Blogs & Opinions


The Health-Climate-Security Triad

Jan 31, 2025 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Editorials
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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…