Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Announcements

Call for Papers: IPSA 2016

Aug 18, 2015 | International Political Science Association

Organisers of two panels on environmental peacebuilding at the IPSA World Congress 2016 are looking for submissions. Abstracts have to be submitted through the IPSA…

Water and Climate Shocks Ideation Challenge

Jul 21, 2015 | Skoll Global Threats Fund & Innocentive

The Skoll Global Threats Fund is partnering with Innocentive in a challenge to identify early indications of when a water or climatic event in one location, such…

Liz Alden Wily to Deliver Third Al-Moumin Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding

Jul 21, 2015 | American University, ELI, and UNEP

American University, ELI, and UNEP are pleased to announce that Liz Alden Wily will deliver the Third Al-Moumin Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding. The lecture,…

The Sentry

Jul 20, 2015 | Enough Project

Today the Enough Project is launching The Sentry, an initiative seeking to help dismantle the networks of perpetrators, facilitators, and enablers who fund and profit from…

Webinar: The Road to A Comprehensive Conflict Minerals Program in 2015

Jul 20, 2015 | Source Intelligence

It seems like every company that has to file with the SEC or has customers that have to file for Dodd-Frank 1502, Conflict Minerals rule,…

Call for Abstracts: Colloquium on African Borders

Jul 16, 2015 | African Union Border Program

The African Union Border Program (AUBP) supported by the GIZ and the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University (AAU) invites…

Training Curriculum and Facilitators

Jul 14, 2015 | Ade Bodunde

The International Center for Community Peace in Nigeria is seeking assistance in developing a curriculum and training program with courses on Environmental Security and Peace,…

Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform Expands Listing of Courses, Seeks Additional Courses to Include

Jun 8, 2015 | ELI & UNEP

Three environmental peacebuilding courses by Outward Bound Peacebuilding have been added to the Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform. They are the "Palestinian and Israeli Emerging Leaders…

Armed Conflict and the Environment Publishing Opportunity

May 14, 2015 | ABC-CLIO

Authors with environment and peacebuilding background needed to write entries for Armed Conflict and the Environment: A Global Perspective. This reference guide is a collection of case…

Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform Launches New Infographics Section, Seeks Suggestions

May 11, 2015 | ELI and UNEP

The Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform has expanded its Library to include infographics on environmental peacebuilding. This section showcases infographics made in collaboration with students from…

Commonwealth Professional Fellowship

May 7, 2015 | The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University, England

The CTPSR has launched a six week ‘Improving Natural Resource Governance through Citizen Engagement’ fellowship programme (planned for mid-September to end-October 2015) for civil society…

Call for Abstracts: Reframing the Arctic: Cooperation, Not Conflict Workshop

Apr 28, 2015 | Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security

Too much of the popular narrative, in particular media framing, of polar politics is driven by the notion of inevitable conflict. The “Arctic cold war”…

Call for Abstracts: Rethinking Peace, Security and Development in Contemporary Africa

Apr 22, 2015 | University of Bradford

Dubbed as the year of Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance, 2013 saw many African countries celebrate their 50th anniversary of independence. Looking at its past, present…

Call for Abstracts: Peace Conference at Wageningen University

Apr 21, 2015 | Wageningen University

Natural resources often lie at the heart of wars and civil strife. At least forty percent of all intrastate conflicts over the past sixty years…

A New Climate for Peace Report

Apr 17, 2015 | adelphi, International Alert, The Wilson Center, and the European Union Institute for Security Studies

The executive summary of an independent report commissioned by the G7 Foreign Ministers was released on April 14th to coincide with the G7 Foreign Ministers’…

Apply Now! Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding: The Environment

Apr 10, 2015 | Outward Bound Peacebuilding

Join an extraordinary journey in the Costa Rican cloud forest that integrates conflict resolution and leadership training in the context of natural resources via a…

Livelihoods Development Critical to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Economic Recovery – New Study

Apr 3, 2015 | ELI & UNEP

In the wake of armed conflict, rebuilding livelihoods is critical to peacebuilding and economic redevelopment, according to a new study launched today by the Environmental…

Seeking Input on the Definition of "Environmental Peacebuilding"

Mar 31, 2015 | Environmental Peacebuilding

For many years, we have brought together a wide range of researchers, practitioners, and decisionmakers working at the intersection of peacebuilding and natural resources and…

Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Book to Be Published on April 3

Mar 30, 2015 | Helen Young and Lisa Goldman

In developing countries around the world, local natural resources – such as charcoal, wildlife, and fisheries – have strong microeconomic and cultural importance. So vital…

Early Registration for Environmental and Social Conflict Resolution in the Resources Sector

Mar 16, 2015 | EduMine

Registration with an early bird discount is now available for a three-part web-based course focused on improving participants' 1) understanding of the costs of conflict…

2015 Peacebuilders Fellowship

Mar 12, 2015 | Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey: Center for Conflict Studies

The Center's slogan "Knowledge as Action; Action as Change" drives the 2015 Peacebuilders Fellowship. The goal is learn first-hand from the people who are experiencing…

Call for Applications: The United Nations Mandated University for Peace is Now Accepting Applications for 2015-2016 Academic Year

Mar 2, 2015

UPEACE embraces an innovative and inter-disciplinary approach to both the pedagogy and content of post-secondary learning. Our nine master programmes offer specialized, multi-disciplinary courses and…

Register for Course in Natural Resource Management in Post-Conflict Countries

Feb 25, 2015 | United Nations Institute for Training and Research

At the end of the course, participants will be able to: describe how natural resources can contribute to or prolong conflict as well as undermine…

Apply to the Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation in Border Regions, Ecuador

Feb 19, 2015 | The McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies of the University of Massachusetts-Boston, FLACSO-Ecuador, and the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC)

Border zones can be sites of conflict among states and transnational actors over currency and trade, migration and refugees, environmental threats, and contested sovereignty. Trained,…

Call for Papers: Humanitarian Evidence Programme

Feb 13, 2015 | Oxfam GB and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University

The Humanitarian Evidence Program has launched a Call for Proposals to synthesize evidence on the topics of (1) acute malnutrition, (2) market support interventions, and (3)…

Call for Papers: The 8th International Spatial Socio-Cultural Knowledge Workshop: Defence Regional Engagement - The Role of Human Geography in Enabling Defence Engagement

Jan 30, 2015 | The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and Cranfield University

Proposals for presentations, based on one of the workshop objectives (listed below), are invited from interested parties. Presentations will be 30 minutes in length. Presentations…