Events


Restoring the Fabric of Nature and Humanity – Peace, Conflict, Migration and Environment (IUCN World Conservation Congress)

Jun 14, 2020 | International Union for Conservation of Nature
Marseille, France

We live in turbulent times with wildly shifting environmental parameters. How can nature be a healing and restorative force for humanity and help mitigate pressures…


Planet on the Move - Challenges and Solutions for Migration, Environmental Change and Conflict (IUCN World Conservation Congress)

Jun 13, 2020 | IUCN CEESP Theme on Environment and Peace Task Force on Environmental Change, Migration and Conflict
Marseille, France

The increase, impact and scale of the movement of people and other species resulting from extreme weather, environmental change, violent conflict, and slow onset disasters…


Conflict Zones and Indigenous Governance in World Heritage and Protected Areas Management (IUCN World Conservation Congress)

Jun 13, 2020 | Australian National University
Marseille, France

The proposed session seeks to refine IUCN guidelines to better address conflict zones and indigenous governance in World Heritage and protected areas management. The session…


Integrating Conflict Sensitivity for Sustainable Conservation (IUCN World Conservation Congress)

Jun 13, 2020 | Conservation International
Marseille, France

Climate change and environmental degradation amplify the potential for socio-political conflict and undermines conservation; this session will share practical experiences of how integrating conflict sensitivity…


International E-Dialogue: Increasing the Visibility of Women in Conflict Resolution, Negotiations and Mediation

Jun 13, 2020 | Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti New Delhi
Online

This June 13 e-dialogue will feature:

Vidya Jain, former SG APPRA and Convenor, Nonviolence Commission, IPRABernedette Muthien, Facilitator, Researcher and Poet, S. AfricaMatt Meyer, Co-Secretary General,…


Symposium, Visualizing Climate Change | Episode 1: Climate Change and the Female Gaze

Jun 12, 2020 | Archive Research Centre at the London College of Communication; University of the Arts London; VII Photo Agency
Online

At this time of crisis, it is important to acknowledge the gendered nuances of the impact of climate change, and how women are playing leading…


African Women in Films about African Colonial and Postcolonial Conflicts

Jun 11, 2020 | The Graduate Institute Geneva
Online

Cinematic representations of African women in situations of political conflict, including fictional, biographical and documentary, have become an important source of information from which many…


Climate Security for Sustaining Peace (Part III)

Jun 11, 2020 | United Nations System Staff College, UN Climate Security Mechanism, and adelphi
online

Learn about the opportunities and challenges of translating climate risk analysis into regional conflict and climate sensitive programming through examples from operations in the African…


Climate and Security: Advancing A Gender Lens

Jun 11, 2020 | The United Nations Joint Programme on Women, Natural Resources, Climate and Peace and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
online

A high-level virtual discussion on gender, climate and security.

In this critical moment of global crisis, there is an opportunity to “build back better” and create a…


Sustainability Impact Assessment: Introducing ScalA-Peacebuilding Tool for Ex-Ante Impact Assessment

Jun 11, 2020 | ZALF and the Center for Development Research (ZEF - University of Bonn)
online

Introducing sustainability impact assessment (Dr. Jana Schindler, OXFAM Germany)

ScalA-Peacebuilding tool: assessing scaling-up potential of planned agricultural interventions (Dr. Katharina Löhr, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape…


EnPAx Icon Webinar on “The Afghan Emerald Trade: Challenges and Opportunities” (Third in an Occasional Series of Discussions on Environment, Conflict, and Peace in Afghanistan)

Jun 10, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
online

This webinar will examine the burgeoning commercial trade in one of Afghanistan’s most beautiful and prized natural resources -- Panjshir Emeralds. While Afghanistan has been…


Training Course: "Humanitarian Action and the Environment"

Jun 9, 2020 - Jun 11, 2020 | Groupe URD and UNEP/ OCHA Joint Environment Unit
Plaisians, France

In partnership with UNEP / OCHA Joint Environment Unit, this training will give you the concepts, methods and tools to understand and anticipate the impacts…


Gender, Climate and Security: Presenting the Evidence

Jun 9, 2020 | UN Joint Programme on Women, Natural Resources, Climate and Peace and Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
online

This webinar is co-hosted by the UN Joint Programme on Women, Natural Resources, Climate and Peace and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security,…


AGENT Webinar: Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages - Key Issues and Strategies for Change

Jun 4, 2020 | International Union for Conservation of Nature and USAID
Online

Join IUCN, USAID, and other partners for the first in a series of webinars and presenting AGENT research and key findings on linkages related to:…


Webinar What (Afghan) Women Want? : What do Peace talks with Taliban Mean for Afghan Women

Jun 4, 2020 | Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA)
Online

Chair and Moderator

Ambassador Amar Sinha retired from the Indian Foreign Service as Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, in June…


US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution: Understanding Conflict and Planning for Successful Collaboration

Jun 3, 2020 - Jun 4, 2020 | Udall Foundation
Arlington, VA

Participants experience training that is dynamic, problem-based, and highly interactive. Each course provides opportunities to practice new ECCR skills through exercises that simulate real-life situations,…


EnPAx Icon Land Rights Implications of COVID-19

Jun 3, 2020 - Jun 24, 2020 | Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR, GIZ, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America, and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID)
online

As governments press pause on economic activities and people change their work and social behaviors to halt the spread of COVID-19, there are several hidden…


Wartime Environmental Damage before International Courts and Tribunals: Strengthening the Environmental Rule of Law

Jun 3, 2020 | Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa
Online

Remedying wartime environmental damage in the aftermath of an armed conflict is fraught with considerable difficulties. For one, causation and proof of wartime environmental damage…


Género y Cambio Climático ¿Cómo Abordarlo? / Gender and Climate Change: How to Tackle it?

Jun 3, 2020 | IDOM; Gender Issues
Online

Webinar “Género y Cambio Climático ¿Cómo abordarlo?”: Cada vez más, un requisito indispensable para los proyectos de cambio climático es la inclusión de un componente de…


How Can We Holistically Address Equity, Conservation, Reproductive Health, and Livelihood Needs During the Global Pandemic?

Jun 3, 2020 | USAID; PACE
Online

This webinar, hosted by PRB’s USAID-funded PACE project will focus on the impacts of the global economic crisis caused by the pandemic on vulnerable people, particularly…


Virtual Roundtable: Women's Economic Empowerment in the Time of COVID-19

Jun 2, 2020 | The SEEP Network & FinEquity
Online

The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Working Group and FinEquity are delighted to cohost a 90-minute virtual roundtable discussion on COVID-19 and Women’s Economic Empowerment, with a focus…


Environmental Impacts of Occupation

Jun 2, 2020 | Sabeel, Kumi Now, Palestinian Musuem of Natural History
online

Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, activist, author, scientist, and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History, will help us understand the environmental impacts of the Israeli…


EnPAx Icon Protecting the Environment is Protecting Civilians

May 29, 2020 | PAX, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations, Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations
online

Armed conflicts contribute to significant environmental devastation and conflict pollution. Attacks on industrial sites and other critical and environmental infrastructure can result in the exposure…


EnPAx Icon Migration, Displacement, and De-urbanization in the Context of COVID-19

May 28, 2020 | Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR, GIZ, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America, and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID)
online

De-urbanization is a growing issue that is emerging in the context of the covid-19 crisis throughout the developing world. As people leave cities they are…


EnPAx Icon Eviction Response during and after COVID-19

May 27, 2020 | Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR, GIZ, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America, and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID)
online

Evictions have emerged as the most common housing, land and property risk globally associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in spite of the fact that access…


IWRA Webinar: Women & Resilience in the Water Sector

May 27, 2020 | International Right of Way Association
Online

This webinar from the IWRA looks at the gendered aspects of resilience in the water sector. The links between water and women are increasingly well…


EnPAx Icon Women’s Housing and Land Rights and COVID-19

May 26, 2020 | Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR, GIZ, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America, and UK's Department for International Development (DFID)
Online

Rural women make up a quarter of the world’s population, but many face legal and social barriers that limit their ability to access, use and…


Collaboration and Conflict Transformation in Multi-Party Processes for Natural Resource Conservation

May 20, 2020 - May 22, 2020 | University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

In the United States and around the world, humans continue to face the increasing presence of conflict over natural resources.  Traditional legal processes establish regulatory…


Oxfam and UN Women webinar on Realizing Women’s land rights to Accelerate Equality Actions 25 years after Beijing

May 18, 2020 | Oxfam, UN Women
Online

This webinar, co-organized by Oxfam and UN Women, will focus on women's land rights as fundamental for achieving gender equality in the in context of…


Climate Disruption, Gender, and Peacebuilding

May 17, 2020 - May 20, 2020 | Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
Stockholm, Sweden

This three-day, invitation-only workshop, organized with support from the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, will be centered on climate. It will ask, how is it…