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India/Pakistan: Pakistan Suspends Trade with India, Says Diverting Indus Water ‘an Act of War’, Closes Air Space
Apr 25, 2025
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Shubhajit Roy
Indian Express
A day after India took several diplomatic measures against Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack, Islamabad said Thursday it “shall exercise the right to hold…
Illicit Mineral Supply Chains Fuel the DRC’s M23 Insurgency
Apr 23, 2025
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Clarkson Kamurai, Brad Handler, and Morgan Bazilian
The insurgency by M23 in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the latest example of the damage that can be wrought by…
The Cost of Conflict: Understanding the Health Consequences of War and Displacement
Apr 23, 2025
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Nour Suaaidi Amane
Peace and conflict, two words that are opposite, yet existing in the same world. For some people, life is marked by stability, access to healthcare…
Colombia: New Research Finds Substantial Peat Deposits in Colombia’s Conflicted Amazon
Apr 23, 2025
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Erik Iverson
Mongabay
In the heart of the Colombian Amazon, the towering mountains of the Serranía del Chiribiquete harbor secrets including South America’s oldest rock art. The remote…
A New Political and Funding Reality for Environmental Peacebuilding
Apr 22, 2025
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
The Trump administration’s January 2025 decision to freeze all foreign assistance funding has had massive and reverberating consequences for humanitarian, development and conservation programmes in…
Sierra Leone/Liberia: Conserving Gola Forest: Sierra Leone and Liberia Unite for Peace, Sustainability
Apr 22, 2025
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Seraphine Wakana
United Nations
The governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone, in partnership with the United Nations, have launched the Resilience, Empowerment, Access and Peacebuilding (GOLA-REAP) project, aimed at…
Water: How Conflict-Sensitive Water Management Builds Peace: Lessons from CGIAR’s Training with Egypt’s NWRC
Apr 22, 2025
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Ibukun Taiwo
CGIAR
Climate change is straining water supplies and heightening community tensions. Evidence shows that when water scarcity rises within certain contexts, the risk of conflict increases.…
Sierra Leone: From Blood Diamonds to Critical Minerals: Sierra Leone’s Mining Transformation
Apr 21, 2025
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Jason Mitchell
bne IntelliNews
Once defined by war and blood diamonds, Sierra Leone is now looking to turn its rich but underdeveloped mineral base – iron ore, gold, rutile…
Ethiopia: Supporting Inclusive Customary Institutions for Environmental Peacebuilding in Tigray-Afar Region, Ethiopia
Apr 21, 2025
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Luca Kroese
Tropenbos International
In Ethiopia’s Tigray-Afar border region, pressure on natural resources has grown following years of conflict. With support from PENHA, customary leaders known as Abogerebs (“fathers…
Iraq: Consultant for Conducting Agro-Ecological Practices and Seed Multiplication Systems, in the Governorate of Anbar and Salah al Din Governorates, in Fed
Apr 20, 2025
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Oxfam
Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Across regions, from the local to the global, Oxfam…
Iraq: Study on Investments in Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus, focusing on promoting Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) (Consultancy)
Apr 20, 2025
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Oxfam
Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Across regions, from the local to the global, Oxfam…
Food Security, Peace and Stability: A Review of CGIAR’s Role in Fragile and Conflict Affected States (Consultancy)
Apr 20, 2025
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CGIAR
Conflict and insecurity are major drivers of food insecurity and the highest numbers of people facing acute food insecurity are found in fragile and conflict…
Liberia: Gov’t Cracks Down on Illegal Wetland Encroachers
Apr 18, 2025
Observer
The Government has taken a firm stance against the persistent encroachment and destruction of protected wetlands across the country, and as such began a massive…
Colombia: Armed Groups, Cattle Ranchers Drove 35% Rise in Colombia’s Deforestation in 2024
Apr 18, 2025
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Antonio José Paz Cardona
Mongabay
The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last…
Conflict-Monitoring Collective Wins European Space Agency Earth Observation Excellence Award
Apr 17, 2025
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
The Decentralized Damage Mapping Group — an international collective of academics and civil society organisations — has advanced the use of satellite analysis to document the…
DRC: Blackwater Founder and Trump Ally Strikes Mineral Security Deal with Congo
Apr 17, 2025
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Mining.com
Former Blackwater chief executive officer and Donald Trump supporter, Erik Prince, will lead a team helping the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) secure and tax…
Ukraine: Ukraine Says Pact Signed with US Is First Step towards Minerals Deal
Apr 17, 2025
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Reuters
Ukraine said on Thursday Kyiv and Washington had signed a memorandum as an initial step towards clinching an agreement on developing mineral resources in Ukraine,…
Negotiations at Gunpoint: Does US Pressure on Ukraine for a Minerals Deal Amount to Unlawfully Procuring a Treaty by Use of Force?
Apr 17, 2025
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Jeremy Pizzi and Maksym Vishchyk
American attempts to coerce Ukraine into giving up its valuable mineral resources are unseemly, but they may also threaten the validity of such a deal…
South Sudan: Climate Resilience Expert
Apr 17, 2025
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Welthungerhilfe
Welthungerhilfe (WHH) is one of the largest private aid organizations in Germany, without political or religious affiliation. Since WHH was founded in 1962 each sitting…
Afghanistan: In One of Afghanistan’s Driest and Poorest Provinces, Climate Change Is Making Farming Unviable
Apr 16, 2025
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Mina Widi and Keyoor Pathak, DownToEarth
In Afghanistan, mountains have always been a major source of water for livelihood and irrigation activities, as snow and seasonal rains that fall in the…
Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan/Uzbekistan: Territorial Disputes no Longer Threaten Peace and Stability in Central Asia
Apr 16, 2025
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Nurbek Bekmurzaev, Eurasia Daily Monitor
On March 31, three Central Asian states entered a new era of regional cooperation by resolving their last remaining territorial dispute. The presidents of Kyrgyzstan,…
From Risk to Resilience by Securing Wildlife Stockpiles in Liberia, Sierra Leone
Apr 16, 2025
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Charles Henson
The authors recently traveled to Sierra Leone and Liberia as part of an Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation (EPIF) project to help improve the security of wildlife…
BRICS: An Environmental Cooperation Opportunity for Half the World's Population
Apr 15, 2025
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Shina Ansari
The modern world is grappling with a series of profound environmental and social challenges. Although these issues are frequently mentioned in diplomatic meetings, negotiations, and…
South Sudan: South Sudan Banks on World’s Largest Mammal Migration to Boost Tourism
Apr 15, 2025
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Dickens H. Okello, ChimpReports
South Sudan is ramping up efforts to position itself as a premier ecotourism destination by leveraging the global spotlight on the Great Nile Migration—now officially…
Security Aspects of Climate Change
Apr 15, 2025
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Yasuko Kameyama
Climate change is unarguably the most urgent issue threatening human society. The global average temperature in 2024 was the highest in recorded history, reaching 1.55…
Colombia: Coordinador/a de Proyecto
Apr 15, 2025
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Cooperazione Internazionale
COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale es una organización humanitaria laica e independiente italiana que lucha contra todas las formas de pobreza para mejorar el mundo. Fundada en…
Canada: Sustainability and Data Analyst, Bloom by IMPACT
Apr 15, 2025
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IMPACT Transforming Natural Resource Management
IMPACT, formerly Partnership Africa Canada, has been transforming how natural resources are managed in areas where security and human rights are at risk for over…
Regeneration and Care: A Paradigm Shift
Apr 15, 2025
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Abigail Robinson and Emilia Stark
Interlocking Crises and Old Paradigms
A growing number of communities worldwide are affected by a changing climate, widespread harm to the environment, and the risks of…
Last Call: 2025 Gender Interest Group Survey
Apr 15, 2025
EnPax Gender Interest Group
Fill out our 2025 Gender Interest Group Survey here! Deadline: April 30th
Africa: Great Lakes Region’s Mineral Certification Faces Scrutiny 14 Years on
Apr 14, 2025
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Ronald Musoke, Independent
Fourteen years since 12 governments in the Great Lakes region unanimously agreed to create a foolproof international system for certifying and auditing minerals that have…