Cooperation
Competition and Cooperation in the Exploitation of the Ground Water Resource
2018
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Decisions in Economics and Finance
Marta Biancardi and Lucia Maddalena
We study the exploitation of a common groundwater resource, first as a static and then as a differential game, in order to take into account…
Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes
2024
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Pacific Forum International
Lily Schlieman, Maryruth Belsey Priebe, Charity Borg, Anny Barlow, and Tevvi Bullock
The Coral Triangle is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity and provides food security to over 130 million people living in and around the region.…
Competition and Cooperation in the Exploitation of the Ground Water Resource
2018
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Decisions in Economics and Finance
Marta Biancardi and Lucia Maddalena
We study the exploitation of a common groundwater resource, first as a static and then as a differential game, in order to take into account…
Keynote Address: Moving From Climate Change as a `Threat Multiplier’ to Climate Action as a `Peace Multiplier’
2024
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The Wilson Center
Sherri Goodman
On June 19, 2024, Wilson Center Fellow Sherri Goodman delivered a keynote address at the Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding in The Hague, Netherlands.…
Integrating Socio-Hydrology, and Peace and Conflict Research
2024
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Journal of Hydrology
Stefan Döring, Kyungmee Kim, and Ashok Swain
Socio-hydrology strives to incorporate 'the social' into the understanding of hydrological processes, aiming to enrich the analysis of water systems by considering human interactions. While…
On Dialogue and Beyond: Positive Environmental Peacebuilding in Palestine
2024
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Journal of Social Encounters
Elsa Barron
In Palestine, environmental management has been used as a tool of military occupation and oppression. Yet even within that context, many community-based organizations have established…
Renewable Energy Diplomacy and Transitions: An Environmental Peacebuilding Approach
2024
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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Mirza Sadaqat
Energy diplomacy is one of the key determinants in achieving net zero emissions by 2050. The traditional concept of energy diplomacy is rooted in national…
Environmental Peacebuilding: Moving beyond Resolving Violence-Ridden Conflicts to Sustaining Peace
2024
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World Development
Udi Sommer and Francesca Fassbender
The literature on environmental peacebuilding (EP) is focused on overcoming or preventing violent conflict using environmental collaboration (EC), typically on common environmental issues between two…
A Crisis for Peace? Climate Change, Environmental Peacebuilding and Interfaith Harmony in Indonesia
2024
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Journal of Law and Social Transformation
Annisa Nabilatul Khaira and Munif Arif Ranti
This research aims to analyze mutually reinforcing relations between climate change and interfaith harmony. Interfaith peace in the context of climate change can be created…
Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel
2024
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Global Environmental Politics
Rina Kedem, Eran Feitelson, Suleiman Halasah, and Yael Teff-Seker
Mismatches between natural systems and political boundaries often hamper environmental management and conservation efforts. As the number of transboundary environmental cooperation (TEC) initiatives increases, it…
From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding: Exploring Local Dimensions
2024
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Environment and Security
Jan Sandig, Natalia Dalmer, Tobias Ide, and Anselm Volger
Environmental change and armed conflict are major challenges of the 21st century. Meanwhile, scholars and practitioners increasingly recognize the environment and natural resources as not…
How Does Climate Change Affect Peace and Security?
2024
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Cedric de Coning and Kheira Tarif
Climate change is fundamentally changing human security, ecological security and even international security. There is growing evidence of its impacts on peace and conflict, which is reflected…
Theories of International Relations and the Hydropolitical Cycle: The Hydro-Trap and the Anarchic Nature of Water Conflict
2024
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Springer Water
Sameh W.H. Al-Muqdadi
Transboundary water challenges have prompted by many scholars to investigate the relationship between water conflict/cooperation and International Relations theories. To connect theory with practice, this…
Knowledge Co-Production around the Cormorant-Fishing Conflict Using a Joint Fact-Finding Approach
2024
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Environmental Science and Policy
Heli Saarikoski, Suvi Vikström, and Lasse Peltonen
The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) has been a persistent source of human–wildlife conflicts in the Baltic Sea area. Fishers have perceived cormorants as competitors for…
Can Water Help Quench the Flames of Hostility? How Shared Waters Can Promote Dialogue During Conflict
2023
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SAIS Review of International Affairs
Alexandra Turgul, Zoe H. Rosenblum, Melissa McCracken, Susanne Schmeier, and Aaron T. Wolf
Grounded in the water diplomacy and environmental peacebuilding literatures, our article poses the question: Are there settings of existing or potential international conflict where shared…
Infographic: Climate Change, Conflict and Peace
2023
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Conciliation Resources
Our climate and environment is changing at a rate never seen before in human history. The way we respond to these changes has the potential…
Protection of the Environment during Armed Conflict
2023
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International Review of the Red Cross
Bruno Demeyere
It has been well over a decade since the International Review of the Red Cross dedicated an issue entirely to the environment, and since then,…
Conflict in South Asia: Water Scarcity, Conservation, and Politics
2023
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Pakistan Horizon
Reumah Suhail
This paper analyses the water dilemma in South Asia. The first part looks at water availability in the region followed by an analysis of neighbourly…
Immaterial Infrastructures and Conflict in the Salween River Basin
2023
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Water Alternatives
Stew Motta, Aaron T. Wolf, and E. Lisa F. Schipper
This paper historicises Burmese and Thai efforts to cooperate around hydraulic infrastructure construction in the conflictual Salween landscape. Transboundary water governance literature focuses on the
material…
Interventions Addressing Conflict in Communities Hosting Climate-Influenced Migrants: Literature Review
2023
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Environment and Security
Linlang He, Elizabeth Kreske, Stephanie J. Nawyn, Amber L. Pearson, Mark Axelrod, Yadu Pokhrel, Stephen Gasteyer, Sean Lawrie, and Anthony D. Kendall
Existing scholarship hypothesizes a causal chain from climate change to resource availability constraints, to forced migration and conflict risks. Limited research, however, synthesizes findings about…
Resolving Conservation Conflicts through Shared Vision, Collective Benefits, and Relevant Values
2023
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Diversity
Antoinette van de Water, Suzan Doornwaard, Liesbeth Sluiter, Michelle Henley, Catherine Sutherland, and Rob Slotow
The global challenges of biodiversity loss and persistent poverty and inequality, which interact and shape each other at the local scale, require new strategies to…
Decolonizing Peacebuilding Research in Africa through Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Experience of Igbo-Speaking Group of Niger-Delta Region, Nigeria (chapter in "Decolonizing Peace and Conflict Studies through Indigenous Research")
2022
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Springer
Ferbinand O. Ottoh
This chapter examines the decolonization of peacebuilding research in Africa through Indigenous knowledge systems using the Igbo-speaking group of the Niger-Delta region, Nigeria as a…
Givers of Great Dinners Know Few Enemies: The Impact of Household Food Sufficiency and Food Sharing on Low-Intensity Inter-Household and Community Conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
2023
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Journal of Development Studies
Naureen Fatema and Shahriar Kibriya
This study establishes a linkage between household food sufficiency and food sharing behaviour with the reduction of low-intensity, micro level conflict using primary data from…
Geopolitics of Climate Change and Water Security in South Asia: Conflict and Cooperation
2023
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Science, Policies, and Conflicts of Climate Change
Dhanasree Jayaram and Gaurica Sethi
South Asia’s climate vulnerabilities have direct and indirect implications for water security. While the effects of climate change on water access, safety, and affordability in…
Four Climate Frontiers: How Mediators Can Make Peace and Help Protect the Planet
2023
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Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Sebastian Kratzer
For the peace mediation sector, four “frontiers” lie ahead if we hope to help prevent the worst outcomes of climate change and environmental degradation. This…
Drought Exposure Decreases Altruism with Salient Group Identities as Key Moderator
2023
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Nature Climate Change
Stefan Döring and Jonathan Hall
Previous research on climate change impact regularly considers conflict outcomes, thereby disregarding cooperative behaviour such as altruism. Drought has the potential to fuel inter-ethnic cleavages,…
From Tel Aviv to Sharm el-Sheiikh: Obstacles and Keys to Environmental Peacebuilding between Israel and Egypt
2022
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Strategic Assessment
Moshe Terdiman, Ofir Winter, Morr Link, and Tal Angert
The Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), held in Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2022, cast a spotlight on Egypt and its commitment to environmental reform.…
Community Voices on Climate and Security: A Social Learning Approach
2023
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CGIAR Climate Security Observatory Methods Papers Series
Leonardo Medina, Grazia Pacillo, Jonathan James Hellin, and Michelle Bonatti
The linkages between climate change and human insecurity have been the subject of considerable debate over the past decade. Critical voices argue that methods for…
Conceptualizing Resilience within Environmental Peacebuilding
2023
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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
McKenzie F. Johnson, Tobias Ide, and Jesann Gonzalez Cruz
Environmental peacebuilding integrates sustainable natural resource management into peacebuilding processes to promote peace and stability. Environmental peacebuilding scholars increasingly view resilience as an important concept.…
Report Launch: Environmental Cooperation Between Israel and its Arab and Muslim Neighbors [Video]
2023
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Middle East Institute
Mohammed Mahmoud, Nimrod Goren, Gidon Bromberg, Galit Cohen, and Dov Khenin
As environmental challenges become a priority for countries across the Middle East and the Mediterranean, this creates new opportunities for regional environmental cooperation, including between…