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Nov 23, 2020 | Institute for Climate and Peace

The Institute for Climate and Peace is a 501(c)(3) organization based out of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. ICP was created in response to the 21st century’s increasing…

Conflict Minerals: Minespider Partners with Google for Tin Blockchain Traceability

Nov 23, 2020 | Ledger Insights

Minspider has partnered with Rwandan tin producer LuNa Smelter and Google to develop a blockchain-based tool, OreSource, to help miners and smelters track data about the mineral’s production process. The platform…

Sierra Leone: ‘We See the Sparks Before They Turn into Fires’: Training Women to Avoid Conflict in Sierra Leone

Nov 21, 2020 | UN News

In the West African country of Sierra Leone, the UN is supporting a government programme, training women and men to take on leadership roles in…

Liberia: Nimba Clans Clash over Forest

Nov 20, 2020 | William Q. Harmon, Observer

Dubuzon Clan wants to legalize ownership of its ancestral land, stretching 8,534 acres along the banks of the Cestos River towards Liberia’s border with Cote…

Liberia: Nimba Community Forest Feud Exposes Conflict In Liberian Laws

Nov 19, 2020 | Joaquin M. Sendolo, Observer

It should have been a good year for Blei Community Forest in Gba and Zor, east of Sanniquellie. It had signed up to a range…

Rwanda: CCS Builds Energy Resource Assessment Capabilities and Planning Updates in Rwanda

Nov 19, 2020 | Center for Climate Strategies

The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) is continuing weekly capacity-building sessions and resource assessment activities with staff of the Rwanda Energy Group (REG) and the…

Afghanistan: Women deny land inheritance in Bamyan

Nov 18, 2020 | MENAFN

KABUL: The Afghan women are facing a drastic challenge in land inheritance issues in the central province of Bamyan, where they refuse to be given.…

Lebanon: Women’s Protection and Empowerment Senior Manager

Nov 18, 2020 | International Rescue Committee

The IRC is seeking a Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Senior Manager with a strong background on GBV interventions (including prevention, mitigation and response) and…

Afghanistan: Gender-Based Violence Program Manager

Nov 18, 2020 | International Medical Corps

The GBV Program in Afghanistan has two projects currently with very different approaches. The current IMC Health Sector Response to GBV program, funded by UNFPA,…

Re-Envisioning Climate Action to Sustain Peace and Human Security

Nov 17, 2020 | Catherine Wong, Stephen Gold, Samuel Rizk, and Cassie Flynn

A combination of crisis, conflict, climate change and COVID-19 means that we live in truly unprecedented times. In complex contexts, the message of environmental protection…

Asim Zia

Director
Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security
United States
Nov 17, 2020

Asim Zia is a professor in the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont, with a secondary appointment in the…

Egypt/Ethiopia: Grand Renaissance Dam Offers Opportunity for Regional Cooperation

Nov 17, 2020 | The Street Journal

The dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Renaissance Dam offers a unique chance to create a regional authority benefiting all 12 countries reliant…

Liberia: Forest Affected Community Wants Benefits Paid Directly to NBSTB Account

Nov 17, 2020 | Ishmael F. Menkor, Observer

The forest affected communities across Liberia are asking the central government to deposit all forest-related benefits to the account of the National Benefits Sharing Trust…

Afghanistan: Academy of Science of Afghanistan Organizes Seminar on Water Management

Nov 17, 2020 | Afghanistan Times

The Academic of Science of Afghanistan has organized a one day seminar to discus Afghanistan water management and to deal with the issue form knowledgeable…

Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership (GWSP) – Rising to the Challenges of 2020

Nov 16, 2020 | Jennifer J. Sara

The year 2020 has been shaped by interlocking crises: the COVID-19 pandemic that threatens to roll back years of hard-won development progress, the struggles of…

Integrate Gender When Designing Climate Policy

Nov 16, 2020 | Mara Dolon and Jessica Olson

The team of people tasked with coordinating the global climate change negotiations for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in 2021, we recently learned, consists…

In the Caribbean, Climate Change Is a Gender Issue

Nov 16, 2020

Caribbean countries are vulnerable to climate change and its impacts, including rising sea levels, extreme and unpredictable weather (including natural disasters), drought and flooding, biodiversity…

Masculinity Is the Unspoken Undercurrent in Trumpism and the Fracking Debate

Nov 16, 2020 | Zack Rearick

Deindustrialization emasculates. It hits at men’s pride and devalues a kind of blue-collar physicality that has traditionally been revered (glorified in culture) and rewarded (paid…

Will Bangladesh Ever See An End To Gender-Based Violence?

Nov 16, 2020 | Rosie Pasqualino

Acid and dowry-based attacks have been particularly prominent in the country, though sexual, physical, psychological and economic abuse has been recognized as forms of abuse…

Sudan: WASH Officer

Nov 14, 2020 | Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. They work in crises across more than 30 countries, providing…

Research Consultant: Analyzing Intersection between Conflict, Climate and Hunger

Nov 14, 2020 | Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide is Ireland's largest aid and humanitarian agency. Since its foundation 50 years ago it has worked in 50 countries.

Concern Worldwide has developed an…

Yemen: WASH Expert

Nov 14, 2020 | INTERSOS

INTERSOS is a non-profit humanitarian aid organization that works to assist victims of natural disaster and armed conflict. INTERSOS has operated as an independent organization…

South Sudan: Water and Sanitation Technician

Nov 14, 2020 | United Nations Volunteers

The United Nations Volunteers programme is a United Nations organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Volunteerism is a powerful means of…

Consultancy: Assessing Livestock Herd Management Practices in Isiolo County Project, Building Drought Resilience in Isiolo County through Sustainable Livelihoods

Nov 14, 2020 | Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse

Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse is an international network of non-profit organizations working all over the world in the field of agriculture and livestock production, animal…