in a broken Iraq, Kurdistan has instead — in oil’s name — fallen victim to corruption and war.Water Insecurity in the Indus Basin: The Costs of Noncooperation January 1, 2017 | Ashok Swain The world is encountering an era in which new threats and opportunities abound.Research Methods for Exploring the Links between Climate Change and Conflict January 1, 2017 | Tobias Ide The potential links between climate change and conflict have received much attention in recent years, but there is little consensus on the issue in the relevant literature.Land Grabbing, Local Contestation, and the Struggle for Economic Gain January 1, 2017 | Frankline Anum Ndi This article examines why peasant communities in South West Cameroon have contested a U. S. -based company’s intentions to establish an agro-industrial palm oil plantation in their region.Linking Water and Climate Diplomacy January 1, 2016 | Sabine Blumstein, Benjamin Pohl, and Dennis Tänzler Climate change poses numerous challenges for international river basins that are likely to intensify in the decades to come. These challenges will have significant socio-economic and political repercussions.Critical Geopolitics and School Textbooks: The Case of Environment-Conflict Links in Germany January 1, 2016 | Tobias Ide This study explores the conceptual and empirical utility of studying school textbooks from a critical geopolitics perspective.Securing Forests for Peace and Development in Postconflict Liberia January 1, 2016 | Michael D. Beevers Peacebuilding assumes that security and development foster the necessary conditions for a sustainable peace. No place is the coupling of security and development more evident than in postconflict natural resource governance.Consequences of the Niger Delta Amnesty Implementation on Nigeria's Upstream Petroleum Industry January 1, 2016 | Chisomaga Ihediohanma Ezeocha The Niger Delta militancy ravaged the Nigerian upstream petroleum sector between 2004-2009, bringing it to a standstill.International Water Rights on the White Nile of the New State of South Sudan January 1, 2016 | Andreas K. Wendl The birth of South Sudan falls directly in the demarcation zone of the rivalry between downstream and upstream riparian states on the waters of the Nile River. |
JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. South Sudan: Technical Expert/Agricultural Advisor January 27, 2017 | International Organization for Migration IOM is responsible for Camp Coordination and Camp Management in the Bentiu Protection of Civilian (PoC) site.Jordan: MENA Regional WASH Advisor January 27, 2017 | Oxfam GB In MENA Region, Oxfam works in development, humanitarian, and campaigning, with a large part of the current transformation focused on a more joined-up approach by following the LRRD approach that focuses on supporting…Central African Republic: Director of Programs January 27, 2017 | Mercy Corps Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible.DRC: Resilience and Peacebuilding Landscape Assessment January 27, 2017 | Search for Common Ground Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is an international non-profit organization that promotes peaceful transformation of conflict.Israel: Program Manager I - Program Quality Manager January 27, 2017 | Catholic Relief Services Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas.January 27, 2017 | Chemonics Chemonics seeks a chief of party for the anticipated five year USAID Energy and Natural Resources Development Support program in Kabul, Afghanistan. |
International NewsIn the last two weeks, 24 international news items on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. The following is a sampling: DRC: Bribe to Congolese Officials Revealed in US Corruption Case September 30, 2016 | Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail The cellphone message from the Israeli businessman was blunt and vulgar: The Canadian mining company must be “screwed and finished totally,” he told an associate as they negotiated a massive bribe to Congolese…India/Pakistan: Why the India-Pakistan War over Water is So Dangerous September 30, 2016 | Michael Kugelman, Foreign Policy Early on the morning of Sept. 29, according to India’s Defense Ministry and military, Indian forces staged a “surgical strike” in Pakistan-administered Kashmir that targeted seven terrorist camps and killed multiple militants.September 30, 2016 | Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post The world’s soaring demand for cobalt is at times met by workers, including children, who labor in harsh and dangerous conditions.Conflict Minerals: 'Blood Diamond' Suspect Dies in Belgian Prison September 29, 2016 | Agence France-Presse A US-Belgian businessman accused of enslavement and diamond trafficking during Sierra Leone's civil war has died in a Brussels prison, officials said on Thursday.India/Pakistan: Are India and Pakistan on the Brink of a Water War? September 27, 2016 | Amanda Hoover, Christian Science Monitor Rising tensions between India and Pakistan could spike into a “water war” if India fails to follow through on a treaty that regulates a river that flows between the two countries, a Pakistani…Conflict Minerals: What it Takes to Make a Conflict-Free Smartphone September 26, 2016 | Thomas Wilson, Bloomberg On a moonscaped rise in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of men and women carve a heavy, off-white mineral away from the hillside with pickaxes, then wash it with shovels in man-made…Timor-Leste: Global Court Agrees to Take up Timor, Australia Sea Border Row September 26, 2016 | ABC News An international arbitration court has agreed to take up a decade-long border dispute between Australia and East Timor over territory in the Timor Sea that contains large oil and gas deposits worth an…Colombia: Colombia Peace Deal to Usher in Rural Reform but Land Conflicts Feared, Experts Say September 23, 2016 | Anastasia Moloney, Reuters Conflicts over land in Colombia are likely to increase following a peace deal to end half a century of war as once no-go areas in the Andean country open up for business and… |
Blogs & OpinionIn the last two weeks, 8 blogs & opinion pieces on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. Here is a sampling: January 27, 2017 | Eugene Kiely President Donald Trump claimed that the Islamic State, or ISIS, would not exist if the U. S. “kept the oil when we got out” of Iraq.Food Security: How Drought and Rising Prices Led to Conflict in Syria January 26, 2017 | Aled Jones But what [Charlotte Church] said was correct – and there will be an increasing convergence of climate, food, economic and political crises in the coming years and decades.Conflict Minerals in 2017 – What’s New? January 25, 2017 | Dynda A. Thomas It’s January 2017, and some believe it will be the last year for the SECs conflict minerals rule.Famine Isn't Just a Result of Conflict—It's a Cause January 25, 2017 | Justa Hopma The relationship between food insecurity and conflict is almost so logical that it appears to state the obvious: Conditions of food insecurity contribute to the outbreak of social, political and military conflict, which…January 25, 2017 | Jack Watling Baghdad’s control of Iraq’s provinces is, in part, based on its custodianship of the country’s petrodollars, with the oil sector contributing up to 99 percent of government revenue.Water Wars: Hedging Bets in the South China Sea January 20, 2017 | Chris Mirasola Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe followed last week’s trip to Manila with a busy schedule of state visits to Canberra, Jakarta, and Hanoi reaffirming Japan’s role in regional politics. |
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Compiled by Pierre Gaunaurd, Liz Hessami, Britt Sheinbaum, Sofia Soto Reyes, Annabelle Vinois, and Erin Wenk |
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