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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…

Water, Conflict, and Peace: A Decade of Developments

2026 | Water International
Ekta Patel, Juliane Schillinger, Tadesse Kabebew, Mara Tignino, Erika Weinthal, and Carl Bruch

This article examines the evolving relationship between water, conflict, and peace over the past decade. It analyses transboundary disputes, ranging from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance…

From Conflict to Climate Crisis: How Wars Shape the Future Environment

2026 | Journal of Environmental Management
Doorgha Ragoobur

Military activity is a current blind spot in global climate policy. This systematic review synthesises evidence from 263 studies and 36 reports published between 2014…

Ecocide in Ukraine: An Assessment of Geospatial and Environmental Evidence of War-Related Ecosystem Destruction in Ukraine

2026 | Frontiers in Environmental Science
Walter Leal Filho, Mariia Fedoruk, Oleksandra Kunyk, Uliana Semak, Nataliia Yaroshenko, Mariia Ruda, Joao Paulino Pires Eustachio, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, and Johannes M. Luetz

The ongoing war in Ukraine has triggered large-scale and multi-dimensional environmental degradation affecting soils, freshwater systems, forests, agricultural landscapes, atmospheric quality, and biodiversity. Beyond immediate…

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…

Common Ground: Peacebuilding through Social and Community Farming in Northern Ireland

2026 | Local Environment
Jonathan H. Hanson, Aoibeann Walsh, Matt N. Williams, and William Martin

This practice review considers social and community farming as similar approaches to connecting society with farming and farming with society in Northern Ireland. It outlines…

Lakes of Kyrgyzstan: Geography, Major Lakes and Alpine Lake Systems [Dataset]

2026 | Kyrgyzstan Planner
Ethan Hamilton

The structured data behind this guide is available as the Kyrgyzstan Lakes Dataset, an open, source-traceable reference and evidence dataset covering selected lakes, published morphometry,…

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’…

Contesting Central Asian Hydro-Hegemonies: State Territorialisation and the Qosh Tepa Canal in Afghanistan

2026 | Water International
Nodir Ataev and Marcus Taylor

Using the case of the Qosh Tepa Canal – a major water infrastructure under construction to divert water from the Amu Darya across northern Afghanistan…

Shared Waters, Shared Stakes: Science Diplomacy and Conflict Prevention in the Bay of Bengal [Audio]

2026 | adelphi
Josephine Collier and Alexandra Steinkraus

The Bay of Bengal is home to a quarter of humanity, and it is under pressure. Geopolitical competition, declining fish stocks, and the intensifying impacts…

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…

Afghanistan: Understanding the Drivers of Child Acute Malnutrition Embedded within Local Livelihood Systems - Executive Brief

2026 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

Afghanistan continues to face severe levels of child acute malnutrition, driven by interconnected dietary, livelihood, health and environmental factors. This executive brief presents findings from…

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,…

Afghanistan: Flash Update #2: Flooding in Eastern Afghanistan (22 to 23 July 2026)

2026 | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Heavy rainfall and flash floods have affected communities across several provinces in central, eastern and southeastern Afghanistan. The impacts range from loss of life and…

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…

Water and Habitat in Conflict - 2026 Briefer

2026 | International Committee of the Red Cross

Armed conflicts continue to have devastating consequences on access to water and other essential services. Damage to critical infrastructure disrupts access to safe water, health…

How Conflict Economies and Political Volatility Drive Myanmar’s Deforestation – Analysis

2026 | Shwetaungthagathu Reform Initiative Centre
Khant Eaint Hmoo

Myanmar possesses one of Southeast Asia’s most ecologically significant forest systems, including tropical rainforests, montane forests, mangroves, and biodiverse river basins. However, decades of authoritarian…

How Armed Conflict Shapes Food Insecurity in the Sahel and Lake Chad Region

2026 | Communications Sustainability
Yanmin Yang, Zihan Xu, Huining Zheng, Jiayao Shu, Pei Xia, Yifan Lin, Yanxu Liu, and Jian Peng

Armed conflict is closely associated with food insecurity, but its impact on interregional food movement remains insufficiently understood, especially in data-scarce regions. Here the authors…

Sudan’s Internal Hesitance over the GERD: Policy, Polarization, and National Strategy

2026 | Water International
Filippo Verre, Ronny Berndtsson, and Hossein Hashemi

The GERD has been a focal point of hydropolitical tensions in the Nile River Basin, primarily involving Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt. This article examines Sudan’s…

From Slow Violence to Ecological Crisis and Hard Violence: The Impacts of Climate Change and Hydropower Development in the Mekong River Basin on Tonle Sap Lake

2026 | Water International
Mak Sithirith

Hydropower and climate change have made impacts on ecosystems and communities dependent on the Mekong River. Some studies present these impacts as slow violence or…

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…

Environmental Peacebuilding in Difficult Contexts: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conditions for Communal Cooperation in Somalia

2026 | Journal of Peace Research
Osman M. Jama, Tobias Ide, Oliver Fritsch, and Paul Taucher

This article examines the conditions under which local environmental peacebuilding emerges and is sustained in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, with a focus on intercommunal water…