Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Events

Stockholm World Water Week: Refugees and Migrants: Promoting Ecosystem Protection and Human Rights

Aug 29, 2018 | Geneva Water Hub
Stockholm, Sweden

The millions of migrants and refugees in transient accommodation create an environmental and a humanitarian crisis. To find long-term and sustainable solutions, we need to…

Stockholm World Water Week: Connecting Water, Security and Peace through Ecosystems

Aug 29, 2018 | Geneva Water Hub
Stockholm, Sweden

The relationship between water insecurity and peace has been increasingly appreciated and is attracting growing political attention. This is reflected in the focus of the…

Stockholm World Water Week: Creating Peace Through the Water-Energy-Food and Security Nexus Perspective

Aug 28, 2018 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Stockholm, Sweden

This event discusses how an integrated perspective on water, land and energy resources (and their interdependencies) can reduce competition over these resources. Specifically, it examines…

Stockholm World Water Week: Water and Security: Assessing Risks and Mitigation Options in Hotspots

Aug 27, 2018 | Stockholm International Water Institute and World Resources Institute
Stockholm, Sweden

Since ancient times, water has played a key role in security and conflict. This role is expected to increase, as pressures over water are growing…

Stockholm World Water Week: How Water Utilities Respond in Crisis and Conflict

Aug 27, 2018 | World Bank Group and UN Children’s Fund
Stockholm, Sweden

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region has experienced an upsurge of political unrest and conflict over the past decade. Urban water service providers…

Stockholm World Water Week: Water Diplomacy: A Tool for the Future?

Aug 27, 2018 | Stockholm International Water Institute
Stockholm, Sweden

Water diplomacy is increasingly seen as a means to facilitate dialogue and cooperation between countries and communities at different levels who share water freshwater resources.…

Stockholm World Water Week: Resilient Water Services in an Increasingly Water Insecure World

Aug 26, 2018 | Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance at UN-Habitat, Wetlands International, WaterWorX, Blue Deal consortia, Government of the Netherlands
Stockholm, Sweden

WASH services depend on, and have an impact on ecosystems. Economic growth, population growth, urbanisation and climate change create enormous pressure on ecosystems, and on…

Symposium on Regional Cooperation on Reclaimed Water

Jul 18, 2018 | EcoPeace Middle East
Jerusalem

The Symposium on Regional Cooperation on Reclaimed Water will bring together Israeli and Palestinian decision makers, experts and professionals from the private and public sectors from…

Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding in Africa

Jul 17, 2018 | Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The 2018 Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP) Conference will be held from 16-19 July at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) at…

Building Coastal Resilience for Greater U.S. Security

Jul 16, 2018 | Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Woods Institute, Wilson Center
Washington, D.C.

As the Atlantic hurricane season revs up, some coastal communities in the United States and small-island nations in the Caribbean are still recovering from last…

USAID's Measuring Impact Closeout Event

Jul 12, 2018 | USAID and Woodrow Wilson Center
Washington, DC

Since 2013, the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Forestry and Biodiversity has worked through its Measuring Impact contract to improve the effectiveness of…

Conflict Transformation across Borders

Jul 1, 2018 - Jul 21, 2018 | University of Massachusetts Boston
Quito, Ecuador

Led by an international faculty of peace building practitioners and scholars, this summer institute in Ecuador is designed to equip early-career professionals, graduate and advanced…

Natural Resource Revenue Management in the Global South - A Blessing or a Curse?

Jun 18, 2018 | Peace Research Institute Oslo
Oslo, Norway

How can transparency help in transforming natural resource revenues in developing countries into a blessing rather than a curse? Welcome to a briefing to learn about…

Stockholm Dialogue: On the Nexus between Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability and Conflict Prevention

Jun 12, 2018 | Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, UNDP, UNEP, and Folke Bernadotte Academy
Stockholm, Sweden

The 2030 Agenda asks the global community to respond to a wide range of complex and multidimensional development challenges. This requires a paradigm shift supported…

Sustainable Water, Resilient Communities: The Challenge of Erratic Water

May 30, 2018 | Wilson Center
Washington, DC

Water is indispensable, but also highly variable. Communities around the world need a reliable and predictable supply of fresh water, but outdated infrastructure, poor management,…

Winning the Peace: The Link between Food Insecurity and Global Instability

May 15, 2018 | Stimson Center
Washington, DC

We have long understood that war and conflict produce poverty and hunger. Yet today, with the number of hungry people on the rise for the…

Screening of the Video "Land Grabbing in Angola – a Growing Threat"

May 9, 2018 | Lutheran World Federation
Geneva, Switzerland

Angola is a country rich in natural resources, such as diamonds and oil. When the oil price dropped, the government decreed a diversification of the…

Water in the Middle East and Africa: A Nexus of Cooperation and Conflict

May 7, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

The severe water crises facing areas of the Middle East and Africa have significant implications for the health, welfare and security of the regions’ people.…

‘The Nature of Peace’: Exploring Links Between the Natural Environment and Peace-Building in Post-Conflict Societies

Apr 26, 2018 - Apr 27, 2018 | Lund University
Lund, Sweden

This conference is organized by the interdisciplinary research group ‘The Nature of Peace’ at the Pufendorf Institute of Advance Studies at Lund University, Sweden. The…

Geopolitical Risks and Opportunities of the Lower Oil Price Era

Apr 26, 2018 | Center for a New American Security
Washington, DC

The Center for a New American Security is hosting a public event on how lower oil prices have reshaped geopolitical calculations for U.S. policymakers on Thursday, 26 April,…

Webinar: Conflict Minerals and Supply Chain Compliance for 2018

Apr 24, 2018 | Crowe Horwath
Online

Forensic specialist Chris McClure and corporate compliance attourney Michael Littenberg discuss what's new in Conflict Minerals and Supply Chain Compliance for 2018. Register for this…

International Tin Conference 2018

Apr 23, 2018 - Apr 25, 2018 | International Tin Association Ltd (formerly ITRI)
Budapest, Hungary

The biennial International Tin Conference has grown over the years to become the unmissable highlight of the tin calendar, regularly drawing over 250 delegates from…

Dialogue on Engagement in Environmental Peacebuilding

Apr 23, 2018 - Apr 23, 2018

This Earth Week, coinciding with the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, we are pleased to invite you to join us for…

The Environment in Colombia’s Post-Conflict

Apr 13, 2018 | Washington Office on Latin America
Washington, DC

Now that the conflict is officially over between the Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Revolucionarias Armadas de Colombia, FARC) environmental issues…

Promoting Middle East Water and Energy Security through Investment in a Water-Renewable Energy Exchange for Peace and Stability

Apr 11, 2018 | EcoPeace Middle East
London, UK

EcoPeace Middle East in association with Herbert Smith Freehills, theFTWeekend and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung cordially invite you to Promoting Middle East Water and Energy…