Blogs & Opinions
Opinion: Women Have a Major Role in Rebuilding Somalia-- the Private Sector Must Support Them
Apr 3, 2020
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Alice Laugher
When Zahra Ibrahim began studying at a university in Mogadishu, Somalia, she was told that computer science wasn’t for women. Her parents and teachers wanted…
COVID-19: Why Policymakers Need a Gender-focused Approach for Health and Economic Recovery
Apr 2, 2020
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Julia Arnold, Elizabeth Anderson, Smriti Rao, and Sarah Gammage
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to engulf the world, questions of post-disaster recovery must be at the forefront of the conversation. We’re still far from…
Renewable Energy as an Opportunity for Peace?
Apr 2, 2020
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Vane Moraa Aminga
Growth in global energy demands due to population and economic growth has caused energy-sector emissions to rise and surpass historic records. Clearly, efforts to sustainably mitigate climate…
With the World Pre-Occupied with Coronavirus, Israel Pushes a West Bank Land Grab
Apr 2, 2020
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Evan Gottesman
An emergency unity government to confront coronavirus: that’s been Benjamin Netanyahu’s pitch to his rivals in Kachol Lavan since Israel’s March 2 Knesset elections. Kachol…
Members Urge States and the IUCN to Address Conflicts and Biodiversity
Mar 31, 2020
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Stavros Pantazopoulos
The topic of the protection of the environment in relation armed conflicts (PERAC) is increasingly attracting the attention of the international community. The UN Environment…
Show Me! Laying the Foundation for the Next Generation of Environmental Peacebuilding
Mar 31, 2020
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Carl Bruch
As documented by the New Security Beat, environmental peacebuilding has grown dramatically as a field in recent years. Across the security, development, and diplomatic communities,…
Learning from Dalit Women Fighting for Land Rights in Punjab
Mar 31, 2020
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Tarini Manchanda
Stories about Dalit women often go untold, even though women of this social category continue to face discrimination in the caste system as the most oppressed social…
How Gum Acacia Trees Could Help Build Peace in the Sahel
Mar 30, 2020
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Ousseyni Kalilou
A special type of tree could facilitate peacebuilding in the Sahel. A stretch of semi-arid land south of the Sahara that runs from the Red…
Earth Hour Reminds us Tackling Climate Change Needs Gender Equality
Mar 27, 2020
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Kalpana Giri
Forests are vital to tackling climate change. But if we are to succeed in our efforts to save the Earth, we must think beyond conservation,…
Chitra Nagarajan on What’s Changed for Women in Lake Chad Region
Mar 27, 2020
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Wania Yad
“Women and men face very different risks and challenges,” said Chitra Nagarajan, a writer and journalist who covers climate change, conflict, and gender. She spoke in…
Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women
Mar 26, 2020
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Celine Salcedo-La Vina
The international community now fully recognizes the need to secure women’s land rights. The Sustainable Development Goals, the world’s blueprint for development, include women’s land ownership…
The Future of Climate Change and Peace
Mar 26, 2020
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Maxine Burkett and Maya Soetoro-Ng
As fires rage in Australia and in the Amazon, hurricanes ravage the Caribbean year after year, and glacial melt threatens entire communities in the high…
Women and Peace and Security in the Time of Corona
Mar 25, 2020
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Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
2020: It was always going to be a big year for the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda; twenty years since the UN Security Council’s…
Women Lose Most from the Climate Crisis. How Can we Empower Them?
Mar 24, 2020
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Tharanga Gunawardena
Extreme climate events are increasingly threatening countries and livelihoods. Devastating natural disasters and unpredictable weather have made communities more vulnerable and impoverished, especially women. According…
Women & Climate: Planting a Global Forest in a Connected World
Mar 23, 2020
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Rita Ann Wallace and Cynthia S Reyes
In January of this year, Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, shocked much of the world when they…
Gender and Climate-The Importance of Women's Leadership in Climate Action in Singapore and Hong Kong
Mar 23, 2020
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John Sayer
At the most recent UN climate talks in Madrid in December 2019, one positive outcome was the approval of a new Gender Action Plan that…
Promoting Peace in Deserts of Sun and Wind: Renewable Energy Cooperation between India and Pakistan
Mar 23, 2020
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Mirza Sadaqat Huda
South Asia is one of the most conflict-prone regions in the world, in addition to facing chronic energy shortages and extreme vulnerability to climate change.…
Kabul River for Peace and Development
Mar 23, 2020
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Nisar A. Memon
Kabul River (KR) is key resource for large territory of both Pakistan and Afghanistan. About 10 percent of Pakistan’s total water supply comes from the…
Global Famine Predicted in Even a Limited India-Pakistan Nuclear War Due to Soot and Firestorms
Mar 22, 2020
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Earth Institute
The concept of nuclear winter — a years-long planetary freeze brought on by airborne soot generated by nuclear bombs — has been around for decades.…
Herstory: 10 Guatemalan Women Who Changed the Course of History
Mar 20, 2020
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Melissa Vida
Guatemala’s Indigenous peoples make up 60% of the country’s population, yet somehow Indigenous people—and especially Indigenous women—rarely made it into history books. Overall, there seems…
Climate Change and National Security
Mar 17, 2020
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Cecilia Tortajada and Theodore Lai
Climate change, natural resource pollution, and scarcity of various forms have become part of the national security agenda in countries all over the world. Although…
6 Reasons Gender Equality Is Crucial to Achieving the UN's Global Goals
Mar 16, 2020
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Joe McCarthy
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision a world without poverty, hunger, and conflict; one with access to health care, education, and economic opportunity — in short,…
How Natural Resources Could Help Build Peace in Afghanistan
Mar 16, 2020
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Elizabeth B. Hessami
Potential water wars due to plans for multiple dams, violent opium cartels supporting world heroin markets, and many conflict-financing minerals including everyday talc used for…
Why Feminine Leadership Is Essential for the Clean Energy Transition
Mar 13, 2020
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Sarah Golden
Feminine leadership is essential to solving society’s largest, intractable challenges, according to Sarah Shanley Hope, executive director of the Solutions Project.
The Solutions Project is a small…
Why I Marched for the Environment on International Women's Day
Mar 12, 2020
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Katy Wiese
Last Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), a ground-breaking resolution that set out objectives in 12…
Women and the Environment: Roles, Risks and Rights
Mar 12, 2020
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Theresa W. Devasahayam
“Each year, the month of March is a crucial time for women’s organisations worldwide as we take stock of the progress women and girls in…
Launch of NextGen Climate Forecasting System in Colombia [Video]
Mar 11, 2020
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Francesco Fiondella
In August of 2019, Colombia’s national meteorological service, IDEAM, launched a state-of-the-art climate forecasting system called NextGen. You can read more about this milestone in the latest report about…
Scaling-Out Gender Transformation for Climate Change
Mar 9, 2020
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Sophie Huyer and Heidi Braun
Climate change has enormous implications for women in the developing world through increased workloads, food insecurity, threats to health, and more responsibilities due to male…
An Ambitious Year for Climate Action Is a Big Year for Women's Empowerment
Mar 9, 2020
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Frank Rijsberman and Ingvild Solvang
This year, the Paris Agreement’s effectiveness as a global response to the climate crisis is being tested as governments are preparing to submit more ambitious…
Upcoming Conflict Minerals Regulation Does Not Cover Major Technology Companies
Mar 9, 2020
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Sebastian Kovig Skelton
Technology companies are unlikely to tackle the controversial use of so-called conflict minerals in their products because of weaknesses in a forthcoming EU regulation.
The European…