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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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Apply Now for Travel Grants for the Second International on Environmental Peacebuilding!

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

EnPAx is dedicated to ensuring our events remain accessible and inclusive. To ensure the Second International Conference of Environmental Peacebuilding includes a diverse mix of…

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…

Liberia: Nimba Clans Square off over Customary Land Title Claims

Sep 20, 2021 | Gerald C. Koinyeneh, FrontPage Africa

This disarmingly peaceful forest area in Liberia's far north Tappita District has been the scene of conflict of one form or another for decades. But…

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,…

Ukraine: Long-Term Energy Adviser

Sep 19, 2021 | Danida

Danish International Development Agency (Danida) is the brand used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark when it provides humanitarian aid and development assistance…

Germany: Project Manager, Land and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa Project

Sep 19, 2021 | Transparency International

The Transparency International Secretariat is currently seeking a Project Manager for the Land and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa Project (more details available at https://www.transparency.org/en/projects/land-corruption-sub-saharan-africa). The project’s…

Afghanistan: Land Dispute Results in 3 Brothers' Death in E. Afghanistan

Sep 19, 2021 | Xinhua

At least three member of a family were killed in Afghanistan eastern province of Paktia, an official said Sunday. The murderer has been arrested and…

Netherlands: Young Water Diplomats Program

Sep 19, 2021 | IHE Delft

The Young Water Diplomats Program provides diplomats and professionals with a background in foreign affairs, international relations or international law with relevant and up-to-date knowledge…

Ukraine: WASH Programme Manager

Sep 19, 2021 | People in Need

People in Need (PIN) is a Czech Republic-based NGO globally working in the relief and development sectors. PIN has been active in Ukraine since early…

Mozambique: Niassa REDD + Program Director

Sep 19, 2021 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US-based non-governmental organization founded in 1895 that protects wildlife and wilderness by understanding critical issues, creating science-based solutions…

Iraq: Program Manager - ACTIVATE (Advocacy Creates Transformational Influence Validating Action for the Environment)

Sep 19, 2021 | 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…

Syria: Eastern HUB Area Manager

Sep 19, 2021 | Oxfam

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

The Role

We are looking for Eastern HUB Area Manager, Lead and manage…

France: Environmental Project Manager

Sep 19, 2021 | Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian medical association, created in 1971, which comes to the aid of sick or injured populations in the…

Somalia: Request for Proposal – Consultancy on Mid-Term Project Review and Evaluation for FSSFS Project

Sep 19, 2021 | European Committee for Training and Agriculture

The European Committee for Training and Agriculture (“CEFA”) has received financing from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (“IFAD”) for Food Security and Sustainability in Fragile…

Myanmar: Project Manager, Sustainable Production

Sep 19, 2021 | Worldwide Fund for Nature

To achieve green investments at scale, domestic finance, particularly from private banks, needs to be mobilized. The project would support local banks to understand the…

CAR: Conservation Manager

Sep 19, 2021 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit, tax-exempt, private organization established in 1895 that saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues,…

Colombia: Colombia Sees the Most Slayings of Environmental Defenders for a Second Year, Report Says

Sep 17, 2021 | Richard McColl, The Globe and Mail

For a second year in a row, Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for environmentalists, according to an international human rights group that has…

Afghanistan: Following the Minerals

Sep 17, 2021 | Rick Mills, Mining.com

“Nature abhors a vacuum” is a familiar maxim in science. It means that empty spaces are un-natural as they go against the laws of physics.…

Afghanistan: Taliban Works to Get Copper Mines Open [Video]

Sep 17, 2021 | Charles Stratford, Al Jazeera

As China moves to engage with the Taliban, it is setting its sights on Afghanistan’s vast mineral resources. The interim government wants Chinese recognition so…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: UN Security Council Weighs in on Nile Dam Dispute

Sep 16, 2021 | Mohamed Saied, Al-Monitor

The United Nations Security Council has recently called on Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to resume negotiations on the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which…

Call for Abstracts: From a Climate-Security Nexus of Conflicts to a Nexus of Synergies (Deadline: 30th September 2021)

Sep 16, 2021 | Universität Hamburg

As the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) unveils, the planet is 1.20C warmer than the pre-industrial period, which is…

Liberia: FDA Issues Moratorium on Harvesting of Chewing Sticks

Sep 16, 2021 | Observer

The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) has frowned on the unscrupulous harvesting of Chewing Sticks (Clear felling), something which it says is seriously undermining and threatening…