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Doug Weir
Research and Policy Director
The Conflict and Environment Observatory
United Kingdom
Jun 18, 2019
Doug Weir is the Research and Policy Director at the Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS). His work focuses on research and awareness-raising on the environmental…
Standing up the Young Professionals Interest Group
Jun 18, 2019
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is excited to announce the launch of the Young Professionals Interest Group, chaired by Ms. Clare Church and Ms. Lydia Cardona.…
We’ll Never Solve Immigration If We Don’t Solve Climate Change
Jun 18, 2019
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Penny Pritzker
In the recent standoff between the U.S. and Mexico, the Trump administration commingled the issues of trade and immigration. This is the wrong approach, and…
Climate Change Poses Security Risks, According to Decades of Intelligence Reports
Jun 18, 2019
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Dana Nuccitelli
Intelligence analysts have agreed since the late 80s that climate change poses serious security risks. Aseries of authoritative governmental and non-governmental analyses over more than…
We’ll Never Solve Immigration If We Don’t Solve Climate Change
Jun 18, 2019
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Penny Pritzker
In the recent standoff between the U.S. and Mexico, the Trump administration commingled the issues of trade and immigration. This is the wrong approach, and…
Liberia: To Stop Destruction of Liberia’s Rainforest, He Put His Life on the Line
Jun 18, 2019
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Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Yale Environmental 360
Alfred Brownell had to flee Liberia after challenging the powerful palm oil and other extractive industries that were clearing its forests. But he remains committed…
Explore Former War Zones and Rebel-Held Territories from Your Living Room: Google Project Shows Users How the Cyprus ‘Buffer Zone’, Abandoned French WWI Villages and Areas of the Colombian Jungle Look Today in Fascinating Detail
Jun 18, 2019
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Ian Randall, Daily Mail
From the fighting lines of World War One to formerly guerrilla-occupied territory in Colombia, a new Google-powered project is immersing viewers in no man's lands…
Water Diplomacy: Creating Spaces for Nile Cooperation
Jun 18, 2019
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Abraham Telar Kuc, Modern Diplomacy
It’s very clear that the long and current regional disputes over the Nile’s waters between the upstream and downstream countries specially Uganda, Ethiopia and other…
Cambodia: Supreme Court Hears Land Grab Case
Jun 18, 2019
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Buth Reaksmey Kongkea, Khmer Times
The Supreme Court yesterday heard the appeal of a former general in the Prime Minister’s Bodyguard Unit who was jailed five years for forging documents…
DRC: DR Congo's Army Moves in to Dislodge Illegal Miners
Jun 18, 2019
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Agence France-Presse
Democratic Republic of Congo's army has sent a battalion of troops to oust illegal miners from land worked by a majority-owned Chinese company, the military…
Water for Peace and Development
Jun 17, 2019
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Nisar A Memon
Life without water is inconceivable. Humans are born in water and their body contain about 65 percent water. Life on any planet is not viable…
Afghanistan: Helmand Farmers Expand Wheat Growing This Year
Jun 17, 2019
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Pajhwok Afghan News
Agriculture officials say 95,000 hectares of land has been cultivated with wheat crop in southern Helmand province this year, showing a 25 percent increase in…
Liberia: 2 Million Acres of Land for Community Ownership, Control
Jun 17, 2019
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Alvin Worzi, Observer
The Liberia Land Authority (LLA) and three Liberian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have agreed to work with 24 communities in eight of the country’s 15 counties…
Climate Change: Climate Change Intensifies the Future Risk of Armed Conflict
Jun 17, 2019
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Siobhán Dunphy, European Scientist
Does climate change increase the risk of violent armed conflict? A new paper published last week on 12 June in Nature suggests intensified global warming…
Iraq: Heat Wave Hits Iraq—and Sparks Begin to Fly
Jun 16, 2019
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Bassem Al-Rikaby and Khalil Jalil, Phys.org
Hospital ventilators shut down, football matches with obligatory water breaks and food spoiling in fridges without power: Iraq's notorious summer has arrived. As one of…
Conflict Minerals: Are Crystals the New Blood Diamonds?
Jun 16, 2019
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Eva Wiseman, Guardian
Crystallisation is a transition from chaos to perfection; the evolution of the crystal industry has been less simple. Millions of years ago liquid rock inside…
Myanmar: Regreening a Barren Rohingya Refugee Camp on Myanmar’s Border
Jun 16, 2019
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Kaamil Ahmed, Mongabay
When Mongabay visited after the 2017 influx, evidence of the active deforestation was everywhere. Where the refugees were not clearing space for the still-expanding camp,…
Afghanistan: Distribution of Saffron Bulbs Kick off in Northern Balkh Province
Jun 16, 2019
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Khaama Press
The distribution process of Saffron bulbs among local farmers kicked off in Balkh province of Afghanistan on Saturday. The Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock…
Why the Global Oil Market Is on a Knife Edge over Regional Tensions
Jun 16, 2019
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Robin Mills, National
It goes beyond megaphone diplomacy – more like Friedrich Nietzsche’s “philosophising with a hammer”. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s overtures in Tehran were brusquely rejected…
Water Wars: How Scarcity Exacerbates Conflict
Jun 15, 2019
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Oliver Lees
Around the world, water scarcity is increasingly changing the face of conflict. Beyond its being essential to human survival – one can only live a…
Kenya/Somalia: Calls for Dialogue to Solve Kenya, Somalia Maritime Dispute
Jun 15, 2019
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Fred Oluoch, East African
A group of maritime experts in Kenya have appealed to the government to shift from aggressive reaction against Somalia over the maritime dispute and embrace diplomacy…
Iraq: Exxon's Evacuated Foreign Staff Return to Iraqi Oilfield
Jun 15, 2019
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Hiwa Shilani, Kurdistan 24
Following their evacuation nearly a month earlier that was described as a precautionary measure, 22 foreign employees of oil giant Exxon Mobil returned to Iraq’s southern…
DRC: Frontier Security Founder Erik Prince Registers Mining Subsidiary in DRC
Jun 14, 2019
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David McKay, Miningmx
Erik Prince, the founder of controversial security company, Blackwater, and who said earlier this year he planned to raise $500m to develop mines in Africa,…
Afghanistan/Iran: Iran, Afghanistan Sign New Agreement to Ameliorate Water Sharing from Hirmand
Jun 14, 2019
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Financial Tribune
Iran and Afghanistan signed an agreement in Kabul on Thursday on the optimal use of water sharing from the Hirmand (also known as Helmand) River.…
South Sudan: Record Number of People Face Severe Hunger
Jun 14, 2019
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Al Jazeera
A record number of almost seven million people in South Sudan - or more than 60 percent of its population - are facing severe hunger, according to a new report…
Myanmar: Gems Mines in Kachin State Ordered to Suspend during Rainy Season
Jun 14, 2019
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Eleven
Myanmar Gems Enterprise has issued a directive suspending jade mining in Hpakant and Lonekhin gems fields from July 1 to September 30 as waste pit…
Colombia: Narco-Trafficking and Petrol: A Quarter of Colombia's Fuel Goes to Make Cocaine
Jun 14, 2019
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Joe Parkin Daniels, Guardian
Colombian authorities estimate that more than a quarter of petrol sold in the country last year went to the drugs industry, which depends on the…
Climate Change: Germany Calls for Action in Climate Security
Jun 14, 2019
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Planetary Security Initiative
On 4 June German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas hosted seven foreign ministers, 19 ambassadors, several other ministers and more than 200 experts and civil society…
A 'Responsibility to Prepare': A Strategy for Presidential Leadership on the Security Risks of Climate Change
Jun 14, 2019
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Caitlin Werrell, Francesco Femia, and John Conger
Presidential candidates are offering their plans on climate change, and it’s a competition over who’s the most ambitious. That’s good news, given that it’s a major…
Iran: Tankers Are Attacked in Mideast, and US Says Video Shows Iran Was Involved
Jun 13, 2019
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David D. Kirkpatrick, Richard Perez-Pena, and Stanley Reed, New York Times
Explosions crippled two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday in what the United States called “unprovoked attacks” by Iran, raising alarms about…