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Yemen: Head of Department, Food Security and Livelihoods

Oct 8, 2017 | Action Contre la Faim

Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian organization which originated in France and is committed to ending world hunger. The organization helps malnourished children whilst…


Kenya: Emergency Project Administrator Kenya | Somalia

Oct 8, 2017 | Cooperazione e Sviluppo Onlus

CESVI works around the world with the belief that helping people who are most in need and affected by wars, natural disasters and environmental disasters…


Iraq: Rehabilitation Technical Coordinator

Oct 8, 2017 | Handicap International

Handicap International is an independent and impartial aid and development organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. It works alongside disabled…


Yemen: Field Manager RRM/WASH/FSL

Oct 8, 2017 | Action Contre la Faim

Action against Hunger was founded in 1979 by a group of French intellectuals in response to the emergency in Afghanistan. These included Françoise Giroud, Bernard Henri…


Somalia: Final Project Evaluation

Oct 8, 2017 | CARE

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty and providing lifesaving assistance in emergencies. Its programmes go beyond meeting basic needs at the onset…


The Arctic: In the Face of Change, an Ocean of Cooperation

Oct 6, 2017 | Wilson Center Staff

“The United States and Russia… have found ways to continue to cooperate in the Arctic—particularly, but not only—through the Arctic Council, despite the difficulties on other issues relating…


China’s Water Grab in Tibet Risks Regional Devastation and Conflict

Oct 6, 2017 | Nithin Coca

China’s unchecked mining expansion and dam construction across the Tibetan plateau, compounded by climate change melting glaciers, are threatening the Yellow, Yangtze, Ganges and other…


Peace Consciousness and Food Security

Oct 6, 2017 | Louie Divinagracia

As the country celebrates national peace consciousness month, we are reminded about the role of peace in food security. Sometime last year, the Food and…


DRC: WASH & Infrastructure Advisor

Oct 6, 2017 | Medair

Medair helps people who are suffering in remote and devastated communities around the world survive crisis, recover with dignity, and develop skills to build a…


South Sudan: Food Security & Livelihood Project Manager - Yei

Oct 6, 2017 | Terre des Hommes

Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss NGO focusing on child rights. It is active in more than 30 countries with development and…


Jordan: Consortium Coordinator

Oct 6, 2017 | Action Contre la Faim

Action Against Hunger was founded in 1979 by a group of French intellectuals in response to the emergency in Afghanistan. While the fight against hunger had…


Tunisia: Livelihoods Feasibility Study Consultant

Oct 6, 2017 | Danish Refugee Council

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organisation, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people…


Overlooked and Misunderstood: Stories about Climate, Conflict, and Migration

Oct 6, 2017 | Bethany N. Bella

Barbuda—an island once full of people—has been rendered completely uninhabitable by Hurricane Irma. Every single resident was evacuated from the island, and some are not planning to return.…


Unraveling the Oil Geopolitics Intertwined in the Kurdish Independence Referendum

Oct 6, 2017 | Amy Myers Jaffe

For over a decade, U.S. efforts to promote stability across the Middle East have run afoul of many complexities. The recent independence referendum in the…


DRC: Livelihood Officer

Oct 6, 2017 | Danish Refugee Council

Danish Refugee Council has been operatingin the Middle East and North Africa for over a decade, running a combination of livelihood, protection, advocacy and relief…


Gender in Conflicts - Interview with Saferworld on Building Peace [Video]

Oct 6, 2017 | Climate Diplomacy

Saferworld is an international conflict prevention organization. The Head of Policy, Larry Attree, in this video, shares the lessons learned over the years to end…


Myanmar: Value of Seized Illegal Timber Rising Yearly

Oct 6, 2017 | Su Phyo Win, Myanmar TImes

The value of illegal timber seized by the government over the past five years have grown exponentially, according to latest government data, raising fears of…


Myanmar: Kachin Residents Attack Chinese Banana Farms

Oct 6, 2017 | Htun Lin Aung, Eleven

The residents of Tarlawgyi in Kachin state have sent a complaint to the state minister against Chinese tissue-culture banana farms, sources said. The complaint filed…


Iraq/Kurdistan: How a Russian Oil Giant Bankrolled the Kurdish Split from Iraq

Oct 6, 2017 | Greg Walters, VICE News

Virtually no one in the international community wanted Kurdistan to vote for independence. Yet Kurdistan’s President Masoud Barzani appeared unfazed. He pushed forward on his…


Myanmar: Myanmar Taps Israeli Expertise in Agriculture

Oct 6, 2017 | Thompson Chau, Myanmar TImes

Israeli expertise and technologies in agriculture are supporting Myanmar’s efforts in reforming its vast agriculture sector, while the recently enforced investment protection agreement is expected…


Colombia: The Future of Colombian Fruits Lies in Exports

Oct 6, 2017 | Fresh Plaza

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Colombia is the Latin American country with the third highest number of hectares…


Kurdish Independence: It’s All About the Oil

Oct 5, 2017 | Amy Myers Jaffe

For over a decade, U.S. efforts to promote stability across the Middle East have run afoul of many complexities. The recent independence referendum in the…


Iraq/Kurdistan/Turkey: Erdogan Says Turkey Will Close Iraq Border and Air Space Soon

Oct 5, 2017 | Ece Toksabay and Tuvan Gumrukcu, Reuters

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey would soon close its border with northern Iraq and shut its air space in response to last…


Colombia: 'There Is No Peace Here': Afro-Indigenous on Colombia

Oct 5, 2017 | teleSUR

Ensuring lasting peace means “protecting Afro-Colombian and Indigenous peoples' territorial and other collective rights,” said Charo Mina-Rojas. A slew of international human rights organizations, acting…


Sudan/South Sudan: War-Torn South Sudan Sees River Route Boosting Trade with Sudan

Oct 4, 2017 | Okech Francis, Bloomberg

South Sudan said it’s in talks with Sudan to restart river transport and boost trade between the two former foes, potentially easing the war-torn country’s…


Afghanistan: Farah Selenite Mine: Illegal Extraction Continues Unabated

Oct 4, 2017 | Benyamin Bariz, Pajhwok Afghan News

Selenite, a newly discovered mine in western Farah province, is being illegally extracted by powerful individuals and the stone smuggled to Herat and Iran. A…


Iraq: Iraq Hopes to Resume Production from Nineveh Oil Fields in Coming Months

Oct 3, 2017 | Reuters

Iraq hopes to resume production from the Nineveh oil fields in the “next few months” after they were torched by Islamic State during a U.S.-backed…


New Study: Clear Land Rights in Developing World Could Avoid Costly Disputes

Oct 3, 2017 | Astrid Zweynert, Christian Science Monitor

More than half of land rights conflicts in the developing world have not been resolved, pitting companies, governments, and businesses against indigenous communities, researchers said…


Myanmar: Ex-Ministers, Armed Groups Operate Farms in Kachin’s Conflict Areas

Oct 3, 2017 | Moe Myint, Irrawaddy

When clashes erupted along the Waingmaw-Laiza highway in 2011 and 2012, villagers fled their homes and farms and have still not returned as the two…


Everyone Wants Cobalt, but Few Want to Get Tangled up in the World’s Largest Producing Nation

Oct 2, 2017 | Lynsey Chutel

For too long, the Democratic Republic of Congo has known no competition in the cobalt market, to its detriment. The metal, which used to be…