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Conflict Minerals: Disclosure Issuers Want Feedback on First Disclosures As They Prepare Next Conflict Mineral Filings

Oct 3, 2014 | Yin Wilczek, Bloomberg

After the first-ever filings for conflict minerals disclosures in June, some issuers now are asking: is anyone even paying attention?

To date, the Securities and Exchange…

West Africa: How Saving West African Forests Might Have Prevented the Ebola Epidemic

Oct 3, 2014 | JA Ginsburg, The Guardian

The world now knows in great detail how Thomas Eric Duncan, a man who just a few weeks ago showed admirable compassion for a sick,…

Uganda: Natural Resource Team Leader, Mercy Corps (Contingent upon funding)

Oct 2, 2014 | Mercy Corps

General Position Summary:

The NRM Team Leader will be responsible for overseeing program activities aimed at strengthening the horizontal and vertical linkages that support good governance…

Iraq: Oil Giant Puts Exploration on Hold, but Kurdish Villagers Not Allowed Back on Their Land

Oct 2, 2014 | Independent Catholic News

Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraqi Kurdistan visited its partners in villages affected by the ExxonMobil operations on 8 -12 September. The huge Exxoncamp near Hajji…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Kurds Tripling Oil Output While Renewing Baghdad Talks

Oct 2, 2014 | Khalid Al-Ansary and Nayla Razzouk, Bloomberg

Iraq’s Kurds are boosting crude output threefold by the end of next year and plan soon to resume talks with the new central government, signaling…

South Sudan: South Sudan Devalues Its Currency by 50 Percent

Oct 2, 2014 | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTurboNews

South Sudan’s Central Bank has finally faced reality when they devalued the currency from the unsustainable rate of 2.96 SSP (South Sudan Pounds) versus one…

Myanmar: Mandalay Farmers Rally Against Land Grab, Shooting of Villagers

Oct 2, 2014 | Eleven Myanmar

About 1,000 farmers took to the streets of Singu Township, Mandalay Region, on Tuesday, to demand the return of seized farmland and protest against authorities’…

Iraq: Thailand Imports Iraqi Crude for the First Time in Two Years

Oct 2, 2014 | Platts

Thailand for the first time in over two years bought crude oil from Iraq, but the grade of the import remains unclear.

Thai customs data released…

Liberia: Ebola Outbreak Upsets Exxon Drilling Plans

Oct 2, 2014 | Matt Krantz, USA Today

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is disrupting some drilling plans for the USA's biggest oil company.

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson said at a press conference…

Kurdistan on the Brink

Oct 1, 2014 | Samira Ghaderi, The Hill

As ISIS continues its savagery throughout Iraq, the government of Iraq (GoI) has recently transitioned its leadership with Prime Minister al-Abadi replacing al-Maliki. Many hope…

Liberia: U.S.$25 K Scandal Rocks Nocal - Legislature, LACC Probing

Oct 1, 2014 | AllAfrica

A scandal involving a purported attempt to defraud the Liberian government is sending shivers in the corridors of the national legislature, linking the office of…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Protesters Halt Gazprom Neft in Halabja

Oct 1, 2014 | Mohammed Hussein and Patrick Osgood, Iraq Oil Report

Russia’s Gazprom Neft has halted operations in one of its exploration blocks because of ongoing protests by residents – the latest oil company in Iraq's…

India: P3 - Project Officer, UNESCO/Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

Sep 30, 2014 | Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

The Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) is UNESCO’s first education-related category 1 institute towards the development and promotion of…

Kurdish Attempts to Sell Oil Are Not Going to Get Support from the Obama Administration

Sep 30, 2014 | Platts

For two months now, the United Kalavrvta tanker holding 1 million barrels of Kurdish crude has idled in international waters off the coast of Galveston, Texas, awaiting…

Preventing Water Wars: How to Build Bridges over River Disputes

Sep 30, 2014 | Ilmas Futehally, The Guardian

Fifty years ago, Lake Chad in Africa had a surface area of 25,000 square kilometres. Today, it has less than 2,000. The surface area of…

Conservatives Kill Measure to Cut Money for Violent Militias in Africa

Sep 30, 2014 | Rabble

There are times when some of the most significant events in Parliament happen far from public view.

This week the chatter about politics is all about…

Without Peace, Can There Be Development?

Sep 30, 2014 | Huffington Post

As UN Member States follow last week's General Assembly debates with the months-long intergovernmental negotiations around the post-2015 development agenda, this is a critical time…

Myanmar: 130 Firms to Exhibit at October Oil & Gas Fair

Sep 30, 2014 | Democratic Voice of Burma

One hundred and thirty firms from 22 different countries will exhibit a range of services and products at Burma’s inaugural oil and gas trade fair,…

China/South China Sea: Chinese Patriotism Fuels Cruises to Disputed Isles

Sep 30, 2014 | Peng Peng and Jack Chang, Associated Press

On a cruise more about politics than pleasure, Zhang Jing watched the gray shells of the Paracel Islands emerge from the purple, pre-dawn South China…

Vietnam/South China Sea: US and Vietnam to Discuss Curbing China’s Sea Claims

Sep 30, 2014 | David Brown, Epoch Times

When Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meet in early October, China’s aggressive behavior in the waters of…

Liberia: Gov't Reduces Petroleum Prices

Sep 30, 2014 | All Africa

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in close consultation with the management of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company, (LPRC) has announced a reduction in the…

Iraq/Syria: Who Is Buying The Islamic State’s Illegal Oil?

Sep 30, 2014 | Chris Dalby, OILPRICE

In June 2014, computer files captured from a courier for the Islamic State shortly after the fall of Mosul revealed that the group had assets…

Nepal’s Micro-hydropower Projects Have Surprising Effect On Peace Process

Sep 29, 2014 | Florian Krampe

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fifth assessment, which has been rolling out in stages since last September, confirms a crucial divide in current climate…

Call for Papers - ISARS 2015, Delphi (Greece) - Sacred Landscapes and Conflict Transformation. History, Space, Place and Power in Shamanism

Sep 29, 2014 | International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS)

In many parts of the world the wide array of religious-healing complexes defined as shamanism are mainly linked to ancient oral cultures and societies. Of…