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With Oil Exports Disrupted, What Lies Ahead for South Sudan?
Jun 12, 2024
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Alan Boswell and Edmund Yakani
In this episode of The Horn, Alan talks with Edmund Yakani, executive director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, about South Sudan's widening fiscal…
Colombia Land Invasion: Thousands Face Eviction for Illegal Occupation [Video]
Jun 12, 2024
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Al Jazeera
Wooden shacks cover the 378 hectares of the Santa Helena ranch, currently Colombia’s largest land invasion. In the past two months, about 7,000 families have…
Climate Change and Gender Roles: Women’s Active Role in Adaptation
Jun 12, 2024
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Sarah B. Barnes
“The success or failure of any adaptation strategy or action highly depends on the understanding of the capacities of a community or an individual to…
Tsavo's Guardians Get Lessons on Quelling Human-Wildlife Conflict
Jun 11, 2024
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Amos Kiarie
For years, cases of human-wildlife conflict have plagued the communities living around Tsavo National Park, primarily due to high human populations and incompatible land use…
30,000 Acres of Poppy Farms Demolished in N. Afghanistan
Jun 11, 2024
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Xinhua
Afghanistan's counter-narcotics police have wiped out over 30,000 acres of poppy farms in northern Badakhshan province over the past three months, a local official said…
USAID's Climate Strategy in Action: Colombian Youth Committed to Environmental Leadership and Conservation
Jun 11, 2024
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Andrea Arias and Sonia Borja
Colombia is home to 10 percent of the world’s biodiversity and has the eighth largest forest area globally. Its forests and wetlands not only sustain the…
Armenian Land Mines Prevent Peace with Azerbaijan
Jun 10, 2024
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Mordechai Kedar
US President Joe Biden dreams of peace in the South Caucasus. Unfortunately, due to the presence of land mines throughout the Karabakh region, peace remains…
Climate Security and Europe’s Greens: A Match Made in Political Heaven?
Jun 10, 2024
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Peter Schwartzstein
When Luxembourg’s Green Party was offered the defense portfolio in coalition talks after performing strongly in the country’s 2019 elections, its senior members faced a…
The Critical Role of Gender Equality in Climate Change: Empowering Women to Heal the Planet
Jun 10, 2024
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Daniel Salvador
The rain had been relentless. It washed away the fragile soil that Mariam depended on for her crops, her only means of feeding her children.…
Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine: May Review
Jun 9, 2024
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Alexei Ovchinnikov
On 11-12 June, Berlin will host an international conference on issues connected with the reconstruction of Ukraine. The goal of the summit is to attract…
Ecopoliticide: The Strategic Murder of Environmental Activists Is a Fundamental Threat to Human and Environmental Security
Jun 8, 2024
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Delon Omrow and Peter Stoett
“Ecopoliticide” provides a conceptual framework for exploring how acts of campaigning, protesting, and resisting against ecocide lead to various forms of retribution. To illuminate this…
How Setting Gender-Sensitive Targets Can Boost Climate Action
Jun 5, 2024
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EIGE
Climate change affects everyone, but not equally. Women are often disproportionately affected by it, in particular single mothers, single women, women with disabilities and elderly…
Breaking Gendered Barriers: Exploring the Nexus Between Youth, Climate Change, Migration, and Gender
Jun 5, 2024
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Yasmina Benslimane
Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing issues of our time, triggering consequences that reverberate across all borders. As the planet's climate continues to…
"Our Land. Our Future”: A Call to Action for National Stewardship in Land Restoration in Liberia
Jun 5, 2024
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Louis Kuukpen
Liberia's commitment to environmental protection is longstanding. Since the nation participated in the historic 1972 United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm, Liberia has…
Oil in the Crosshairs: Environment, Peace, and Security Implications from the War in Sudan and Spillover Effects on South Sudan
Jun 4, 2024
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PAX
In this research blog PAX will provide a brief analysis of the political and environmental implications of the war on Sudanese and South Sudanese oil…
Land Degradation Neutrality and Restoration: Does Gender Matter?
Jun 4, 2024
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Sharon S. Thawaney and Debosmita Sarkar
Marking the 30th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Convention to Combat Desertification, this year’s World Environment Day is focusing on a related key pillar of…
National Climate Action Plans Must Include Military Emissions
Jun 4, 2024
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Linsey Cottrell
COP28 agreed that countries must submit new Nationally Determined Contributions by February 2025. These transparent national plans for climate action play an important role in…
The Future of Central Asian Water Diplomacy
Jun 4, 2024
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Eleanor Greenbaum
Central Asia is known for its rich mineral resources and oil reserves, and its unique geographic position between Russia, China, and Iran. But it is…
Building Trust, Building Peace: Role of Confidence-Building Measures on Korean Peninsula
Jun 4, 2024
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Simon Hutagalung
The Korean Peninsula has a long history of tension and conflict. The relationship between North and South Korea is complicated by historical grievances ideological differences…
Women, Peace, and Security & the Climate Change Agenda
Jun 3, 2024
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Alicia L. Alvarez
Climate change is a critical threat to 21st-century peace and security, with significant gender dimensions influencing how insecurity is experienced and managed by women and…
After the Deluge: One Year on, Can the Ecosystems Disrupted by the Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam Recover?
Jun 3, 2024
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Oleksiy Vasyliuk and Eugene Simonov
Hydropower dams, often unsafe even in peacetime, become a weapon of mass destruction in times of war. The sabotage of the Kakhovka hydropower plant on…
Women Are 14 Times More Likely to Die in a Climate Disaster Than Men. It’s Just One Way Climate Change is Gendered
May 29, 2024
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Carla P. Leahy
When we think of climate and environmental issues such as climate-linked disasters or biodiversity loss, we don’t tend to think about gender. At first glance,…
Climate Change Doesn't Have to Result in Greater Gender Inequity in the Carribean
May 29, 2024
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Wazim Mowla
The Caribbean is one of world’s most vulnerable regions to the effects of climate change. Hurricanes and strong tropical storms, changing precipitation patterns, and sea level rise…
Learning Lessons on Land Grabbing and Agrarian Reform in Colombia
May 28, 2024
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Ian Scoones
This blogpost shares some commentaries emerging from the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing held in Bogota in March. All have relevance to the wider…
Narrative Warfare: Food Insecurity in the Russia-Ukraine War
May 23, 2024
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Mykhaylo Simanovskyy, Volodymyr Kulikov, Nicholas Pierce, and Evan Samsky
Several academic papers, analytical reports, and policy briefs have examined the impact of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the global food market. They explain Russia’s strategy…
Tackling Gender Inequality in a Climate-Changed World
May 22, 2024
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Clara Ceravolo, Ilaria Sisto, Lauren Whitehead, Matthew Walsham, Morane Verhoeven, and Shalini Roy
Air pollution, rising temperatures, crop failures, and water shortages are increasing pressures on health and agrifood systems. During these crises, households often reduce food consumption,…
Bridging the Gap in Climate Change Financing to Violent Conflict Affected Areas
May 22, 2024
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Justine Chambers and Helene Maria Kyed
Countries affected by violent conflict are among the most vulnerable to climate change yet receive an extremely low share of global climate financing. This is…
Opium Protests Catalyze anti-Taliban Sentiments
May 20, 2024
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Janatan Sayeh
Amidst a tumultuous landscape marked by escalating terrorism, deepening ethnic divisions, widespread protests, and the ravages of natural disasters, Afghanistan finds itself at a critical…
Integrating Climate, Peace, and Security in MENA Countries’ NDCs
May 20, 2024
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George Meddings and Frans Schapendonk
The potential threat climate change poses to peace and security is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Nationally…
Climate, Conflict, and Changing Demographics Command Attention in New Global Health Security Report
May 16, 2024
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Lauren Herzer Risi
A new report by the US Intelligence Community highlights what the world stands to lose if it fails to cooperate on global health. The National…