Blogs & Opinions
The Health-Climate-Security Triad
Jan 31, 2025
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J. Stephen Morrison and Katherine E. Bliss
Imperiled health is the human face of climate change. Indeed, the climate crisis is increasingly recognized to be a health crisis. It is a crisis…
Afghanistan’s Untapped Mineral Wealth: A Lost Opportunity or a Path to Stability?
Jan 29, 2025
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Amu TV
Under the Taliban’s current regime, Afghanistan faces an unprecedented erosion of civil freedoms, especially for women. Deprived of their fundamental rights to education, work, and…
Beyond Genocide—Sudan's Overlooked Climate and Health Catastrophe
Jan 22, 2025
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Thurka Sangaramoorthy
The United States' declaration of genocide in Sudan marked a crucial moment of recognition. While this designation appropriately highlighted the deliberate targeting of civilians by…
Why We Need to Start Talking about the Relationship between Climate Change and Security
Jan 22, 2025
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Alice Ruhweza and Eric White
Climate change and the degradation of nature are no longer abstract concepts. They are occurring at pace and reshaping our world; as they do so…
We Must Embrace Complexity to Tackle Climate Change, Conflict and Environmental Degradation
Jan 19, 2025
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Camille Laville and Alice Gore
Climate change and conflict are inextricably linked – yet solutions rarely address the multifaceted nature of these complex, intractable problems. The authors' ongoing research in…
Possibilities for Creating Modern Strategies for Environmental Protection during Armed Conflicts According to International Mechanisms
Jan 16, 2025
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Anita Cucovic and Zyhdi Hajzeri
The protection of the environment during armed conflicts is one of the most important issues that affects the interests of the international community and affects…
What Mercenaries Can Teach Us about Climate-Fuelled Disaster Responses
Jan 15, 2025
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Isabelle Bond
The devastating fires in Southern California, many of which are still burning out of control, have exposed a controversial and increasingly attractive disaster response alternative…
An Opportunity for New Climate Finance Innovations to Expand Energy Access in Fragile Countries
Jan 13, 2025
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Energy Peace Partners
EPP developed the Peace Renewable Energy Credit (P-REC) as a solution for corporate clean energy buyers to support high-impact renewable energy generation and expand energy…
Classic Geopolitics and Today’s Nexus of Conflict and Climate
Jan 13, 2025
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Gerard Toal
From the outset, geopolitics was about exploiting the Earth. Great power competition was a struggle for space, as well as for strategic locations, resources, and…
Restitution of Lands and Territories to Victims of Violent Dispossession and Displacement in Colombia
Jan 9, 2025
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Lucía Vásquez Celis
Forced displacement in Colombia has a differentiated and accentuated impact on women, the ethnic and peasant population, as well as children and adolescents. Frequently, this…
Beyond ‘Critical’ Minerals, Don’t Forget Gold’s Role as a Driver of Economic Growth — and Conflict
Jan 9, 2025
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Brad Brooks-Rubin
In 2025, consumers and global policy analysts could be forgiven for thinking that all that glitters is…cobalt or lithium. With the intense focus of governments,…
Why Is Afghanistan Part of the Great Extractives Race?
Jan 8, 2025
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Mercena Hunter and Paddy Ginn
Afghanistan’s mineral resources harbour great untapped potential. The country sits on an estimated 2.2 billion tonnes of iron ore, 60 million tonnes of copper, 183…
Water Tensions under the Taliban
Jan 8, 2025
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Ali Mahaqi
Since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban regime has faced escalating tensions with neighbouring countries, particularly over water issues and regional security. The…
Towards a Climate Security Observatory 2.0: Lessons from a Year of Implementation
Jan 7, 2025
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CGIAR
In 2023, the Climate Security Observatory (CSO) launched its first public version, aiming to bridge the gap between climate science and resilient peace. After a…
The Traumas of Unplanned Decarbonization in Fragile States
Jan 6, 2025
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Alex de Waal and Aditya Sarkar
It is widely recognized that oil states are rarely democratic, and often conflict-prone. As these governments wind down their dependence on this toxic resource as…
National Border Security and Environmental Sustainability
Jan 3, 2025
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Saleem H. Ali
While border security has become one of the most divisive issues of our times, there is an opportunity for both sides of the partisan divide…
Abyei-Twic Conflict: Unresolved Issues and Unheeded Recommendations
Dec 29, 2024
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Morris Kuol Yoll
The root cause of the conflict is a land dispute. The Abyei Administration Area has created and adopted the “Abyei Box” map, which crosses the…
How International Conflicts and Wars Threaten Animals and the Natural World
Dec 28, 2024
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Kimberly Moore
War and conflict not only devastate human lives but also inflict catastrophic harm on animals and the natural world, threatening biodiversity, ecosystems, and the planet’s…
Peace through Shared Challenges: Climate Change in the Middle East
Dec 20, 2024
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Tareq Abu Hamed
Nature knows no borders. Today, Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, and people across the region are facing a more unpredictable climate that threatens natural resources. The region’s…
Liberia: Alliance for Rural Democracy Leads Customary Land Rights Initiative for Affected Communities in SRC and LAC
Dec 19, 2024
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FrontPage Africa
In an effort to address longstanding land ownership issues, the Alliance for Rural Democracy is leading five communities affected by the operations of the Salala…
Why Africa’s Voice on Climate and Conflict Matters More Than Ever
Dec 19, 2024
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Nazanine Moshiri and Liesl Louw-Vaudran
African climate negotiators at the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan have delivered a clear and urgent message – climate diplomacy must hold steady amid escalating global crises,…
Reflections on COP29: What Price Do We Put on Peace and Security?
Dec 18, 2024
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Ellie Kinney
In many ways, peace and security had never enjoyed a higher profile than they did at COP29 in Baku and yet developed countries failed fragile…
Environmental Violence in Peace Research: A Gap and Opportunity
Dec 18, 2024
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Richard Marcantonio
Peace studies as a field of research has historically overlooked critical aspects of the environment in conflict, though scholars in adjacent fields have long highlighted…
For Humanitarians, Climate and Conflict Are Becoming Harder to Separate
Dec 16, 2024
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Will Worley
From flooding in refugee camps in Sudan, to militants in Somalia controlling scarce water, the intersection of climate and conflict is an increasingly important challenge for…
Greenwashing NATO
Dec 13, 2024
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Tamara Lorincz
At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s recent Parliamentary Assembly meeting in Montréal, officials from the allied states welcomed the establishment of the new Climate Change and Security…
A Livestock-Centred Strategy Will Ensure Peace, Development in North West
Dec 11, 2024
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Junaidu Maina
Investing in the improvement of the large livestock population and the numerous grazing reserves in the North West holds immense potential for restoring peace, advancing…
Peace and Security at COP29
Dec 9, 2024
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Noah Fritzhand and Anna Spear
In November, Azerbaijan hosted the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29). The event’s start was marked by…
The Syrian Civil War Showed How Complicated the Climate Change-Conflict Connection Can Be
Dec 9, 2024
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Dave Levitan
Triumphant rebels now control Damascus, a quick and stunning turn in the 13-year-old Syrian civil war that has seen the Bashar al-Assad regime fall and its…
Cooperation and Conflict in a Changing Climate
Dec 7, 2024
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Juha Uitto
If there are two issues to call the defining challenges of our time, they’d be climate change and the degradation of natural resources and the…
Empowering Women Peacebuilders
Dec 6, 2024
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Editorials
Editorials
After the United States assumed the presidency of the Security Council for December, its first signature event focused on the role of women in peace…