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Call for Nominations: Al Moumin Award for Thought Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding

Dec 12, 2024 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is seeking nominations for the 2025 Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding. The award and lecture are named…

How Atubandike Dialogues are Redefining Gender and Youth Inclusion in Zambian Agriculture

Dec 10, 2024 | Monica Fisher

Women and youth are essential drivers of agricultural and economic resilience in Zambia’s rural farming communities. However, they frequently encounter significant barriers such as restrictive…

Liberia: Women Enjoying Ancestral Land Rights

Dec 10, 2024 | Contributing Author

JORPOLU, Bong County – In the 1980s and 90s,  Annie Wehyee’s relatives did not allow her to make a farm on a plot of land…

Uganda: Advisor for GIS and Land Surveying for the Mediation of Land Conflicts (m/f/x)

Dec 10, 2024 | AGIAMONDO

AGIAMONDO is one of nine institutions in Germany recognised by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) that deploys development workers in accordance…

Kenya: Climate Change Advisor

Dec 10, 2024 | MercyCorps

Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when…

Norway: Consultancy - Humanitarian Energy Failures and Learnings Report

Dec 10, 2024 | Innovation Norway

Increasing access to electricity and clean cooking solutions through innovations in service delivery for conflict and crisis affected communities are essential for enhancing community resilience,…

Kenya: Programme Director, RANGE Program

Dec 10, 2024 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when…

Country Technical Senior Specialist – Food Security and Instability & Conflict | Beirut, Lebanon | 2024

Dec 10, 2024 | Chemonics

Country Technical Senior Specialist – Food Security and Instability & Conflict | Beirut, Lebanon | 2024
Chemonics seeks a Country Technical Senior Specialist – Food Security…

Burkina Faso: Senior Country Representative - West and Central Africa

Dec 10, 2024 | Farm Radio International

 

Farm Radio International is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario and works with radio broadcasters to improve food security and agricultural methods for small-scale farmers and rural…

Jordan: Deputy Chief of Party - Technical

Dec 10, 2024 | Chemonics

Chemonics seeks a Deputy Chief of Party-Technical for the ongoing USAID Economic Reform Activity in Jordan. The project aims to support the Government of Jordan…

South Sudan: Land Use Manager

Dec 10, 2024 | African Parks

African Parks is a non-profit conservation organisation that takes on direct responsibility for the rehabilitation and long-term management of protected areas in partnership with governments…

Guatemala/Kenya/Niger/Zimbabwe: Regional Technical Senior Specialist – Instability and Conflict

Dec 10, 2024 | Chemonics

Chemonics seeks a Regional Technical Senior Specialist – Instability and Conflict (RTSS-IC) to be based in one of the following regional offices: i) Guatemala City,…

Angola/Colombia/El Salvador/Honduras/Togo: Country Technical Senior Specialist – Food Security and Instability & Conflict

Dec 10, 2024 | Chemonics

Chemonics seeks a Country Technical Senior Specialist – Food Security and Instability and Conflict (CTSS – FS&IC) in support of the Famine Early Warning Systems…

USA: Consultancy - Environmental Hazard Researcher (Flood Expert)

Dec 10, 2024 | MercyCorps

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…

Lebanon: Country Technical Senior Specialist – Food Security and Instability & Conflict

Dec 10, 2024 | Chemonics

Chemonics seeks a Country Technical Senior Specialist – Food Security and Instability and Conflict (CTSS – FS&IC) in support of the Famine Early Warning Systems…

Sweden: Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Research

Dec 10, 2024 | Uppsala University

The Department of Peace and Conflict Research was established in 1971 to conduct research and offer courses in peace and conflict studies. The Department is…

Sweden: Associate Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Research

Dec 10, 2024 | Uppsala University

The Department of Peace and Conflict Research was established in 1971 to conduct research and offer courses in peace and conflict studies. The Department is…

Cooperation and Conflict in a Changing Climate

Dec 7, 2024 | Juha Uitto

If there are two issues to call the defining challenges of our time, they’d be climate change and the degradation of natural resources and the…

Honoring Haitian Women Challenging Injustice and Ushering in Change in Haiti and Beyond

Dec 6, 2024 | Shayane Dalencourt-Simon

In the middle of the 16 days of activism against gender violence, we honor the defense done by women in Haiti and their pivotal role…

Afghanistan: Taliban Poppy Ban Is Economic Hit to Farmers

Dec 6, 2024 | Shabnam von Hein, Deutsche Welle

The ban on growing opium poppy has had devastating consequences for Afghanistan's rural population. The Taliban have yet to offer alternatives, and calls for international…

Afghanistan: 9 Arrested in Afghanistan’s Paktia Province for Illegal Logging

Dec 6, 2024 | Fidel Rahmati, Khaama Press

Following the ban on deforestation in the country, authorities in Paktia province have reported the arrest of 9 individuals in connection with illegal logging in…

Colombia: With Blasts and Grit, Colombia Fights Gold Mines Run by Crime Gangs

Dec 6, 2024 | Agence France-Presse

A thin detonating cord snakes its way into an illegal gold mine drilled high up on a mountain near the Colombian city of Cali, exploding…

Climate Change: How Climate Change, Conflicts, Global South's Rise Challenged UN’s Relevance In 2024

Dec 5, 2024 | Shankhyaneel Sarkar, News18.com

From climate change to conflicts, the UN is seeing its relevance decline as those in need of help from the global body say it is…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi Parliament Deadlocked over KRG Oil Compensation in Budget Debate

Dec 5, 2024 | Shafaq News

The Iraqi parliament has once again been thrown into turmoil over the general budget law, with a key point of contention being Article 12, which…

Myanmar: Yacht Maker Sunseeker Fined in Landmark Myanmar ‘Blood Timber’ Case

Dec 4, 2024 | Kristine Sabillo, Mongabay

Yacht builder Sunseeker International has become the first company fined by a U.K. court for using illegally imported timber from military-controlled Myanmar on some of…

COP Climate Talks Could Benefit From More Feminist Values, Less Focus on Tech Solutions, Experts Say

Dec 3, 2024 | Bob Berwyn

With few signs that 30 years of United Nations climate talks have significantly slowed the pace of the greenhouse gas emissions warming the climate, calls to…

Investments in Women, Peace and Security Agenda Vital ‘for Preventing Conflict, Achieving Sustainable, Inclusive Peace’, Senior Official Tells Security Council

Dec 3, 2024 | UN News

Amid an era of conflict and violence, the Security Council and the international community at large must include women and girl peacebuilders in discussions at…

A Vicious Cycle: War and Famine in Sudan

Dec 3, 2024 | Arjun Vohra

The Sudan civil war has done more than devastate lives – it has dismantled the very systems that sustain them. Agriculture, once the backbone of…

Women Land Rights Taskforce Of Liberia (WLRTFL) Climax One Day Awareness On Women’s Land Rights For Women In Rural Montserrado in commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism

Dec 2, 2024 | Press Release

Moiuton Corner, Brewerville – In a significant step toward empowering women in Liberia, 26 women from the Moiuton Corner, Brewerville community have benefited from a one-day…

Guam and Vanuatu: Different Paths from Environmental Change to Human Insecurity

Dec 2, 2024 | Anselm Vogler

Our present ecocrisis drives human insecurity. Single weather events killed hundreds in 2024, even in wealthy countries such as the United States or Spain. And…