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Climate Change: Speech by Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Berlin Climate and Security Conference

Sep 27, 2021 | Federal Foreign Office

New York and the German county of Ahrweiler are far apart. But they both suffered the same fate this year: devastating floods killing dozens of…

USA: Professorship in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Sep 27, 2021 | Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University

The Fletcher School, established in 1933 as the first exclusively graduate school of international affairs in the United States, seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant…

DRC: China, the US and a Twitter Tit-for-Tat over Congo Cobalt Contracts

Sep 25, 2021 | Jevans Nyabiage, South China Morning Post

When the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced his decision, a former American diplomat was quick to offer support. J. Peter Pham,…

Colombia: In Colombia, Legal Mining Proves a Win-Win for Environment, Traditional Communities

Sep 25, 2021 | Dimitri Selibas, Mongabay

In Colombia’s Chocó department, renowned by environmentalists for its abundant biodiversity, Afro-Colombian communities collect gold from rivers as part of an ancestral way of life.…

COP26: Women Must Be Heard on Climate, Say Rights Groups

Sep 25, 2021 | Fiona Harvey

Women must be enabled to play a greater role at the Cop26 summit, as the needs of women and girls are being overlooked amid the global…

Afghanistan: Mapping Afghanistan’s Untapped Natural Resources

Sep 24, 2021 | Mohammed Hussein and Mohammed Haddad, Al Jazeera

Deep beneath the ground in one of the world’s poorest countries sits at least $1 trillion of untapped mineral resources, according to a report published…

Women and Climate Justice: It’s Time to Act

Sep 24, 2021 | Leocadia I. Zak and Susan Kidd

The headlines are clear. Human suffering from a changing climate is escalating and projections show clearly how it will worsen. Equally clear is the need…

South Sudan: South Sudan Warns It May Suspend Oil Output as Exports Blocked

Sep 24, 2021 | Okech Francis, Bloomberg

South Sudan’s government warned it may suspend oil output if port protests in neighboring Sudan that have blocked shipments of the landlocked nation’s crude continue.…

Climate Change: Global Climate Crisis’ Dire Impact on Peace, Security Calls for Bolder Collective Action, Secretary-General Tells Security Council

Sep 23, 2021 | UN

Following are Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Security Council high-level open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security: climate and security, held…

Climate Change: Security Council Sees Climate Change as a ‘Risk Multiplier’

Sep 23, 2021 | Environment News Service

“The climate crisis isn’t coming. It’s already here,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the United Nations Security Council today in a special meeting…

Climate Change: Bringing Climate Security into UNSC Discourse Has Potential to Disrupt Nature of Overall discussions: India

Sep 23, 2021 | Press Trust of India

Dealing with the issue of climate security, which is just one aspect of climate change, in the UN Security Council is not desirable, India said…

Climate Change: UN: Climate Change Increases Risk of Violent Conflict

Sep 23, 2021 | Deutsche Welle

Climate change could heighten tensions on the ground in countries relying on shrinking natural resources, hiking up the risks of violent conflict, UN Secretary General Antonio…

Environmental Peacebuilding Awards: Call for Submissions

Sep 23, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association sponsors awards for leaders, practitioners, and researchers. The Association is seeking nominations for awards to…

Abyei Offers Lessons for the Region on Climate-Related Security Risks

Sep 23, 2021 | Kheira Tarif, Emilie Broek, and Katongo Seyuba

The conflict in Abyei—a disputed border region of farmland, desert and oil fields—has its origins in a long-running disagreement between two pastoralist groups, the local Ngok…

It Makes Economic Sense for Women to Lead the Fight Against the Climate Crisis

Sep 22, 2021 | Oladosu Adenike

For the first time ever, the United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world, passed a resolution recognising access…

Climate Action Must Advance the Rights of Women and Girls

Sep 22, 2021 | Baroness Sugg

As an advocate for gender equality, I believe the most urgent change needed for women and girls is strong action on the climate crisis.

Today is…

Zambia: Study Finds Gender Gap in Benefits of Plant Clinics

Sep 22, 2021 | Ijeoma Ukazu

Researchers assessed whether male and female farmers benefit equally from plant clinicsBoth achieve positive outcomes but these are disproportionately greater in men, the study foundWomen…

Harnessing Drones, Geophysics and Artificial Intelligence to Root out Land Mines

Sep 21, 2021 | Kevin Krajick, Columbia Climate School

Armed with a newly minted undergraduate degree in geology, Jasper Baur is in the mining business. Not those mines where we extract metals or minerals;…

Call for Proposals: PeaceCon@10, COVID, Climate, and Conflict: Rising to the Challenges of a Disrupted World (Deadline: 8th October 2021)

Sep 21, 2021 | Alliance for Peacebuilding and US Institute of Peace

In partnership with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) is proud to announce the theme for PeaceCon@10, COVID, Climate,…

Climate Crisis Exacerbates Military Legacy Contamination

Sep 21, 2021 | Wim Zwijnenburg

The hazardous remnants of war are re-emerging. They include unexploded ordnance (UXO) and other vestiges of war. These military hazards that climate change can “wake…

Climate Change: Climate Change Related Conflicts Gradually Gripping Communities

Sep 20, 2021 | Peter Makwanya, Newsday

The destructive nature of climate change impacts on ecological diversity are being witnessed around the globe. The climate-induced floods, hailstorms, droughts, heatwaves, hunger and famine,…

Support the “Assist a Scholar” Campaign to Facilitate Participation in Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Sep 20, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

As we prepare for the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, we are working hard to ensure the event is accessible to a diverse, global…