Events

Webinar: Gender Equality in Agriculture: Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Women's Empowerment

Apr 17, 2019 | International Institute For Sustainable Development
Online

Gender equality in agriculture remains a challenge. Unequal power structures in rural households mean women often have difficulty accessing food for themselves, even though they…

Searching for the Environmental Smoking Gun of Gulf War Illness

Apr 15, 2019 | University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, United Kingdom

A talk by Professor Randall Parrish, Professor of Isotope Geology, University of Portsmouth

Gulf War Illness affects hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians involved in…

Science Diplomacy and Environmental Peacebuilding: Prospects and Challenges in the Mediterranean (First Webinar in a Series on Science Diplomacy)

Apr 15, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
online

The role of science in environmental diplomacy, whether it is in terms of fostering research collaborations between countries or communities, or in terms of its…

Empowering Women By Balancing The Law

Apr 10, 2019 | The World Bank
Washington, DC

Empowering Women by Balancing the Law is an initiative that seeks to provide analytical and technical know-how to pilot countries in assessing and reforming laws…

Ecology Meets Geopolitics: Water Security in Himalayan Asia

Apr 4, 2019 | Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the US Water Partnership
Washington, D.C.

Please join us on Thursday, April 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. for a discussion on water security challenges in Asia and their implications…

Environmental Peacebuilding - New Research Trajectories for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management

Mar 28, 2019 | International Studies Association
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The roundtable on "Environmental Peacebuilding - New Research Trajectories for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management" will be a part of the International Studies Association conference in…

Afghanistan: Renewable Energy, Economic Development, and Security

Mar 28, 2019 | Johns Hopkins University
Washington, DC

The Energy and Environmental Programs Speaker Series is a lecture series of the Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) and Energy Policy and Climate (EPC) programs…

ISA Annual Convention 2019

Mar 27, 2019 - Mar 28, 2019 | International Studies Association
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Join us for the International Studies Association's 60th Annual Convention in Toronto, Canada from March 26-30, 2019. Two panels on environmental peacebuilding are highlighted below:

WA51:…

Governing Minerals for Renewable Energy

Mar 26, 2019 | Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Toronto, Canada

Renewable energy is the best means of bringing global emissions within the required 1.5 degrees limit. While this is an imperative technical response to climate…

Panel Discussion on “Water in Armed Conflicts”

Mar 22, 2019 | Geneva Water Hub, International Peace Institute, and UNICEF
New York, NY

Armed conflicts affect access to safe water in several ways: destruction of and damage to water facilities, attacks against power plants providing energy to water…

Women Leading Nonviolent Movements

Mar 22, 2019 | United States Institute of Peace
Washington, D.C.

Women have often been the invisible actors in history—sidelined from formal political and social spaces—but creating their own spaces for change through engaging in nonviolent…

Diversity and Gender Matters: Doing More to Empower Women in the Peacebuilding Field

Mar 21, 2019 | Alliance for Peacebuilding
Washington, D.C.

Join the Alliance for Peacebuilding on Thursday, March 21st, from 9:00am to 10:45am at the Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E St NW, Washington,…

Seminar on the Geneva List of Principles on the Protection of Water Infrastructure in Relation to Armed Conflicts

Mar 20, 2019 | Geneva Water Hub, Environmental Law Institute, and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Washington, D.C.

Following the recommendations of the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace, the Geneva Water Hub, a centre of the University of the Geneva, acting as…

Lunch Discussion: "The Protection of Water Infrastructure in Relation to Armed Conflicts"

Mar 18, 2019 | World Bank
Washington, DC and online

In its 2017 report “A Matter of Survival”, the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace, co-convened by fifteen countries, has underlined the dire consequences…

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital

Mar 14, 2019 - Mar 24, 2019 | DCEFF and National Geographic
Washington, DC

The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) is the world’s premier showcase of environmentally themed films. Since 1993 its mission has been to…

Linking Feminist Peace, Sustainable Development, and Postwar Infrastructure Reconstruction

Mar 12, 2019 | Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
New York, NY

This interactive panel discussion will bring together women civil society leaders and scholars to show why women, peace and securty (WPS) advocates, if they are…

Advanced Application of Conservation Conflict Transformation

Mar 11, 2019 - Mar 15, 2019 | Center for Conservation Peacebuilding
Washington, DC

The Center for Conservation Peacebuilding offers workshops designed to build the capacity of individuals and teams to collaboratively engage in the theory, principles, and practice…

Launch of the Network of African Women Environmentalists

Mar 8, 2019 | UN Environment
Nairobi, Kenya

The Network of African Women Environmentalists (NAWE) will be launched on International Women's Day, by Dr. Juliette Biao, Director, Africa Office, UN Environment on the…

Strengthening Women's Role in Peace and Multilateralism

Mar 8, 2019 | Permanent Mission of Jordan, UNESCO Liaison Office in Geneva and the University for Peace
Geneva, Switzerland

In the context of the International Women's Day and the Centenary of the League of Nations, the Permanent Mission of Jordan, UNESCO Liaison Office in…

Climate Change and National Security

Mar 6, 2019 | University of Washington
Seattle, WA

The University of Washington will hold a roundtable discussion on "Climate Change and National Security" on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 3:00-4:00 p.m. in Seattle,…

Peace Renewable Energy Credits: Facilitating High-Impact Projects in Fragile Regions

Feb 27, 2019 | Energy Peace Partners and Center for Resource Solutions
online

Join Energy Peace Partners and Center for Resource Solutions in a webinar on February 27th from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST introducing the Peace Renewable…

Joakim Dungel Lectures in International Justice

Feb 18, 2019 | Gothenburg University
Gothenburg, Sweden

The 2019 edition of the Joakim Dungel Lectures in International Justice will take place on 18 February 2019, from 10h to 13h at the School…

Munich Security Conference 2019

Feb 15, 2019 - Feb 17, 2019 | Munich Security Conference Foundation
Munich, Germany

Today, the MSC is the world’s leading forum for debating international security policy. During the MSC's main conference in February, it assembles more than 450…

MOOC on Environmental Security & Sustaining Peace

Feb 11, 2019 - Apr 21, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and SDG Academy
online

Based on two decades of experience, UN Environment, the Environmental Law Institute, Columbia University, Duke University, and the University of California-Irvine have developed a MOOC…

India's Inter-State Water Wars: Causes, Consequences, and Cures

Feb 11, 2019 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Washington, D.C.

The Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at CSIS is pleased to invite you to a discussion on ‘India's Inter-State Water Wars: Causes, Consequences, and…

Examining Tropical Changes: Resilience in the Context of Disturbance and Transgression

Jan 31, 2019 - Feb 2, 2019 | Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters
New Haven, CT

The Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters is proud to announce the 25th Annual Conference which will take place January 31-February 2,…

Seminar: “Environmental Peacebuilding: The Year in Review and the Year Ahead”

Jan 17, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Washington, DC / online

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association will host its first year-in-review seminar “Environmental Peacebuilding: The Year in Review and the Year Ahead.” The event will showcase important…

Warzone Conservation in Afghanistan: A Conversation with Alex Dehgan

Jan 16, 2019 | Wilson Center
Washington, DC

Alex Dehgan arrived in postwar Afghanistan in 2006 with the mission of protecting Afghanistan’s distinctive yet threatened environment. An evolutionary biologist and lawyer working for…

COP24 Side-Event: Building New Alliances around Climate and Security: Germany’s Initiative for the UN Security Council

Dec 14, 2018 | German Federal Foreign Office and adelphi
Katowice, Poland

The German Federal Foreign Office, in partnership with adelphi, will host a side-event to look into the security risks brought about by climate change, the…

COP24 Side-Event: Climate, Peace and Security: Progress toward a Preventive Diplomacy

Dec 13, 2018 | European External Action Service, adelphi, and Planetary Security Initiative
Katowice, Poland

The European External Action Service, in partnership with adelphi and the Planetary Security Initiative, will host a side-event at COP24 aimed at tracking international progress…