Events

Election Series | Gender Based Violence in Mexican Politics

May 29, 2024 | Wilson Center
online

The elections on June 2, 2024 will have a profound impact on the daily lives of the people of Mexico. In light of this, the…

Beyond Borders: Stories of Feminist Resistance From Palestine, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iran

May 29, 2024 | Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Salle Centrale de la Madeleine

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) invites you to a special evening of powerful celebration of feminist resistance and collective liberation. Artists…

Rethinking Climate Change Support in Violent Conflict-Affected States

May 29, 2024 | Danish Institute for International Studies
Copenhagen, Denmark and online

Areas of the world affected by violent conflict and state fragility are among the most vulnerable to climate change yet receive an extremely low share…

2024 Global Gender Equality Conference

May 20, 2024 - May 23, 2024 | USAID

USAID is accepting session abstracts for its 2024 Global Gender Equality Conference. Abstracts will align to three themed tracks and across all USAID sectors. The…

The Red Zone: The Crossfire between Conflict and Climate Change

May 15, 2024 | Center for Strategic International Studies
Washington, DC

Recurring heatwaves, water scarcity, shrinking crop yields, flash floods, and conflict are the primary climate-specific drivers for human insecurity in the Middle East and North…

Environmental Peacebuilding Extended Dialogue on Forests, Livelihoods and Peace: Ecosystem Restoration (A Path to The Hague Initiative)

May 8, 2024 | EnPAx Forest Interest Group
online

Join us to continue the “Extended Dialogue on Forests, Livelihoods, and Peace” in a critical session dedicated to Ecosystem Restoration. In the context of the…

Roundtable Discussion on Ecosystem Restoration (Extended Dialogue on Forests, Livelihoods, and Peace)

May 8, 2024 | Forest Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association
online

Join the Forest Interest Group in a critical session dedicated to Ecosystem Restoration. In the context of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a…

Women’s Participation in Violent Non-State Armed Groups

May 4, 2024 - May 5, 2024 | The University of Waikato
online

Women’s Participation in Violent Non-State Armed Groups: Re-Thinking International Law

In 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross affirmed there were 524 non-state armed groups…

Conversation About — Competing Priorities and Emerging Conflict in the Arctic

May 3, 2024 | EnPAx Climate Change, Disasters, and Resilience Interest Group
online

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on competing priorities and emerging conflict in the Arctic. With accelerated climate change and sea ice melt, the Arctic…

Feminist Peace Summit

May 1, 2024 - May 4, 2024 | Feminist Peace Initiative
University of Denver; online

We are convening the Feminist Peace Summit in the face of intensifying militarization and climate devastation at home and abroad. A reorientation toward feminist principles…

Women’s Roles in Peacebuilding: The Power of Women Leading Peace in Mindanao

Apr 23, 2024 | The Asian Foundation
1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW Root Room, 2nd floor Washington, DC 20036

Women are critical to achieving sustainable peace and can play a significant role in peacebuilding and security efforts globally. Women leaders are important actors in…

Exploring the Environmental Data Ecosystem for Citizen Science in Ukraine

Apr 17, 2024 | Conflict and Environment Observatory
online

This workshop will examine environmental trends before and as a result of the full-scale invasion, the current status of citizen science and civic monitoring in…

Apr 10, 2024 - Apr 10, 2024 | IPPNW
Zoom

The Israel-Hamas war in Gaza causes death, destruction, disease and hunger at a horrendous level. After 150 days, over 30,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis have…

Humanitarian and Environmental Impacts of the War in Gaza: Increasing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Risk of Nuclear War

Apr 10, 2024 | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
online

The Israel-Hamas war in Gaza causes death, destruction, disease and hunger at a horrendous level. After 150 days, over 30,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis have…

Transitional Justice in Colombia: The Environment as and for Transitional Justice

Apr 9, 2024 - Apr 9, 2024 | EnPAx
Zoom

The EnPAx Transitional Justice Interest Group is pleased to invite you to a webinar on transitional justice and the environment in the context of Colombia’s…

Transitional Justice in Colombia: The Environment as-and-for Transitional Justice

Apr 9, 2024 | Transitional Justice Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Online

9 April 2024 | 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT | Register here

The EnPAx Transitional Justice Interest Group is pleased to invite you to a…

Gromada Webinar Series: "Right to Healthy Environment in Times of Armed Conflict " with Amanda Kron

Apr 8, 2024 | Lund University
online

Potential harm to human rights and the environment is amplified in situations of conflict. This presentation will focus on applying the right to a clean,…

Resource Wars: Conflict and Peacebuilding in a World of Environmental Challenge

Apr 5, 2024 | Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and Edgewood College
Madison, WI

Edgewood College is honored to host “Resource Wars: Conflict and Peacebuilding in a World of Environmental Challenge”. The one-day conference is presented by the Wisconsin…

6th Annual Security Challenges in Latin America Forum

Apr 4, 2024 | Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, and Wilson Center
Washington, DC

Join Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars…

Women, Peace & Security Series: Air + Space

Apr 2, 2024 | Military Women's Memorial
Memorial Ave & Schley Dr Arlington, VA 22202

Coinciding with the first anniversary of the US Air Force’s WPS Strategic Action Plan, discussions will span from the strategic to operational: why WPS matters…

Minnesota Peacebuilding Film: "Breaking the News"

Mar 26, 2024 | Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute
online

"Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*,…

The Role of Water Law in Fostering Water for Peace

Mar 25, 2024 | International Association for Water Law
online

The objective of the webinar is to contribute to the World Water Day 2024 campaign on “Water for Peace” by addressing how water law, at…

Reshaping the Nile: Opportunities and Implications of the GERD for Water Security and Peace

Mar 21, 2024 | International Water Resources Association
online

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam represents a turning point in the Nile Basin, both as an opportunity for the countries to come together or a…

Lessons from the UN Compensation Commission for Environmental Reparations

Mar 20, 2024 | EnPAx Transitional Justice Interest Group
online

The Transitional Justice Interest Group (TJ-IG) of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to invite you to a webinar on the issue of post-conflict reparation…

Book Talk | Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation with Leslie T. Chang

Mar 19, 2024 | Wilson Center
5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center and Online EVENT S

The Middle East Program (MEP)’s Middle East Women's initiative is pleased to host former Wall Street Journal journalist Leslie T. Chang for a discussion about…

International Conference on Global Land Grabbing

Mar 19, 2024 - Mar 21, 2024 | Institute of Development Studies
Bogota, Colombia

On its 10th anniversary, the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is collaborating with several leading research hubs (of which IDS is a partner) to host…

Towards a Theoretical Framework for Conflict-Sensitive Climate Adaptation Governance (A Path to The Hague Event)

Mar 14, 2024 | CGIAR, International Institute for Sustainable Development, and National Adaptation Plan Global Network
online

This workshop intends to trigger a conversation around the mechanisms and strategies that may generate the governance conditions for conflict-sensitiveness to emerge within climate adaptation…

Towards a Theoretical Framework for Conflict-Sensitive Climate Adaptation Governance (A Path to The Hague Event)

Mar 14, 2024 | CGIAR, International Institute for Sustainable Development, and National Adaptation Plan Global Network
online

This workshop intends to trigger a conversation around the mechanisms and strategies that may generate the governance conditions for conflict-sensitiveness to emerge within climate adaptation…

International Criminal Law and Ecocide as an International Crime

Mar 7, 2024 | Lund University
online

This webinar with Dr. Nicole Citeroni will delve into the crime of Ecocide. Following recent calls for action by human rights institutions to criminalise and…

Climate Change and National Security Panel

Mar 7, 2024 | Georgetown Law Center on National Security and Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Program
Washington, DC

As climate change exacerbates threat multipliers are expected to continue to destabilize conflict regions and displace people. The DOD and Intelligence Community are ringing the…