Cooperation
Regional Environmental Cooperation between Israel and Its Neighbors
2023
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Middle East Institute
Nimrod Goren, Ofir Winter, and Maya Negev
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…
Water Security: Stakeholders’ Arena in the Awash River Basin of Ethiopia
2017
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Sustainable Water Resources Management
Reta Hailu, Degefa Tolossa, and Getnet Alemu
Water insecurity is a growing challenge manifested from global to local scales. This paper examines stakeholders and their roles to tackle the challenges of water…
Multi-Stakeholder Platforms: Institutional Options to Achieve Water Security in the Awash Basin of Ethiopia
2020
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World Development Perspectives
Reta Hailu and Degefa Tolossa
Securing water resources under common pool resources regime is becoming a challenge without proper collective actions. This paper explores Multi-stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) as a ‘soft…
Politics of the Olive Branch: Environmental Peacebuilding and the Nexus of Natural Resources, Violent Conflict, and Peace Nexus of Natural Resources, Violent Conflict, and Peace
2023
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Loyola Marymount University
Lindley Saffeir
At the intersection of the natural environment, conflict, and peace, the study and practice of environmental peacebuilding rests on the recognition that thoughtful management and…
Implications of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine for the Governance of Biodiversity Conservation
2023
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Global Biodiversity Threats
Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, Nives Dolšak, Aseem Prakash, Taej Mundkur, Paul G. Harris, Ronald B. Mitchell, Nick Davidson, Birgita Hansen, Bradley K. Woodworth, Richard A. Fuller, Melissa Price, Nicky Petkov, Volker Mauerhofer, Tiffany H. Morrison, James E. M. W
Maintaining peace and conserving biodiversity hinge on an international system of cooperation codified in institutions, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brings recent progress to a…
Conceptualizing Community-Based Environmental Peacebuilding in Cesar, Colombia
2023
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Human Ecology
Samyra Hachmann, Katharina Löhr, Héctor Morales-Muñoz, Luca Eufemia, Stefan Sieber, and Michelle Bonatti
In conflict studies, environmental peacebuilding (EPB) has become an established concept to explain how environmental cooperation among opposing parties provides a platform for peacebuilding. EPB…
Examining the Scope of Nuclear Weapons-Related Activities Covered under the Environmental Remediation Obligation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
2022
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Asian Journal of International Law
Christopher P. Evans
The entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in January 2021 has sparked much discussion of the Treaty's positive…
Management Plans as Resources in Conservation Conflicts
2023
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Environmental Policy and Governance
Taru Peltola, Isabelle Arpin, Johanna Leino, Lasse Peltonen, Outi Ratamäki, and Pekka Salmi
This article examines the capacity of management plans to respond to conflicts arising in conservation planning and management. As a widely adopted policy tool for…
Towards Sustainable Transboundary Water Cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan: A Case Study of Kabul River
2023
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Ain Shams Engineering Journal
Ajmal Khan Shams and Nur Shazwani Muhammad
Afghanistan has been trying hard to gradually develop its largely underused water resources. The transboundary Kabul River basin (KRB) between Afghanistan and Pakistan contributes almost…
The Hydropolitics of Upper Karabakh, with Emphasis on the Border Conflicts and Wars between Azerbaijan and Armenia
2023
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GeoJournal
Seyed Abbas Ahmadi, Hamed Hekmatara, Hassan Noorali, Michael Campana, Ali Sadeghi, and Farshad Pazhoh
Upper Karabakh region has become a permanent point of conflict between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia with the weakening and collapse of the Russian…
Damming Disputes: Conflict Prevention in Water Management
2023
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Water
David Katz and Nidhi Nagabhatla
Water has a unique combination of qualities that contributes to the many conflicts with respect to its control and use. Water is necessary for the…
The Power of Real-World Qualitative Assessments for Addressing Climate Security Risks
2023
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Climate Diplomacy
Hector Morales-Munoz
Qualitative research can uncover hidden drivers and connectors, reveal unintended consequences, and generate contextualised and actionable knowledge by delving into the lived experiences, perceptions, values,…
Comparing Responses to Climate-Related Security Risks among the EU, NATO and the OSCE
2023
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Anniek Barnhoorn
This SIPRI Policy Report compares responses to climate-related security risks by the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Organization for…
Conceptualizing Community‑Based Environmental Peacebuilding in Cesar, Colombia
2023
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Human Ecology
Samyra Hachmann, Katharina Löhr, Héctor Morales‑Muñoz, Luca Eufemia, Stefan Sieber, and Michelle Bonatti
In conflict studies, environmental peacebuilding (EPB) has become an established concept to explain how environmental cooperation among opposing parties provides a platform for peacebuilding. EPB…
International Water Comprehensive Organization (IWCO): Creating Alliances for Improved Water Management and Solving Water Conflicts
2023
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AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society
Babak Abdia, Omid Bozorg-Haddad, and Hugo A. Loáiciga
International organizations constitute the basis to increase water co-operation, prevent or reduce the possibility of conflicts between countries, and, were they to occur, achieve co-operation…
Exploring the Nexus between Transitional Justice and Ecoterritorial Conflict Resolution: Time for an Ecoterritorial Turn in Transformative Transitional Justice?
2023
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International Journal of Transitional Justice
Sarah Kerremans and Tine Destrooper
This article explores the nexus between ecoterritorial conflict resolution and transformative transitional justice, against the background of (neo)extractivism and the Peruvian case of half a…
Environmental Cooperation between Israel and Its Neighbors [Video]
2023
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University of California, Los Angeles
Alon Tal and Dov Waxman
The Middle East is considered a “climate hot spot," which is already showing extreme weather conditions and ecological damage, but this difficult reality also offers…
The Dual Track of Democracy Promotion in Post-War Peacebuilding in Cambodia: The Gap Between Institutional Development and Civil Society Mobilisation
2018
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Peacebuilding
SungYong Lee and Park WookBoem
Through consideration of the promotion of democracy in post-war reconstruction in the country, this article aims to explain why anti-government protests in Cambodia have recently…
Swedish Development Cooperation in Transition? Lessons and Reflections from 71 Sida Decentralised Evaluations (April 2011-April 2013)
2013
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Sida Studies in Evaluation
Ian Christoplos, Anna L. Hedqvist, and Jessica Rothman
This report presents the findings of a review of 71 decentralised evaluations of Swedish development cooperation carried out during 2011-2013, through Sida’s framework agreement for…
Remembering the Red Sea Marine Peace Park
2016
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Marine Transboundary Conservation and Protected Areas
Michelle Portman and Yael Teff-Seker
This chapter aims to share the background of the Marine peace park (MPP) Korea initiative and explores implications and lessons from the experience of the…
Peacebuilding Without Peace? On How Pragmatism Complicates the Practice of International Intervention
2020
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Review of International Studies
Pol Bargués
The International Relations (IR) literature has strongly criticised the invasive and top-down nature of liberal peace, facilitating a reinterpretation of the practice of international intervention…
Negotiating in a Coordination Network of Citizen Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Georgian-Abkhaz Peace Process
2006
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International Negotiation (Hague, Netherlands)
Sus A. Nan and Paula Garb
This article analyzes a set of negotiations within a coordination network. These negotiations surrounded the establishment and development of a coordination network of citizen peacebuilding…
Land and natural disasters: guidance for practitioners
2010
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Daniel Fitzpatrick
The Guidelines provide a holistic approach to addressing land issues from the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster through early recovery and reconstruction phases. It…
Impact and Outcomes: The Ethical Perils of Distancing in Peacebuilding Grant Solicitation
2016
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Reina Neufeldt
This paper explores the moral values that are embedded in peacebuilding funder discourse that affect the focus and locus of peacebuilding projects. The paper analyses…
Help or Hinrance? Results-Orientation in Conflict-Affected Situations
2013
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Swiss Peace
Stefan Bachtold, Roland Dittli, and Sylvia Servaes
Results-orientation, impact assessment, and value for money have been creating a growing buzz in the fields of international cooperation and peacebuilding for the last few…
Examining the Role of WASH Services Within Peace- and Statebuilding Processes
2012
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Tearfund
Leni WIld and Nathaniel Mason
This synthesis report presents the findings of a one-year research project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by Tearfund and ODI,…
Disaster Risk Reduction Amidst Armed Conflict: Informal Institutions, Rebel Groups, and Wartime Political Orders
2018
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Disasters
Colin Walsh
Extant research has explored the effect of natural hazards on the risk of armed conflict, but very few studies have examined how conflict dynamics affect…
Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue to Manage Natural Resource Competition: A Synthesis of Lessons from Uganda, Zambia, and Cambodia
2017
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International Journam of the Commons
Blake D. Ratner, Clementine Burnley, Samuel Mugisha, Elias Madzudzo, Il Oeur, Kosal Mam, Lukas Ruttinger, Loziwe N. Chilufya, and Paola Adriazola
Rural development or natural resource management program planning and implementation frequently confront challenges of environmental resource competition and conflict, particularly where common pool resources are…
Every Practitioner a “Knowledge Worker”: Promoting Evaluative Thinking to Enhance Learning and Adaptive Management in International Development
2018
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New Directions for Evaluation
Thomas Archibald, Guy Sharrock, Jane Buckley, and Stacey Young
International community development involves complex, dynamic processes. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) designed to promote evaluative thinking among community development practitioners can foster more complexity-aware monitoring…
Evaluation Report on Supporting Systemic and Participatory Mediation Approaches Within Local Peace Committees Implemented by CSSP and CPRP in Dhading and Rautahat in 2012
2012
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Berlin Centre for Integrative Mediation
Prem R. Ojha
The CSSP, Germany and CPRP, Nepal designed “Supporting systemic and participatory mediation approaches within Local Peace Committees” project which has been implemented in Dhading and…