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Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace | |
Issue #19 – September 30, 2014 |
New Library ResourcesIn the last two weeks, 31 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. Here is a sampling of the new additions: Environmental Migration and Labor Markets in Nepal January 1, 2014 | Jean-Francois Maystadt, Valerie Mueller, Ashwini Sebastian While an emerging literature cites weather shocks as major determinants of migration, scant evidence exists on how such migration impacts the labor markets of receiving communities in developing countries.January 1, 2014 | Shlomi Dinar, David Katz, Lucia De Stefano, Brian Blankespoor Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability.Big Spenders: Swiss Trading Companies, African Oil and the Risks of Opacity January 1, 2014 | Alexandra Gillies, Marc Guéniat, and Lorenz Kummer The sale of crude oil by governments and their national oil companies (NOCs) is one of the least scrutinized aspects of oil sector governance.January 1, 2014 | Evan Hoffman The ongoing conflict in Myanmar between the government and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) is one of the longest-running in the world. |
International NewsIn the last two weeks, 75 international news items on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. Following is a sampling: South Sudan: Document: South Sudan Govt Seeks to Silence Famine Warnings August 5, 2014 | Radio Tamazuj South Sudan’s government has issued an advisory to humanitarian organizations not to publish independent statements on the food and nutrition situation in the country without “political endorsement” by the country’s presidency.South China Sea/Vietnam: Vietnam Orders Fishing Boats to be Armed with Machine Guns August 5, 2014 | Want China Times The Vietnamese government has issued an order stipulating that boats under the jurisdiction of the country's fishery law enforcement command should be equipped with weapons, reported the state-run Global Times Aug.South China Sea: China Can Build What It Wants On S.China Sea Isles, Says Official August 4, 2014 | Malaysian Digest BEIJING: China can build whatever it wants on its islands in the South China Sea, a senior Chinese official said today, rejecting proposals ahead of a key regional meeting to freeze any activity…Conflict Minerals: Gold Chains August 4, 2014 | Mark Hay, The New Yorker A little-known provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires companies using gold, tantalum, tin, and tungsten to file reports that disclose the origins of the metals with the…Iraq: Iraq's Islamist Insurgency Puts Its Southern Oil in the Spotlight August 4, 2014 | Rania El Gamal, Reuters DUBAI, August 4 (Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni Islamist insurgency, crippling further its dream to match the oil power of Saudi Arabia, makes oilfields in the safer south more vital, but even that region…Iraq/Kurdistan: ISIS Takes Over Iraq’s Biggest Dam August 3, 2014 | Al Arabiya News Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took over Iraq's biggest dam unopposed by Kurdish fighters, who also lost three towns and an oilfield on Sunday to the Sunni militant…August 3, 2014 | Standard Digital Amani coalition leader Musalia Mudavadi says land grabbing in Lamu could be behind the recent insecurity cases in Lamu county.South Sudan: South Sudan Conflict Drives Idea of Oil Wealth Monitoring August 1, 2014 | Drazen Jorgic and Edmund Blair, Reuters South Sudan's oil fields have become a battleground in the struggle for power in Africa's newest nation, encouraging Western nations and regional mediators to consider international monitoring of crude revenues as a way…Kurdistan: Kurdish Oil Production Seen Doubling Next Year by Goldman Sachs July 30, 2014 | Grant Smith and Claudia Carpenter, Bloomberg Businessweek Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurds, sparring with the nation’s central government over their right to export crude, may almost double oil production next year and triple it this decade, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said.Liberia: RIA Land Deed Backfires - Land Owners Threaten to Sue GOL July 30, 2014 | AllAfrica Monrovia — Lawyers representing the legal interest of residents of the Roberts International Airport area said they would sue over President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's granting of a land deed to the RIA for… |
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Compiled by Jonny Beirne, Marisa Garcia, Foley Pfalzgraf, and Joel Young |
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