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DRC: Consultancy: Participatory Mapping and Land Use Planning
Jan 23, 2018
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Rainforest Foundation UK
The rainforest is a home, a habitat, a shelter, a pharmacy, a supermarket and an ecosystem that supports many lives and livelihoods. For the indigenous…
Sierra Leone: Programme Manager
Jan 23, 2018
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COOPI
COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale has been working in Sierra Leone since 1971. COOPI is currently implementing several projects in Sierra Leone mainly in the areas of…
Sudan: WASH Programme Manager
Jan 23, 2018
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CARE
CARE seeks a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live with dignity and security.
This has been CARE's…
Iraq: Field Coordinator
Jan 23, 2018
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Handicap International
Handicap International is an independent and impartial aid and development organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside disabled…
Conflict Minerals: Gold Market Mulling Blockchain for $200 Billion of Supply
Jan 23, 2018
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Eddie Van Der Walt and Ranjeetha Pakiam, Bloomberg
Gold is going digital. Blockchain technology may help keep track of the roughly $200 billion of the precious metal dug from remote mines, traded by…
Afghanistan: Afghan Land Endangered by Amu River
Jan 23, 2018
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Samiullah Saihoon, Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Afghan officials are warning that work carried out to shore up the Amu river by countries upstream is causing serious flooding and the destruction of…
Iran: Water Conflict: Will a Drying Iran Face Syria’s Fate?
Jan 23, 2018
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Erik Khzmalyan, Geopolitical Monitor
Perhaps one of the most quoted predictions regarding the increasing role of water conflicts in global affairs belongs to former vice-president of the World Bank…
Call for Abstracts: Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability Biennial Conference
Jan 22, 2018
You are invited to submit an abstract for possible inclusion in the 2019 WESIPS (Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability) Biennial Conference.
WESIPS Conference Dates: 23-25 May,…
China/Southeast Asia: Return to Conflict for the Mekong River Delta?
Jan 21, 2018
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C. Danielle Bizier, SOFREP
For years, the principal narrative has been a world attempting to keep China’s maritime ambitions in check in the South China Sea. With one-third of…
Egypt/Ethiopia: Ethiopia Leader Rejects Call for World Bank Arbitration in Dam Dispute
Jan 21, 2018
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Aaron Maasho, Reuters
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has rejected a call by Egypt for World Bank arbitration in a dispute over a hydroelectric dam Addis Ababa is…
Myanmar: Thousands of Tons of Illegal Timber Seized in Nine Months
Jan 20, 2018
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Eleven
Myanmar seized more than 35,000 tons of illegal timber in nine months of fiscal year 2017-18, according to the Forest Department. The seized illegal timber…
South China Sea: Quiet Cooperation Eases Safety Risks in South China Sea
Jan 20, 2018
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Voice of America
Recently, an Iranian oil tanker exploded and sank after hitting a Chinese ship in the East China Sea. Investigators are still looking for a cause…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Kurdish Oil Exports Must Come under Iraqi Control, Abadi Tells PM Barzani in Baghdad
Jan 20, 2018
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Rudaw
Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has met with his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi in Baghdad on Saturday, just a day before he is scheduled to…
Egypt/Ethiopia: Nile River Is Source of Development Not Conflict: Al-Sisi
Jan 20, 2018
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Daily News Egypt
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn signed Thursday several bilateral agreements in context of Desalegn€™s first visit to Egypt. The signing…
Climate Security: From Analysis to Action - High Profile Experts Launch Declaration on Climate and Security
Jan 20, 2018
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Climate Diplomacy
In December, the leading lights of the climate and security community launched an unprecedented declaration to catalyse action in the field in front of 350…
A Tale of Two Policies: Climate Change, Trump, and the US Military
Jan 19, 2018
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Sean Mowbray
The U.S. government appears to be of two minds, with utterly opposing worldviews, on climate change policy. On one hand, the Trump Administration has pulled out…
Criminal Elements: Illegal Wildlife Trafficking, Organized Crime, and National Security
Jan 19, 2018
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Saiyara Khan
“The same criminals that are trafficking in drugs, guns, and people, traffic in wildlife,” said Christine Dawson, the director of the Office of Conservation and…
Myanmar: Kachin IDPs Fear Land Grabs in the Villages They Once Called Home
Jan 19, 2018
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Htun Khaing, Frontier
Companies are establishing banana plantations on land in Kachin State left idle and untended because of fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence Army,…
Central Africa’s Iconic Mammals Threatened by Poachers, Armed Groups – UN Environment Wing
Jan 19, 2018
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UN
Elephants, giraffes, rhinos and other magnificent mammals targeted in wildlife conservation areas of Central Africa are under threat of extinction, caught in the crosshairs of…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Kurdish Gas Project Gets Boost amid Political Tumult
Jan 19, 2018
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Angelina Rascouet, Bloomberg
Plans to export natural gas from Iraqi Kurdistan got a boost after reserves were upgraded at two key fields. Yet successful development still hinges on…
Nigeria: NEC Constitutes Committee to Tackle Conflict Between Herdsmen and Farmers
Jan 19, 2018
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Omololu Ogunmade, Paul Obi, and Victor Ogunje, This Day
The National Economic Council rose from its first meeting this year in the State House, Abuja, thursday and announced that it has set up a…
Iraq/Islamic State: ISIL Is Lighting Oil Wells on Fire as They Retreat, and No One Is Paying Attention
Jan 18, 2018
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Zoë Schlanger, Quartz
When ISIL retreats from an area in Iraq, they usually bomb anything that supports the local economy. Most of the time, that means they bomb…
Iraq/Kurdistan: BP to Help Iraq Boost Oil Flow at Fields Retaken From Kurds
Jan 18, 2018
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Khalid Al-Ansary, Kadhim Ajrash, and Bruce Stanley, Bloomberg
BP Plc agreed to help increase crude production at northern Iraq’s Kirkuk fields as the government pushes to restore output and exporting capacity after recapturing…
Egypt/Ethiopia: Egypt, Ethiopia Look to Avoid Conflict over Nile Dam
Jan 18, 2018
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Reuters
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged on Thursday not to let differences over a dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile river ruin relations with…
Climate Change: Climate Change Is National Security Risk, Congress Members Warn
Jan 18, 2018
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Randy Showstack, Eos
A bipartisan group of more than 100 members of Congress has urged U.S. president Donald Trump to recognize climate change as a national security risk,…
DRC: DRC Revises Mining Code to Capitalise on Cobalt Boom
Jan 18, 2018
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eNCA
As demand for batteries drives a surge in the price of cobalt, the Democratic Republic of Congo is gearing up to overhaul its mining regulations…
Myanmar: Myanmar to Target Illegal Charcoal Trade with China
Jan 18, 2018
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Mongabay
Myanmar has pledged to stem the massive tide of charcoal being illegally harvested, produced and exported from their forests to Chinese factories. Last week a…
Colombia/Somaliland/Somalia: Incorporation of Ex-Combatants in Humanitarian Demining Lessons from Colombia, Somaliland & Southern Somalia
Jan 18, 2018
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Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Laurie Druelle, Instituto Igarapé
As part of the peace effort between the Colombian government and the FARC, a pilot program was launched in 2015 allowing ex-combatants from the guerrilla…
Iran: Warming, Water Crisis, Then Unrest: How Iran Fits an Alarming Pattern
Jan 18, 2018
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Somini Sengupta, New York Times
Nigeria. Syria. Somalia. And now Iran. In each country, in different ways, a water crisis has triggered some combination of civil unrest, mass migration, insurgency…
Afghanistan: Mining Plan to Increase National Revenue: Ministry of Mines
Jan 18, 2018
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Zabihullah Jehanmal, TOLOnews
Officials from the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) on Wednesday said that with the implementation of the mining plan, Afghanistan will vastly increase its…