Cooperation

Youth! Rise for a Greener Future

2025 | Freehand Studios and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

‘Youth! Rise for a Greener Future' (Dhalinyarooy, U Kaca Mustaqbal Doog leh) explores the links between climate change, environmental degradation, displacement and conflict in Somalia.…

The Many Voices of Environmental Cooperation: A Relational Analysis of 30 Years of Environmental Peacebuilding over Shared Waters in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine

2025 | Environment and Security
Laura E. R. Peters, Ken Conca, Aaron T. Wolf, Ari Lippi, and Jamon Van Den Hoek

Environmental cooperation is theorized to contribute to peacebuilding, but the complexity of how this linkage is realized for the people involved remains out of view.…

EcoPeace Middle East Desk Study of the Geo-political, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility of a Middle East - Europe Renewable Energy Corridor

2025 | Qamar Energy and EcoPeace Middle East

Clean energy is a crucial opportunity to foster sustainable development, economic reconstruction, and peace and reconciliation, between Israel, Palestine and the neighbouring countries of Jordan,…

Identifying Peace Pathways: How Can Forest Conservation Contribute to Environmental Peacebuilding?

2025 | Climate and Development
Rowan Alumasa Alusiola, Rebecca Froese, Janpeter Schilling, and Paul Klär

A growing body of literature is analyzing the conflict implications of forest conservation measures, yet, aside from individual case studies, the potential of these programs…

Water Security in the Polycrisis: Between Negative and Positive Tipping Points

2025 | Frontiers
Jurgen Scheffran

Water security is facing multiple stressors in the emerging polycrisis of the Anthropocene, with a great acceleration challenging planetary boundaries and human livelihoods. In a…

Mutual Aid in Times of Crisis. Case Study: Australia

2025 | Groupe URD
Claire McLisky and Emma Pittaway

This report considers the forms, characteristics and dynamics of mutual aid, and the relationship between mutual aid and official responses, in Greater Uki, located in…

Building Critical Minerals Cooperation between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Gracelin Baskaran

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries, and in 2024, it attracted the largest volume of mineral…

Factors Affecting Transboundary Water Disputes: Nile, Indus, and Euphrates–Tigris River Basins

2025 | Water
Mujib Ahmad Azizi and Jorge Leandro

Transboundary water disputes arise as nations compete over shared water resources, exacerbated by climate change, socio-economic inequalities, and geopolitical tensions. These disputes, prominent in river…

L'Entraide en Temps de Crise : Étude de Cas Tchad

2025 | Groupe URD
Cécile Petitdemange and Aline Hubert

This case study was chosen because Chad is one of the most vulnerable countries and the least prepared for climate change, and is very frequently…

Transboundary Aquifer Management across the Americas: Hydro-Diplomacy as an Accelerator of Adaptive Groundwater Governance Amid Climate Change Challenges

2024 | Water
Giulia I. Rubin, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Carolina Londono-Escudero, and Raffaele Vignola

The management of transboundary aquifers across the Americas faces significant challenges, especially as climate change and population growth intensify groundwater stress. Groundwater use has increased…

Interstate Environmental Peacebuilding: A Systematic Review

2024 | Environment and Security
Aleksandra Balinskaia

In response to the growing interest in environmental peacebuilding (EP), the imperative of organizing and impartially assessing accumulated knowledge has intensified. Previous review articles on…

Indigenous Peacebuilding and Environmental Restorative Justice (chapter in "Ecological Integrity and International Law: Peace, Public Health, and Global Security")

2025 | Routledge
Giada Giacomini

This chapter explores the interconnection between Indigenous peoples peacebuilding processes and environmental restorative justice. Environmental restorative justice challenges anthropological conceptualization of peacebuilding processes by considering…

Environmental Diplomacy: The UAE and Israel before and after October 7

2024 | Institute for National Security Studies
Francesca Fassbender and Udi Sommer

Environmental cooperation was a key component highlighted in the Abraham Accords between Israel and the UAE in 2020. However, it has since received limited attention…

Adapting to Climate Change under Threats of Violence: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Incentives for Conflict and Collaboration

2025 | Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
Leonardo Medina, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Laderach, Stefan Sieber, and Michele Bonatti

Research on climate and conflict often emphasizes violence and its drivers, overlooking the prevalence of collaboration in shaping social relations. Addressing this gap, this study…

The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: A Feminist Degrowth for Unsettling Transition

2024 | Pluto Press
Bengi Akbulut

Transition is indeed the buzzword of our time. While far from being uncontested, the term has also increasingly and visibly been appropriated by corporations, nation-states and…

Bridging Paths: Youth, Gender, and Community in Sustainable Peacebuilding

2024 | Lvardi University
Odani Longa and Rami Kamak

Sustainable peacebuilding requires a comprehensive and inclusive approach that addresses the root causes of conflict while fostering long-term stability and harmony within societies. Traditionally, peacebuilding…

Conflict-Sensitive Climate Action in Practice

2024 | Environment, Climate, Conflict and Peace Community of Practice

In alignment with the launch of the Common Principles for Effective Climate Finance and action for Relief, Recovery and Peace at COP29, the ‘Conflict-sensitive climate…

Co-operation in North-west Azerbaijan and Eastern Georgia

2024 | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and adelphi
Raquel Munayer, Beatrice Mosello, and Lukas Ruttinger

This scoping study aims to assess the current context of landscape fire management and wildfire risk reduction in two pilot municipalities: Dedoplistskaro in Georgia and…

Localising Climate, Peace and Security: A Practical Step-by-Step Guidance Note for Local Peacebuilders

2024 | Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict
Isaac Jeffrey Raphael Alston-Voyticky and Marina Kumskova

The GPPAC practical Step-by-Step Guide is a resource on how to document, assess, and address climate-related security risks at the local level. It outlines five steps…

Operationalising the Quad: Maritime Security and Climate Change in the Indo-Pacific

2024 | United States Studies Centre
Kate Clayton

This paper advances the case for enhanced Quad cooperation on maritime security and climate change. Climate change exacerbates prevailing maritime security challenges, including illegal fishing,…

Climate Security at NATO: Looking beyond Today’s Wars

2024 | Istituto Affari Internazionali
Louise van Schaik

The celebration of 75 years of NATO existence in Washington DC confirmed a remaining strong support to Ukraine and singled out China as enabler of…

Environmental Peacebuilding between India and Pakistan

2024 | Forbes
Saleem H. Ali

After almost a decade an Indian Foreign Minister is visiting Pakistan this week to attend the annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. While both countries have…

Cultivating Good Relations through Social and Community Farming

2024 | ARK
Jonny Hanson and Aoibeann Walsh

Social and community farming are similar approaches to connecting society with farming and farming with society. Their benefits are diverse and multidimensional, and can include social,…

A Forest Peacebuilding Mechanism for the World's Most Fragile States

2024 | Environmental Science and Policy
Claire G. Williams

Resource scarcity within a fragile state can lead to cooperation or within-state conflict. Cooperation is more likely when local peacebuilding mechanisms are part of a…

Regional Co-operation Strategy on Climate Change and Security in Central Asia’s High Mountain Areas

2024 | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Beatrice Mosello, Spencer Adrian McMurray, Lukas Rüttinger, and Alina Viehoff

This strategy presents a set of ideas for regional co-operation to jointly address climate-related security risks in Central Asia’s high mountain areas. It is an…

Exploring the Pakistan-India Water Dispute in the Context of Climate Change: An Environmental Security Perspective

2024 | Journal of Development and Social Sciences
Imran Zahoor and Zille Huma

This study delves into the intricate history and pivotal junctures of the Pakistan-India water dispute, examining its environmental dimensions through the lenses of environmental security…

Women and Indigenous Resource Conflict Resolution Options in Uganda’s Oil Region: A Case of Barazas

2024 | Mobility, Identity, and Conflict Resolution in Africa
Deborah Birungi, Nicholas Tunanukye, and John Mushomi Atwebembeire

Resource ownership has been associated with power, which has been greatly influenced by patriarchy. The role of women in organising, planning, allocating, and controlling the…

Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security

2024 | Island Press
Sherri Goodman

Threat Multiplier takes us onto the battlefield and inside the Pentagon to show how the US military is confronting the biggest security risk in global history:…

The Dawn of Climate Security (review of "Threat Multiplier")

2024 | Science
Saleem H. Ali

Militaries are major consumers of fossil fuels, and any curtailment of this demand for the purposes of reducing carbon emissions was initially perceived by US…

Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict—50 Years of Effort, and No End in Sight

2023 | Environment and Security
Michael Bothe

The debate about environmental protection in relation to armed conflict began around 1970 due to the meeting of two political movements: on the one hand,…