Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Announcements

Call for Applications: 40 Chances Fellows Program

Apr 21, 2014 | 40 Chances Fellows Program

The 40 Chances Fellows program will fund four 40 Chances Fellows with the most innovative social enterprise plans that use strategies built on the principles…

Call For Papers: Nordic Africa Days 2014 Conference

Apr 9, 2014 | Nordic Africa Institute

The Nordic Africa Days 2014 has a thematic focus on different assumptions of governance. It cuts across research topics covering most African developments and processes,…

Call for Papers and Panel Proposals for The 5th International Conference on Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies

Apr 9, 2014 | Islamic State University Ar-Raniry

Taking a step further from the dynamics beyond reconstruction examined through “Social Recovery” in the 4th conference, this conference will assess the effectiveness and sustainability…

Call for Papers: Post-war Development in Asia and Africa Symposium

Apr 7, 2014 | Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium and Centre for Poverty Analysis

The symposium approaches the question of post- war/conflict development policy as encompassing distinctive goals and processes but addressing two overarching, inter-related, and equally important imperatives.…

Summer Course: Socially Sustainable Degrowth

Apr 3, 2014 | Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra

The Summer School on Degrowth will offer a range of perspectives located at the core of the concept, looking at its sources, dimensions and policy…

Call for Papers: Towards International Resource Fairness - Theories, Conflicts and Policies

Apr 3, 2014 | Vienna University

Natural resources, be they agrarian or mineral, have become a key issue in international politics in recent years. This is due to a number of…

PATRIR and CPAU Joint Project Achieving the MDGs through Peacebuilding in Afghanistan

Apr 3, 2014 | The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR), and Peace and Unity Afghanistan (CPAU)

The objective of the project is to strengthen state, civil society and UN capacity for peacebuilding, peace consolidation and violence prevention in Afghanistan in the…

Courses: Water Conflict and Negotiations

Apr 3, 2014 | Oregon State University

How can we move debates about water resource issues beyond entrenched positions? What are some less confrontational approaches that bring conflicting interests and institutions together…

Call for Papers: The Extractive Industries and Post-conflict Reconstruction in Developing Countries

Mar 31, 2014 | The Extractive Industries and Society (Elsevier Journals)

Since the 1990s, scholarship and policy have drawn considerable attention to the economic dimensions of contemporary armed conflicts. Recent interest in the ‘resource curse’ has…

MSc Water Security and International Development Program

Mar 31, 2014 | University of East Anglia

The MSc Water Security and International Development degree interprets 'water security' in its broad political ecology and political economy sense. We believe that the hydrological cycle is intimately connected…

Summer Course: The Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution

Mar 31, 2014 | George Mason University

This program is designed to provide graduate students with intensive training and practice in field research methods, as well as insight into the complex local dynamics of…

Water Management in Post-Conflict Countries Critical to Peace Building and Economic Recovery – New Study

Mar 21, 2014 | ELI & UNEP

WASHINGTON, DC - 21 March 2014 ‒ In times of war, water resources and infrastructure are often destroyed or become inaccessible to large segments of…

MPI Peacebuilding Training: Week 3: Resource-Based Conflict: Indigenous People's Perspectives and Approaches

Mar 20, 2014 | Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute

This field-based course is designed for community development workers, human rights advocates, environmentalists and other civil society actors who are working with Indigenous People that…

Caux Dialogue 2013 and 2014

Mar 10, 2014 | Land Lives Peace

Six to ten inches of topsoil is all that lies between humanity and extinction. Yet every year more than 30 billion tons of it is…

Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding

Mar 3, 2014 | Outward Bound Peacebuilding

The Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding (PEP) is a program that combines a unique outdoor experience with experiential learning techniques in a multi-cultural environment. During this…

Photo Competition: Transparency that Matters

Feb 27, 2014 | Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

The EITI International Secretariat invites you to the photo competition “Transparency that matters” in March 2014. We want to see your photos showing how EITI…

The University of California Berkeley (UCB) and the University for Peace (UPEACE): Summer Peace Institute

Feb 18, 2014 | University for Peace

The University of California Berkeley (UCB) and the University for Peace (UPEACE) jointly offer the summer course on Human Security and Peacebuilding

Deepen your understanding of…

Call for Applications: 2014 Media Course on Oil, Gas, and Minerals

Feb 18, 2014 | Revenue Watch Institute

The Revenue Watch Institute-Natural Resource Charter is rolling out this year’s training program for African journalists interested in improving their knowledge of and skills in…

Water, People, Agriculture: PhD Scholarship Information

Feb 11, 2014 | Anton & Petra Ehrmann-Stiftung Research Training Group

WPA PhD scholarship

The application is only possible by completing WPA’s PhD scholarship application form, which can be down-loaded here. Besides the application form, the…

Whose Garbage Is This Anyway?

Feb 11, 2014 | Thomas Friedman, in The New York Times (Op-Ed)

Thomas Friedman's NY Times Op-Ed HEBRON, West Bank — It was not your usual Holy Land tour, but surely one of the most revealing I’ve…

Request for Qualifications: Humanitarian Assistance Thematic Window, DRC

Feb 10, 2014 | International Initiative for Impact Evaluation

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation will soon issue a Request for Qualifications from researchers for proposed impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance interventions in the Democratic…

2014 Call for Proposals: Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone (Deadline: 30 May)

Feb 10, 2014 | Open Society Initiative for West Africa

OSIWA seeks proposals aimed at achieving the following specific objectives in the priority countries listed beside each objective: - See more at: http://osiwa.org/en/portal/grants/79/Call-for-proposals.htm#sthash.xRg3yQNP.dpuf OSIWA seeks…

Call for Abstract and Research Proposals on Government Development Strategies in the Pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa

Feb 3, 2014 | Institute for Peace and Security Studies

IPSS is calling for Abstract and Research Proposals on Government Development Strategies in the Pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa: lessons learned.

The research findings…