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South Sudan: South Sudan Revenge Attack Sparked by Cattle Raid Kills 17

Jun 24, 2024 | Reuters

A revenge attack triggered by a cattle raid earlier this month has killed at least 17 people in northern South Sudan and forced oil workers…

Barriers to the Engagement of Women in UN Peace Operations

Jun 24, 2024 | Eleanor Gordon

Women’s meaningful participation in peace operations is critical to building sustainable peace. Yet, women continue to be marginalised, especially in senior roles, because of organisational,…

Flowing Together: Peace and Conflict’s Role in Socio-Hydrology

Jun 24, 2024 | Stefan Doring, Kyungmee Kim, and Ashok Swain

In an era where water scarcity and disputes over water rights increasingly shape global politics, understanding the nexus between water and peace is more critical…

Wars Cause Widespread Pollution and Environmental Damage − Here’s How to Address It in Peace Accords

Jun 23, 2024 | Richard Marcantonio and Josefina Echavarria Alvarez

Few agreements include environmental provisions, and even fewer see them carried out, even though research shows that many drivers of conflict can be directly or…

Niger: Coup-Hit Niger Was Betting on a China-backed Oil Pipeline as a Lifeline. Then the Troubles Began

Jun 22, 2024 | Associated Press

A China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighoring Benin,…

Afghanistan: Climate Change Impacting Eradicating of Poppy Cultivation

Jun 22, 2024 | TOLOnews

The Washington Post reported that climate change is a serious challenge to eradicating drug production in Afghanistan. According to the report, climate change has made…

South Sudan: Illegal Poaching Threatens to Wipe out South Sudan’s Elephants and Other Wildlife

Jun 21, 2024 | Patrick Oyet, Channel News Asia

Nimule is one of six national parks and more than 10 game reserves covering over 13 per cent of South Sudan’s terrain. Many of the…

As Climate Change and Conflict Increase, New IUCN Reports Says Conservationists Need to Better Consider How They Engage with Migration and Displacement of Both Human and Other Species

Jun 21, 2024 | International Union for Conservation of Nature

In a thought-provoking new report titled "Planet on the Move", IUCN’s Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) underscores the need for a paradigm…

“Now What?” Addressing the Climate-Gender-Security Nexus at NATO

Jun 20, 2024 | Siena Cicarelli and Cori Fleser

At the 2021 Brussels Summit, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) endorsed its first-ever Climate Change and Security Action Plan, with the aim to “mainstream…

China/Philippines: ‘Only Pirates Do This’: Philippines Accuses China of Using Bladed Weapons in Major South China Sea Escalation

Jun 20, 2024 | CNN

The Philippines has accused China’s Coast Guard of launching a “brutal assault” with bladed weapons during a South China Sea clash earlier this week, a…

Afghanistan: Taliban Earn Nearly $90 Million from Mining, Oil Fields in Two Months

Jun 20, 2024 | Amu TV

In less than two months, the Taliban has generated nearly $90 million, equivalent to 63.9 billion Afghanis, from mining and oil field extractions in Afghanistan,…

Colombia: The Landmark Ruling against Chiquita Exposes the Failure of Voluntary “Corporate Social Responsibility”

Jun 20, 2024 | Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Anna Canning

Last week, Chiquita Brands International — one of the world’s largest banana distributors — was found liable in a Florida court for financing a Colombian paramilitary group. The ruling marks a landmark…

Colombia: Colombia Faces Severe Food Insecurity Due to Conflict, Extreme Weather Patterns

Jun 20, 2024 | StringersHub

More than 4.5 million people in Colombia are facing severe levels of food insecurity, particularly in rural areas, due to armed conflicts, low income and…

The Hidden Crisis of Lake Chad: How Environmental Degradation Fuels Boko Haram

Jun 20, 2024 | Eleonora Cammarano

Situated in Central Africa, Lake Chad was once a flourishing freshwater reservoir that sustained the lives of more than 30 million people across Chad, Cameroon,…

Forests: How Effective Is the EU’s Marquee Policy to Reduce the Illegal Timber Trade?

Jun 19, 2024 | Mike Gaworecki, Mongabay

It’s extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to determine the full extent of the illicit production and trade of timber worldwide. Illegal loggers and the shadowy networks…

Risks and Restoration: Land as a Driver of Conflict and Cooperation

Jun 19, 2024 | Beatrice Mosello and Mary Potts

Land is crucial to people’s livelihoods, health and wellbeing, culture and identity. So disputes over access to or use of land are a prominent feature…

Gendered Perspectives on Maritime Security: An Ocean of Opportunity for Caribbean Island States

Jun 19, 2024 | Marisa O. Ensor

Maritime security constitutes a geopolitical, legal, and environmental issue of critical importance. For small island developing states (SIDS), maritime security has also emerged as a…

Israel/Palestine: Gaza Conflict Has Caused Major Environmental Damage, UN Says

Jun 18, 2024 | Gloria Dickie and Alison Withers, Reuters

The conflict in Gaza has created unprecedented soil, water and air pollution in the region, destroying sanitation systems and leaving tons of debris from explosive…

DRC: What $7 bn ‘Minerals-for-Infra’ Pact with China Could Mean for Democratic Republic of Congo

Jun 18, 2024 | Manavi Sharma, ThePrint

Ties are ‘extractive’ given vast cobalt reserves in DRC and China’s bid to leverage its ability to fund infra in one of world’s least developed…

Colombia: Desperate to Heal the Soil, Colombia’s Smallholder Farmers Go Regenerative

Jun 18, 2024 | Masha Hamilton, Rockefeller Foundation

Sugarcane now accounts for 88.5 percent of the permanent crops in this region. Monoculture crops, which cover some 80 percent of agricultural land globally, are…

Ukraine/Russia: Russia’s War with Ukraine Accelerating Global Climate Emergency, Report Shows

Jun 18, 2024 | Oluwole Ojewale, Institute for Security Studies

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the world’s leading cobalt producer, contributing around 70% to global production. However, complex levels of organised crime…

Climate Change, Conflict, and Gender Inequality in the MENA Region

Jun 18, 2024 | Zeina Moneer

The Middle East and North Africa is one of the world’s most gender unequal regions; it will take an estimated 140 years for MENA countries to establish parity…

Sudan: Water Crisis Batters War-Torn Sudan as Temperatures Soar

Jun 16, 2024 | Agence France-Presse

War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan — a nation already facing a litany of horrors — to the shores of a water…

Palestine: Palestinian Children Battle a Deadly Foe in Gaza — Starvation

Jun 14, 2024 | Corky Siemaszko and Courtney Kube, NBC News

Every morning, while the Israelis lay siege to Gaza, a battalion of Palestinian children carrying pots, plastic bottles, buckets and even empty paint cans mobilizes…

Israel/Palestine: UN: More Than Half of Cropland in Hungry Gaza Is Damaged

Jun 14, 2024 | Reuters

More than half of Gaza's agricultural land, crucial for feeding the war-ravaged territory's hungry population, has been degraded by conflict, satellite images analyzed by the…

Climate Change: Where’s the Water?

Jun 14, 2024 | Robert Hunziker, Good Men Project

The world’s megacities are on a knife’s edge of water stress. Climate change is clobbering water resources and testing the nerves of the world, especially…

Afghanistan: Maimana Solar-Powered Water System Benefits 2700 Families

Jun 14, 2024 | Qutbuddin Kohi, Pajhwok Afghan News

A solar-powered clean drinking water supply system has been installed in the first district of Maimana city.

Counting the Climate Costs of Warfare

Jun 14, 2024 | Evan George

There are calls for nations to disclose their military-related greenhouse gas emissions as researchers try to tally the climate impacts of war in Ukraine and…

Global Rush for Farmland Could Trigger World War, Documentary Argues

Jun 14, 2024 | Saul Elbein

A global network of powerful entities, fueled in part by Wall Street, is buying up land and water around the world. This global land rush…

Israel/Palestine: UNOSAT and FAO Reveal Substantial Increase in Damage to Gaza's Cropland amid Ongoing Conflict

Jun 13, 2024 | UN International Training and Research Center

The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has released an update on the…