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Colombia: Colombian Government Issues Guidelines for Blockchain Projects
Jul 8, 2022
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Abdulkarim Abdulwahab, CoinQuora
More governments are introducing blockchain technology into projects where transparency and decentralization matter. The Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (MINTC) of Colombia has issued…
Climate Change: Geoff Dabelko Sees Opportunity and Collaboration in Complex Nature of Climate Crises
Jul 8, 2022
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Tosha Jupiter, Ohio University
Ohio University Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service professor Geoff Dabelko has spent most of his summer on the road collaborating with international and…
Netherlands: Post-Doctoral Position for ERC Project: Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals
Jul 8, 2022
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International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
ISS is looking for 1 Post-Doctoral Fellow on China’s resource-based industrial strategy. The objective is to offer a unique opportunity to create a team who…
Afghanistan: How Isolating the Afghan Taliban Could Mean More Young Landmine Victims
Jul 7, 2022
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Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Reuters
The Taliban's return to power last summer, ending their 20-year insurgency, should have helped de-mining efforts, with swathes of territory that were off-limits during the…
DRC: End Violations Associated with Conflict in Mineral-Rich Eastern DRC
Jul 7, 2022
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Demas Kiprono, The Standard
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently joined the East African Community (EAC). Soon after, the EAC member states met in Kenya to address conflict…
Convergence of Conflicts, COVID and Climate Crises, Jeopardize Global Goals
Jul 7, 2022
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United Nations
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 reveals that the convergence of increased fighting, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, and the long-term climate crisis, could push an additional 75 to…
How Green Can Ukraine’s Recovery Really Be?
Jul 7, 2022
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Michelle Langrand
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, there have been over 580 disruptions in industrial and infrastructure facilities, according to figures by the Geneva-based Zoi…
UK/Netherlands: Climate and Peacebuilding Advisor
Jul 7, 2022
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International Alert
International Alert is looking for an exceptional candidate to join our global team as Climate and Peacebuilding Advisor. This comes at an exciting time for…
We Built an Algorithm to Predict How Climate Change Will Affect Future Conflict in the Horn of Africa: Here’s What We Found
Jul 6, 2022
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Jannis Hoch, Niko Wanders, and Sophie de Bruin
The Horn of Africa, on the eastern coast of the continent, is currently being battered by an intense and sustained drought thanks to which around 20 million people…
For Somalia, Nature Is Key to Lasting Peace: UN Expert
Jul 6, 2022
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UN Environment Programme
Just over two years ago, Christophe Hodder was selected as the first UN Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia. Since then, he had spearheaded…
Ukraine/Russia: Switzerland Resists Ukrainian Plan to Seize Frozen Russian Assets
Jul 5, 2022
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Patrick Wintour, Guardian
Ukrainian plans to seize as much as $500bn (£418bn) in frozen Russian assets to fund the country’s recovery have met firm resistance from Switzerland, the…
Exploring Climate Security: Why Bad Outcomes Occur in Some Places and Not Others
Jul 5, 2022
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Josh Busby
Global disaster risk reduction world provides a hopeful sign. Optimists tout that despite large and increasing numbers of people living in harm’s way to climate-related…
Ukraine: UN Warns of Toxic Environmental Legacy for Ukraine, Region
Jul 4, 2022
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UN Environment Programme
Preliminary monitoring of the conflict in Ukraine points to significant impacts on urban and rural environments that could leave the country and region with a…
Liberia: ActionAid Liberia, Partners Launch Project for over 3000 Women
Jul 4, 2022
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Lincoln G. Peters and Winston W. Parley, New Dawn
Ahead of the 2023 presidential and legislative elections, ActionAid Liberia with funding from the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNBPF) a project named 'Strengthening the Agency…
Kenya: 'The Conflict Takes Two Forms': How Worsening Droughts Are Fuelling Tensions in Kenya
Jul 4, 2022
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Orla Dwyer, TheJournal.ie
The Executive Vice-President of the EU Commission has often warned that “our children will be waging wars over water and food if we do not…
Ukraine: On the Front Lines, Ukrainian Women Are Often the First Responders
Jul 3, 2022
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Steve Hendrix and Serhii Korolchuk
Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Nile Dispute Absent from First Peace Conference Led by China to Settle Conflicts in Horn of Africa
Jul 2, 2022
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Mohamed Saied, Al-Monitor
China’s first special envoy to the Horn of Africa Xue Bing has recently offered to mediate in the turbulent region’s conflicts, as Beijing seeks to…
Colombia: Government of Colombia Set to Utilize XRPL Blockchain for Land Registry
Jul 1, 2022
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Crypto News BTC
After a yr of labor, Ripple companion Peersyst Know-how, a Barcelona-based software program improvement agency, has introduced the launch of Colombia’s first Nationwide Land Registry…
Ukraine: Plans to Rebuild Ukraine Should Address Environment, EU Commissioner Says
Jul 1, 2022
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Agence France-Presse
Plans to rebuild Ukraine will need to address restoring the country's war-torn ecosystems, the EU Commissioner for the Environment has said. Virginijus Sinkevicius warned the…
Ukraine/Russia: Shredded Trees, Dead Dolphins and Wildfires — How Russia's Invasion Is Hurting Nature
Jul 1, 2022
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Nathan Rott, Claire Harbage, and Hanna Palamarenko, NPR
The State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine, a government agency, has documented more than 300 cases of what it calls "environmental crimes," carried out by Russia…
Empowering Women Aids Climate Resilience
Jun 30, 2022
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Nina Jeffs, Zainab Yunusa
The overturning of constitutional rights to abortion by the United States Supreme Court is the latest blow in a worldwide rollback of protections for gender…
Libya: US Libya Envoy Warns: Don't Use Oil as a Weapon
Jun 29, 2022
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New Arab
The United States' ambassador to Libya warned rival actors Wednesday against using the country's oil wealth as a political "weapon," amid an internal blockade that…
Her Land, Her Power: How Geospatial Tech Secures Women’s Land Rights
Jun 29, 2022
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Amy Coughenour Betancourt
It is estimated that 70 percent of land in the developing world is undocumented. This makes one billion people vulnerable to eviction and, more specifically,…
Within the Health, Climate, and Security Nexus, Prevention is Better than a Cure
Jun 29, 2022
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Kelly Bridges
Droughts are not the only climate-related disaster that affect WASH and health service delivery. In addition to being one of the hottest years on record, 2022 is…
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and The Rockefeller Foundation Convene Global Women Leaders on Climate, Democracy, and Gender Equity Issues
Jun 28, 2022
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The Rockefeller Foundation
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) and The Rockefeller Foundation co-convened global women leaders on June 20-23, 2022 at the Foundation’s Bellagio…
PERAC: A Voice for Environment and Indigenous Peoples in Conflict’s Grip
Jun 28, 2022
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The New Security Beat
The harm that comes to the environment during armed conflict is often permanent, yet the lack of advocates to fight for its protection as they…
Exploring the Environment-Conflict-Migration Nexus in Asia
Jun 28, 2022
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SEI
This study examines the nexus between climate change, migration and conflict within Asia, with particular attention to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, the three Asian countries…
PERAC: A Voice for Environment and Indigenous Peoples in Conflict’s Grip
Jun 28, 2022
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Elizabeth B. Hessami
The harm that comes to the environment during armed conflict is often permanent, yet the lack of advocates to fight for its protection as they…
Will a Nile Canal Project Dry up Africa’s Largest Wetland?
Jun 28, 2022
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Fred Pearce
South Sudan is moving ahead with plans for a 240-mile canal to divert water from the White Nile and send it to Egypt. But critics…
Ethiopia/Sudan: Sudan Killings Risk Rekindling Border Conflict with Ethiopia
Jun 27, 2022
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Tofe Ayeni, Africa Report
On Sunday 26 June, Sudan’s military issued a statement accusing Ethiopian forces of executing seven Sudanese soldiers and one civilian who had been held captive.…