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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #105 – January 16, 2018 |
AnnouncementsShare the Forthcoming MOOC with Your Classes or Academic Networks! January 16, 2018 Many members of our Community of Practice are involved with universities – either as students, professors, or affiliates. |
EventsFor more upcoming events on environmental peacebuilding, please visit our online calendar of events. April 10, 2018 - 2018-04-14 American Association of Geographers New Orleans, LA Join the Association of American Geographers at the AAG Annual Meeting in for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience.Fifth Al-Moumin Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding – Ken Conca and Geoff Dabelko January 30, 2018 American University, ELI, and UN Environment Washington, DC Fifteen years ago, Ken Conca and Geoff Dabelko published Environmental Peacemaking, a rejoinder to grim scenarios foreseeing environmental change as a driver of conflict.Sustaining Peace I: The Role of Conflict-Sensitive Natural Resource Management Approaches January 23, 2018 Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Online This webinar will examine the linkages between natural resource management, investment in resilient agricultural livelihoods and contributions to peacebuilding and sustaining peace. |
LibraryIn the last two weeks, 32 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. Here is a sampling of the new additions: South Sudan's Renewable Energy Potential: A Building Block for Peace January 1, 2018 | David Mozersky and Daniel M. Kammen The world’s newest country, South Sudan, is also the least electrified.The Pastoral Conflict Takes a Deadlier Turn January 1, 2018 The escalation in the pastoral conflict between nomadic cattle rearers, who are mainly of the Fulani ethnic group, and farmers from various ethnic groups indigenous to Nigeria’s Middle-Belt has led to the large…Best of: Planetary Security Conference 2017 and The Hague Declaration [Video] January 1, 2018 This Best Of video features highlights of the Planetary Security Conference 2017, that took place in The Hague from 12-13 December 2017.Warfare and Wildlife Declines in Africa’s Protected Areas January 1, 2018 | Joshua H. Daskin and Robert M. Pringle Large-mammal populations are ecological linchpins, and their worldwide decline and extinction disrupts many ecosystem functions and services.January 1, 2017 | Anthony J. Regan The 50-year relationship between large-scale mining (LSM) and locallevel politics in Bougainville has been complex and fraught.January 1, 2017 | Malayna Raftopoulos This opening contribution to ‘Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America’ analyses how human rights have emerged as a weapon in the political battleground over the environment as natural resource extraction…Oil and Civil Conflict: On and Off (Shore) January 1, 2017 | Jørgen Juel Andersen, Frode Martin Nordvik, and Andrea Tesei We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources.January 1, 2017 | James Cust and David Mihalyi Every year there are major discoveries of oil and gas deposits around the world. Government officials and citizens alike are jubilant, anticipating the prosperity these discoveries herald.Analysis on Driving Effect of the Urbanization Development Speed on Water Resources Conflict January 1, 2017 | Xiaoyuan Wu, Changxin Xu, and Qinghua Pang This paper aims to research the driving effect of the urbanization development speed on water resources conflict by building the risk stress coupling analysis model of urbanization development speed and water conflict.January 1, 2017 | Katie Peters Every day, people around the world lose their lives and livelihoods as a result of natural hazard-related disasters.January 1, 2017 | Abrahm Lustgarten It was a secret wartime project, with a code name and an urgent mission: develop a more powerful bomb, one that could be mass produced in time to fend off the German forces ravaging… |
JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. January 23, 2018 | Concern Worldwide Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to tackling poverty and suffering in the world’s poorest countries.South Sudan: Wash and Infrastructure Technical Coordinator January 15, 2018 | 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…January 15, 2018 | Oxfam Oxfam works with local stakeholders to find lasting solutions to the root causes which keep people in poverty.January 10, 2018 | Norwegian Refugee Council The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people.January 10, 2018 | RCS Global In its 10th year of operation, RCS Global is one of the world’s leading supply chain due diligence advisory and auditing firms.Nigeria: Food Security Program Manager January 10, 2018 | Cooperazione Internazionale COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale is a humanitarian, non-confessional and independent organization founded in 1965 in Milan, Italy.January 10, 2018 | Solidarités International The SI mission has been opened in February 2017, with emphasis on the Mosul response. |
International NewsIn the last two weeks, 36 international news items on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. The following is a sampling: Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi VP Warns of 'Civil War' over Kurdish-Held Kirkuk October 9, 2017 | Associated Press Iraqi Vice President Ayad Allawi warned on Monday there could be a "civil war" over the Kurdish-administered city of Kirkuk if talks over Kurdish independence are left unresolved.Myanmar: Value of Seized Illegal Timber Rising Yearly October 6, 2017 | Su Phyo Win, Myanmar TImes The value of illegal timber seized by the government over the past five years have grown exponentially, according to latest government data, raising fears of massive unabated illegal logging in the country’s fast…Colombia: 'There Is No Peace Here': Afro-Indigenous on Colombia October 5, 2017 | teleSUR Ensuring lasting peace means “protecting Afro-Colombian and Indigenous peoples' territorial and other collective rights,” said Charo Mina-Rojas.New Study: Clear Land Rights in Developing World Could Avoid Costly Disputes October 3, 2017 | Astrid Zweynert, Christian Science Monitor More than half of land rights conflicts in the developing world have not been resolved, pitting companies, governments, and businesses against indigenous communities, researchers said on Tuesday.Myanmar: Ex-Ministers, Armed Groups Operate Farms in Kachin’s Conflict Areas October 3, 2017 | Moe Myint, Irrawaddy When clashes erupted along the Waingmaw-Laiza highway in 2011 and 2012, villagers fled their homes and farms and have still not returned as the two armies fight over territory.Iran/Iraq/Kurdistan: Iran Bans Fuel Trade with Kurds after 'Yes' Vote in Independence Referendum October 2, 2017 | France 24 International pressure mounted on Iraqi Kurdistan Saturday after its controversial independence "yes" vote, with neighbouring Iran announcing joint border drills with Iraq and banning fuel trade with the autonomous region.Myanmar: FIDH Report Warns of “Potential Land Conflict Epidemic” September 29, 2017 | Su Phyo Win, Myanmar Times Myanmar may soon face a land conflict epidemic as a result of the growing influx of investments and the subsequent demand for land, unless the laws and policies that adequately address land-rights issues…Myanmar: Loans to Boost Farm Productivity September 28, 2017 | Htoo Thant, Myanmar Times Farmers throughout the country can avail of loans from the government to boost their productivity, U Sein Hla Tun, the general manager of the Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank (MADB), said Wednesday.Myanmar: Government Will Take over Burned Myanmar Land: Minister September 27, 2017 | Simon Lewis, Reuters Myanmar’s government will manage the redevelopment of villages torched during violence in Rakhine state that has sent nearly half a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, a minister was reported on Wednesday as…Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Could Soon Deploy Troops in Disputed Oil-Rich Kirkuk September 27, 2017 | Tsvetana Paraskova, Oilprice.com Following Kurdistan’s referendum on independence that the central Iraqi government is vehemently opposing, Iraq’s Parliament has given “mandate” to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to send troops to the disputed oil-rich region of Kirkuk,…Liberia: Two Presidential Candidates Clash over Land Reform Issue September 26, 2017 | New Dawn During a presidential debate held by Ducor Debate in Tubmanburg, Bomi County over the weekend, Oscar Xperience presidential candidate Sen. |
Blogs & OpinionIn the last two weeks, 8 blogs & opinion pieces on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. Here is a sampling: China Is Stealthily Waging a Water War January 15, 2018 | Brahma Chellaney While international attention remains on China's recidivist activities in the South China Sea's disputed waters, Beijing is also focusing quietly on other waters – of rivers that originate in Chinese-controlled territory such as…Gas Wars: The First Energy Conflict in 2018 January 12, 2018 | ZeroHerge The eastern Mediterranean is expected to witness the first conflict of 2018, as developments at the end of 2017 are signaling worsening relationships between Turkey and the Greek Cypriot-Greece-Israel-Egypt bloc.Nuclear Fusion Is Coming, but Will It Power Peace or War? January 12, 2018 | John Draper and Peerasit Kamnuansilpa Last month, the European Union-hosted International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) announced it was halfway to completing initial operation, meaning it will begin testing of fusion power generation around 2035.Chocó at Epicenter of Colombia’s Social, Environmental Conflicts January 12, 2018 | Maximo Anderson One wet November morning deep within Colombia’s western rainforest of Chocó, rebel fighters of the National Liberation Army (ELN) scattered across a muddy football pitch in groups of eight to practice their daily drills.…Creating New Tools for the Job January 3, 2018 | Lydia Cardona Headlines about scarce natural resources driving or causing conflicts are not hard to find. |
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Compiled by Sonia Ahmad, Anam Ahmed, Kelly Bridges, Trevor Dolan, Luis Pérez Espinosa, Liz Foster, Nina Hamilton, Liz Hessami, Jiameizi Jia, Jessica Lis, Sarita Ruiz Morato, Anya Raadam, Clementine Sraha, Emma Tulley, and Erin Wenk |
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