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The Nature of Women, Peace and Security: Towards a More Inclusive Peace
Mar 13, 2021
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Keina Yoshida and Lina Céspedes-Báez
The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and environmental peacebuilding literature’s shared failure to engage more effectively with each other has directly undermined their attempts…
A Conversation with Marisa O. Ensor on Securitizing Youth and Youth’s Role in Peace and Security Agendas [Audio]
Mar 12, 2021
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Amanda King
“I’ve been quite impressed by the wide diversity and complexity of young women’s and men’s engagement for peacebuilding and development often while confronting seemingly insurmountable…
Climate Security in the UN Security Council: Achieving More through Improved Knowledge and Increased Credibility
Mar 10, 2021
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Judith Nora Hardt, Michael Brzoska and Alina Viehoff
The German government should continue its efforts on climate change and security even after its membership in the UN Security Council has come to an…
Rethinking Women’s Leadership in Crisis Situations
Mar 8, 2021
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UNDP
Welcome to today’s discussions on rethinking women’s leadership in crisis situations. This is held as part of our Development Dialogues: Rethinking Solutions to Crisis in the…
Rethink Gender Issues to Better Tackle Climate Change
Mar 8, 2021
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Jacqueline Lau, Pip Cohen, and Sarah Lawless
Gender influences how people experience and respond to climate change. This is particularly evident in developing nations where women and men adapt to climatic shocks differently. Women…
Climate Change and Women in Bangladesh
Mar 8, 2021
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Eshita Rahman and Raihanatul Jannat
Preventing Human-Wildlife Conflict Is Critical for People and the Planet
Mar 7, 2021
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Kristina Rodina
Each year on 3 March, World Wildlife Day presents us with an opportunity. Not only do we celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wildlife,…
Climate Security and Peacebuilding in a Time of Converging Crises
Mar 7, 2021
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Alec Crawford and Julia Donaldson
Climate change has long been considered a contributing factor to conflict and instability. Risks are particularly acute and amplified in states currently suffering from weak…
Who Pays the Price for Climate Crisis
Mar 6, 2021
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Melanne Verveer and Jessica Smith
President Joe Biden wasted no time after assuming office in taking unprecedented steps to advance women's equality within his own administration. With Kamala Harris as…
Climate Change Isn’t Gender Neutral. Climate Action Shouldn’t be Either
Mar 5, 2021
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Lisa Baumgartner
In Lebanon, despite near equal access to education, only 23.5 percent of women are part of the labour force, compared to 70.9 percent of men.…
10 Young Climate Activists Changing the World, in Honor of International Women's Day
Mar 5, 2021
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Sophie Hirsh
Monday, March 8, 2021 marks the annual International Women’s Day, a global holiday that celebrates women’s achievements, fights for gender equality, and fundraises for women’s organizations.…
Zambia: The Voice of Leadership: Women in Wildlife in Zambia
Mar 4, 2021
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Patricia Malasha
In Zambia, women and men are making the choice to challenge cultural and social barriers to women’s participation in natural resource management
When it comes to…
The US Needs Partners to Tackle the Security Risks of Climate Change
Mar 4, 2021
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Joshua Busby, Morgan Bazilian, and Florian Krampe
We live in an age of “actorless threats” – where challenges to peace and security come not only from agents intentionally trying to do us…
International Women’s Day, 2021 Gender Equality is Our Captain for Sailing to a Green & Just Recovery
Mar 1, 2021
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Jennifer Morgan
The climate crisis doesn’t stop for anyone or anything, not even the pandemic that has forced billions of us to radically overhaul our lives. And…
4 Assumptions About Gender that Distort How we Think About Climate Change (and 3 Ways to Do Better)
Mar 1, 2021
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Jacqueline Lau, Pip Cohen, and Sarah Lawless
Gender influences how people experience and respond to climate change. This is particularly evident in developing nations where women and men adapt to climatic shocks differently.…
How Much Oil and Gas Is Contained in the South China Sea?
Feb 28, 2021
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Ethen Kim Lieser
Stretching from Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest to the Strait of Taiwan, the South China Sea long has been considered one of the…
Climate Change, Conflict: What Is Fuelling the Lake Chad Crisis
Feb 28, 2021
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Abhijit Mohanty, Kieran Robson, Samuel Ngueping, and Swayam Sampurna Nanda
One of Africa’s largest freshwater bodies, the Lake Chad, has shrunk by 90 per cent. Over 10 million people across the region are in need…
The Impact of Climate Change on Peace and Security in Somalia: Implications for AMISOM
Feb 28, 2021
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Kheira Tarif and Anab Ovidie Grand
The February 2021 mandate renewal for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is an opportunity to review what we know about climate change and…
Climate-Conflict Research: A Decade of Scientific Progress
Feb 28, 2021
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Halvard Buhaug and Nina von Uexkull
The last decade was the warmest on record, with 2020 tied with 2016 for the all-time high average annual global temperature. This 10-year period also saw…
2021: A New Year Marked by New Rules against Conflict Minerals in the EU
Feb 25, 2021
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Agathe Smyth
While the news did not make the headlines, 1 January 2021 marked the culmination of a long civil society campaign as new European legislation on…
The EU Military Sector’s Carbon Footprint
Feb 23, 2021
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Stuart Parkinson and Linsey Cottrell
Militaries are frequently exempt from publicly reporting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and there is currently no consolidated public reporting of GHG emissions for the…
Saudi-Led Attacks Devastated Yemen’s Civilian Infrastructure, Dramatically Worsening the Humanitarian Crisis
Feb 22, 2021
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Jeannie Sowers and Erika Weinthal
In early February, the Biden administration announced several shifts in U.S. policy toward the war in Yemen — a conflict that has left 20 million…
Why United Nations Peace Operations Cannot Ignore Climate Change
Feb 22, 2021
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Florian Krampe
On 23 February the United Nations (UN) Security Council will hold an open session on the topic of climate change and security. The security implications…
As Biden Seeks Answers on Climate’s Impact on Migration, Sydney Declaration Provides Legal Ground Rules for Action
Feb 22, 2021
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Jane McAdam
In an executive order earlier this month, President Joe Biden ordered a report into “climate change and its impact on migration, including forced migration, internal displacement, and…
DRC Is Rich with Farmland, So Why Do 22 Million People There Face Starvation?
Feb 21, 2021
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Vava Tampa
I was food shopping when I read the news. Nearly 22 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing starvation and malnutrition. Now. In…
Experts Spotlight Bottom-Up Approaches and the Impacts of Conflict on Infrastructure in the Next Wave of Environmental Peacebuilding
Feb 20, 2021
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Ratia Tekenet
“For 30 years, a community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have been working to untangle the complex relationships between environmental change and human and national…
Canadian, US Cannabis Corporations Threaten Colombia's Indigenous Communities
Feb 18, 2021
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Fernanda Sanchez Jaramillo
In 2016, when the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) was signed, Colombia also introduced the legal…
Lisa Ilboudo Nébié: Studying Food Security, Environmental Changes and Migration in West Africa
Feb 18, 2021
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Anuradha Varanasi
As a human ecologist, Elisabeth Ilboudo Nébié looks at the impact of the environment on people. Also, how people are adapting to environmental change.
After graduating with a…
Restructuring for Resolution of Herdsmen-Farmers Conflicts
Feb 18, 2021
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Samson Akinola
To the Executive Governors of Osun, Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti states, this is a summary of a proposal titled, “Restructuring for Resolution of Herdsmen-Farmers Conflicts…
What Would the Nile River Say? The GERD: Approaching the Basin (Part III) | ZeHabesha
Feb 18, 2021
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Amanuel T. Muhzun
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has had a large international focus with reports about its advantages and disadvantages. In fact, the Project is quite…