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EnPAx Icon Erika Weinthal

Professor of Environmental and Public Policy
Duke University
United States
Jun 5, 2018

Erika Weinthal is a political scientist and the Lee Hill Snowdon Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.…


EnPAx Icon Environmental Peacebuilding Association Developments

Jun 4, 2018

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is growing fast, with members from 32 countries--and counting! We need your help to continue building the Association.  Please join us, share with your friends,…


Colombia: Protecting Birds through War and Peace: Our Newest Partner, Colombia

Jun 4, 2018 | Alex Dale, BirdLife International

In Colombia, connections are everything. Especially when you’re working in some of the world’s most isolated regions. The unique animals that inhabit this richly biodiverse…


FAO Supports Communities to Monitor Benefits from Commercial Logging

Jun 4, 2018 | Judoemue Kollie, Observer

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) recently signed an agreement valued at over US$80,000 with the National Union of Community…


Afghanistan: A Fragrance Founded to End Conflict Lands a Coveted Deal with Sephora

Jun 4, 2018 | Anne Quito, Quartz

Do perfume and politics mix? 7 Virtues Peace perfumes, a line of fragrances introduced at Sephora’s US stores last week, aspires to help end global…


Call for Abstracts: 2019 Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality and Pro-Sociability (WESIPS) Biennial Conference

Jun 3, 2018

The organizers would like to invite you to consider submitting an abstract in consideration for the 2019 Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality and Pro-Sociability (WESIPS) Biennial…


EnPAx Icon New Privacy Policy

Jun 3, 2018

When people sign up for the Environmental Peacebuilding Community of Practice, they join other professionals and researchers who are interested in environment, conflict, and peace. We…


Call for Abstracts: Cairo Water Week

Jun 3, 2018

The scientific committee of Cairo Water Week welcomes abstracts from experts and researchers who wish to present their work in the technical sessions during October…


Call for Workshop Proposals: Planetary Security Conference 2019

Jun 3, 2018

The Planetary Security Initiative welcomes suggestions for workshops to be held at the 4th Planetary Security Conference (PSC), organized on the 19th and 20th of February in…


Environmental Peacebuilding: An Introduction

Jun 3, 2018 | Vositha's Blog

Throughout history, natural resources have been the cause of many conflicts. While scarcity of resources such as water has been the cause of conflict among…


Afghanistan: MoMP Wraps up Assessment of Mes Aynak Contract

Jun 3, 2018 | Zabihullah Jahanmal, TOLOnews

The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) on Sunday said it has wrapped up their assessment of a list of demands by a Chinese contractor…


Israel/Palestine: Israel's Top Court Hears Petitions sgainst West Bank Land-Grab Law

Jun 3, 2018 | Yotam Berger, Haaretz

A High Court panel is hearing petitions Sunday filed by a number of left-wing organizations and Palestinian municipalities in the West Bank against a new…


Kosovo: Project Associate (Confidence Building through Disaster Risk Reduction Project)

Jun 2, 2018 | UNDP

UNDP has been one of the main partners in the area of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Kosovo since 2010 and has actively supported the…


Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Consultant - Vulnerability & Adaptation (V&A) Team Leader

Jun 2, 2018 | UNDP

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) became a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on December 6, 2000, and the Kyoto Protocol…


Chad: Chief (WASH)

Jun 2, 2018 | UNICEF

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To…


Ethiopia: Programme Coordinator, Addis Ababa

Jun 2, 2018 | UNDP

To rebuild the disrupted livelihoods of pastoral, and agro-pastoral communities affected by recurrent drought, UNDP and FAO are partnering with the regional government to jointly…


Rwanda: Internship: Rwanda Green Cities Program

Jun 2, 2018 | Global Green Growth Institute

Based in Seoul, The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is an intergovernmental organization founded to support and promote a model of economic growth known as…


Somalia: Natural Resource Management Officer

Jun 2, 2018 | Action Against Hunger

Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) has been conducting humanitarian programs in Somalia since May 1992. Currently, AAH is conducting its humanitarian activities in…


Afghanistan: Project Manager

Jun 2, 2018 | Afghanaid

Afghanaid is a British international NGO (www.afghanaid.org.uk) that has been working in Afghanistan since 1983. Headquartered in Kabul, Afghanaid implements projects directly in 8 provinces…


Myanmar: Integrated Land & Seascape Management Specialist, Myeik

Jun 2, 2018 | UNDP

UNDP is implementing the 2013 – 2017 Country Programme in Myanmar with the aim of promoting local governance, growth and sustainable development with emphasis on…


Lebanon: Project Manager

Jun 2, 2018 | International Committee for the Development of Peoples

The International Committee for the Development of Peoples (CISP), through its cooperation with many local actors, both governmental and private, has been implementing humanitarian aid,…


Afghanistan: Context Analysis of Environment (M&E)

Jun 2, 2018 | Swedish Committee for Afghanistan

The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) is one of the largest development organisations working in Afghanistan. SCA’s operations in Afghanistan encompass programmes for education, health,…


DRC: Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the WWF Forest Governance Programme

Jun 2, 2018 | World Wildlife Fund

The WWF Forest Governance Programme funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) between 2017 and 2020 focuses on supporting local civil society organisations…


DRC: Deputy Chief of Party

Jun 2, 2018 | African Wildlife Foundation

African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) works with the people of Africa to ensure its wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern Africa. The organization is seeking…


DRC: Emergency WASH Program Manager

Jun 2, 2018 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…


DRC: Program Development and Policy Coordinator

Jun 2, 2018 | World Wildlife Fund

The WWF is engaged in supporting the environmental friendly infrastructure development in DRC especially when it impacts the thematic and geographical scope of its work.…


Environmental Officer

Jun 2, 2018 | UN High Commissioner for Refugees

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is mandated to lead and coordinate international action to protect and assist refugees and other persons of…


Myanmar’s Jade-Fueled War

Jun 1, 2018 | Daniel Combs, Diplomat

The remote mountains of Kachin state, in Myanmar’s far north, hold the world’s only steady supply of high quality jadeite. The vast majority of Myanmar’s…


Colombia: Opposition to Colombia’s Largest Dam Project Defends the Land, Water and Life

May 31, 2018 | Zoe PC, The Dawn News

The Hidroituango hydroelectric dam project on the Cauca river in the northwest of Antioquia is the largest infrastructure project ever built in Colombia, and is…


Liberia: A Land of Wealth without Manager

May 30, 2018 | B.J. Goodlin

Liberia is a land filled with natural resources of wealth that hasn’t been managed shrewdly or should I put it to you that the lack…