Conflict Causes

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Traditional Groundwater Governance in Arid Regions: Institutional Evolution, Marginalization, and Social-Ecological Resilience

2026 | University of Victoria, Department of Geography
Abdul Tawab Balakarzai

As climate induced water scarcity intensifies, global environmental policy responses continue to privilege externalized management paradigms such as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) or Nature-based…

War and the Environment in the Middle East: Degradation, Governance, and the Way Forward

2026 | Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Regional Competence Center for Energy and Climate Justice MENA
David R. Jalilvand and Tobias Zumbrägel

In the Middle East, armed conflict is increasingly undermining not only human security and infrastructure but also the environmental systems on which livelihoods and long-term…

WATER WARS: Official Trailer [Video]

2026 | Red Aces Productions

A feature documentary narrated by Dennis Quaid, WATER WARS explores a clash between ranchers, farmers, and billionaires in a high-stakes legal war over water rights…

Conflictual Cooperation in Transboundary Waters: Insights from the Euphrates–Tigris Basin

2026 | Water International
Amir Safaee, Arda Bilgen, and Saeed Morid

Transboundary water systems are often characterized by the coexistence of conflict and cooperation. Drawing on critical hydropolitics, this article promotes the concept of ‘conflictual cooperation’…

Conflict Economies and Peace Operations

2026 | United Nations University Centre for Policy Research
Erica Gaston, Catharina Nickel, Nicole Goldin, and Rebecca Hinkhouse

Competition over mineral wealth has long been intertwined with conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The resurgence of the March 23 Movement (M23),…

Highlight: Beyond Scarcity: Understanding the Drivers of Farmer-Herder Conflicts

2026 | Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and adelphi

Conflicts between farmers and herders, more precisely between pastoral, agro-pastoral and agricultural communities, arise when land uses and livelihoods compete for the same resources. These…

A Pacific Climate–Peace Nexus

2026 | Toda Peace Institute
Timothy Bryar and Jamie Tarawa

This policy brief argues that the Pacific Islands region offers a distinct and instructive approach to thinking about the relationship between climate change and peace.…

Climate Change, Resource Conflicts, and Rural Women's Empowerment in Nigeria Amid Democratic Erosion: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective

2026 | Women's Studies International Forum
Seun Bamidele

The crises of climate change, resource conflicts, and the decline of democracy significantly impact the empowerment of rural women in Nigeria's agrarian areas. There is…

Gender Norms and Protection: Navigating Agency, Risk, and Backlash

2026 | ODI Global
Anki Sjöberg, Ján Michalko, and Gemma Davies

Conflict exacerbates and creates gendered inequalities and risks rooted in gender norms. At the same time, people exercise their agency to strengthen their protection by…

The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research

2025 | Routledge
Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman

This essential handbook provides researchers, educators and policymakers with the tools and critical reflections needed to navigate the complexities of GBV research, from conceptualisation and…

Food as Necropolitics: The Starvation of Palestinian Sovereignty and Stakes of Geopolitical Ecology

2026 | Political Geography
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and Malini Ranganathan

This article theorizes the deliberate starvation of Gaza as “food-as-necropolitics” and argues that this forced famine clarifies the analytical stakes of the emerging field of…

The Drought Nexus: How Food Security, Conflicts, Land and Water Are Interlinked

2026 | UN Convention to Combat Desertification

Drought is no longer a single-sector crisis. This policy brief introduces the drought nexus, showing how water scarcity, land degradation, food insecurity, energy disruption, migration,…

West Africa - Food Security Outlook: Conflicts Are Driving Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and Crisis (IPC Phase 3) Outcomes, June 2026 - January 2027

2026 | Famine Early Warning Systems Network

Conflict is the main driver of acute food insecurity in the region, particularly in the Sahel. Conflict levels are expected to remain elevated and spill…

Breaking Barriers to Sustain Youth Participation in and Beyond Brazil

2026 | Routledge
Jennifer Lauren and Helena Branco

The global media coverage of the youth climate movement has ignited debate on how to meaningfully engage youth in political decision-making. While not all youth…

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet - Lake Chad, June 2026

2026 | Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Cedric de Coning, Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, Freedom Onuoha, Saibou Issa, and Thor Olav Iversen

The lives and livelihoods of local communities in the borderlands of the Lake Chad Basin are disrupted by both climate change and conflict, which are…

How Can Climate Change Help Us Build a More Peaceful World? [Video]

2026 | TEDxMidAtlantic
Florian Krampe

A cracked riverbed, a drought, people on the move — and the headline writes itself: climate change breeds war. Florian Krampe has spent his career…

Intersecting Futures: Global Trends Shaping and Shaped by Climate Change over the Next Century

2026 | Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Thijs van Aken and Laura Birkman

Climate change is no longer a distant environmental challenge – it is rapidly reshaping global stability, economic resilience, and geopolitical competition. In Intersecting Futures, Thijs van…

Mining, Conflict, and Environmental Action in Myanmar’s Borderlands

2026 | Stimson Center
Surachanee Sriyai, Brian Eyler, and Regan Kwan

Mining in Myanmar’s eastern borderlands is no longer only a local governance challenge; it is a transboundary environmental and security issue with growing regional consequences.…

The Renewable Energy Transition, Critical Minerals, and Conflict Risks

2026 | Environmental Research Letters
Tobias Ide

The transition towards renewable energies is well under way, and it holds significant promises for societies around the world. This Perspective provides a concise overview…

Climate Change as a Security Risk

2026 | Diplomacy and Law
Edmarverson A. Santos

Climate Change is now a security risk because it weakens the material conditions that allow states, communities, and legal systems to function: stable coastlines, predictable…

Ecological Statecraft in the Midst of War: Water, Regeneration, and the Future of Gulf Security

2026 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Olivia Lazard and Ali Bin Shahid

The 2026 US-Iran war is radiating through the Gulf’s energy systems, maritime routes, supply chains, food corridors, financial flows, and regional diplomacy—and its effects will…

A Framework for Breaking the Food–Climate–Water–Conflict Nexus in Africa

2026 | Observer Research Foundation
Malancha Chakrabarty

Africa is in the middle of multiple, yet related, crises—conflicts, climate change, water stress, and food insecurity. The number of active state-based conflicts in Africa…

Water as a Weapon: Israel’s Destruction and Deprivation of Water and Sanitation in Gaza

2026 | Médecins Sans Frontières

Israeli authorities have used access to water as a weapon against Palestinians, systematically depriving people in Gaza, Palestine, of water in a campaign of collective…

Looking the Other Way: What Happened to the Weaponization of Water

2026 | Water International
Eliška Pohnerová

Water and water infrastructure is granted legal protection under international law, making it eligible for normative safeguards. Yet, this normative expectation is challenged by records…

What It Takes to Eat: Conflict and Sudan’s Fragile Food System

2026 | CARE International
Nana Ndeda, Azzaa Ahmed Abdel Aziz, and Sara Karrar

In several areas of Sudan, each meal eaten by a family is made up of ingredients that have crossed one or more battlefields. In fact,…

Colonial Legacies of Agrarian Violence and Persistent Struggles to End It

2026 | Transnational Institute
Jun Borras and Maria Malaya de la Tierra

Assassinations, massacres, genocides and other forms of brutal violence against people and nature are deployed to suppress dissent and silence critical voices. Violence is inherent…

The Human and Environmental Costs of the War in Iran

2026 | Center for American Progress
Kalina Gibson, Dawn Le, and Ariana Sharghi

Civilians have suffered devastating health and environmental costs as a result of the US and Israeli war with Iran, from mass displacement and polluted air…

The US-Israel War on Iran and How War and Conflict Are Destroying the Environment

2026 | GreenPeace
Mehdi Leman

From Ukraine to Sudan, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Venezuela, people are living through war, bombardment, occupation, militarisation or political violence, while the damage reaches far…

Environmental Provisions in Formal Peace Agreements: What Does the Literature Say?

2026 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Richard Marcantonio, Gabrielle Penna, and Liam Gibson

As rates of conflict and environmental risk increase, peace agreements offer a unique occasion to reach accord on both fronts. A systematic review of peer-reviewed…

Navigating the Overlap of Climate-Induced and Conflict-Induced Displacement: Perspectives from Humanitarian Practitioners in the Philippines

2026 | npj Climate Action
Sheryn See, Aaron Opdyke, and Susan Banki

Disasters, conflict, and climate change increasingly intersect, forcing communities to flee and trapping them in cycles of displacement. Yet, humanitarian responses remain fragmented, often addressing…