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Applications Open for IPT Specialization Course on Environmental Peacebuilding

Jan 24, 2026 | Austrian Centre for Peace

Climate change and environmental degradation affect human security in diverse and intersecting ways and can amplify existing conflicts and humanitarian crises.Forced migration, internal displacement, and…

Why Sudan Is Drawing a Red Line around the Heglig Oil Field

Jan 23, 2026 | OilPrice.com

On the Sudan civil war front, the government is trying to draw a hard boundary around a shrinking but still critical part of the oil…

Afghanistan’s Secret Gold Rush Risks Poisoning Its Waters

Jan 23, 2026 | Shahla Muram and Nadja Kunz

Afghanistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change, and the largely hidden gold rush in Badakhshan is not only endangering the lives…

Afghanistan: Long-Awaited First Snowfall Brings Relief to Water-Scarce Kabul

Jan 23, 2026 | Aysha Safi
Agence France-Presse

Snow usually comes to the Afghan capital in December, but its six million inhabitants are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change, which has brought…

Nigeria: Ranching as a Path to Ending Herder–Farmer Conflicts

Jan 23, 2026 | Humaid Rabiu Shehu
PRNigeria

For decades, the farmers–herders conflict has ranked among Nigeria’s most persistent and destabilising internal security challenges. What began as seasonal disputes over land and water…

Myanmar: AA Discovers 78 Landmines over Two Days While Clearing Mines in Maungdaw

Jan 23, 2026 | Maung Sar Ga
Narinjara News

The Arakan Army (AA) has uncovered 78 landmines within a two-day mine clearance mission in Maungdaw Township, located on the western border of Rakhine State.

The…

Mali/Mauritania/Senegal: Senegal, Mali, Mauritania Launch $7M Cross-Border Water Project for Peace

Jan 22, 2026 | Lydie Mobio
Ecofin Agency

Senegal, Mali, and Mauritania have launched a cross-border project aimed at making sustainable water management a strategic tool for cooperation, peace, and climate resilience in…

Getting Critical Minerals Certification and Due Diligence Right in the DRC-Rwanda Accord and beyond (With a Lesson from a Punk Band?)

Jan 21, 2026 | Brad Brooks-Rubin

Most current analysis focuses on the core challenge of how critical minerals can be extracted in a smooth and efficient manner, on the one hand,…

DRC: DRC Offers US Access to Its Most Valuable Minerals

Jan 21, 2026 | Bashir Mbuthia
Eastleigh Voice

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has submitted a shortlist of state-owned mining assets to the United States for potential investment, giving Washington direct access…

Nature Loss Is a National Security Risk, Intelligence Group Warns

Jan 21, 2026 | Mark Poynting
BBC

The decline in the health of nature around the world poses a threat to the UK's security and prosperity, an intelligence committee has concluded in…

Syria: Syria’s Energy Sector Set to Get a Boost after Kurdish Oilfield Takeover

Jan 21, 2026 | Fareed Rahman
The National

The takeover of major oilfields by the Syrian government from Kurdish forces is expected to help Damascus boost its oil revenue and reduce imports. The…

Iraq: How Iraq’s Oil Sector Is Emerging as Battleground for Russia, US

Jan 21, 2026 | Mohanad Faris
Amwaj.media

Upending dynamics in Iraq’s energy sector, Baghdad has announced that it is nationalizing the West Qurna-2 oil field following the exit of the site’s Russian…

Water: Humanity Is Running out of Water and It Could Mean War, UN Warns

Jan 21, 2026 | Adam Vidler
9NEWS

Every human life, household, and community on the planet is sustained by water - to bathe, to grow food, and of course, to drink. And…

Afghanistan: Taliban Detain Protesters over Gold Mining Dispute in Takhar

Jan 21, 2026
Amu TV

Taliban intelligence forces have begun detaining protesters in Chah Ab district in northeastern province of Takhar, following weeks of unrest linked to gold mining activities,…

The Arctic Illusion: Why Greenland Proves That Climate Cooperation Is a Myth

Jan 20, 2026 | Anusreeta Dutta

For decades, the Arctic has been portrayed as an outlier in world politics, where science prevails over enmity and climate cooperation trumps strategic conflict. We…

Kurdistan’s Oil Lifeline at Risk as Baghdad Payments Fall Short Again

Jan 20, 2026 | Simon Watkins

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is once again edging toward a fiscal breaking point. Officials in its Erbil-based semi-autonomous regional government (KRG) say they…

Iraq: “Ecocide” in Iraq: Oil Expansion Threatens to Remove Hawizeh Marsh from the UNESCO List

Jan 20, 2026 | Haydar Al-Saadi, Hala Nasreddine, and Yann Philippin
Daraj

This investigation reveals that four oil and gas licenses in Iraq overlap with about 400 km² of land within roughly seven protected areas, most prominently…

Syria: Syria’s War-Ravaged Oil Sector Faces Tough Road to Recovery, Analysts Say

Jan 20, 2026 | John Power
Al Jazeera

The Syrian government’s takeover of key oil and gas fields from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the country’s northeast has raised hopes for…

CCT Workshop Scholarships Available! [Deadline: January 28, 2026]

Jan 20, 2026 | Center for Conservation Peacebuilding

CPeace is delighted to have received funding for four partial scholarships for its Fundamentals of CCT Workshop being held March 2nd–6th in Washington, DC. Each…

Call for Submissions — Environmental Research Letters Focus Issue: Focus on Initial and Enduring Environmental Consequences of Armed Conflict

Jan 20, 2026 | Environmental Research Letters

Recent years have seen a sharp rise in armed conflicts worldwide with some estimates pointing to a roughly 25% increase in conflict events each year…

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Applications Open for IPT Specialization Course on Environmental Peacebuilding

Why Sudan Is Drawing a Red Line around the Heglig Oil Field

Afghanistan’s Secret Gold Rush Risks Poisoning Its Waters

Afghanistan: Long-Awaited First Snowfall Brings Relief to Water-Scarce Kabul

Nigeria: Ranching as a Path to Ending Herder–Farmer Conflicts

Myanmar: AA Discovers 78 Landmines over Two Days While Clearing Mines in Maungdaw

Mali/Mauritania/Senegal: Senegal, Mali, Mauritania Launch $7M Cross-Border Water Project for Peace

Getting Critical Minerals Certification and Due Diligence Right in the DRC-Rwanda Accord and beyond (With a Lesson from a Punk Band?)

DRC: DRC Offers US Access to Its Most Valuable Minerals

Nature Loss Is a National Security Risk, Intelligence Group Warns

Syria: Syria’s Energy Sector Set to Get a Boost after Kurdish Oilfield Takeover

Iraq: How Iraq’s Oil Sector Is Emerging as Battleground for Russia, US

Water: Humanity Is Running out of Water and It Could Mean War, UN Warns

Afghanistan: Taliban Detain Protesters over Gold Mining Dispute in Takhar

The Arctic Illusion: Why Greenland Proves That Climate Cooperation Is a Myth

Kurdistan’s Oil Lifeline at Risk as Baghdad Payments Fall Short Again

Iraq: “Ecocide” in Iraq: Oil Expansion Threatens to Remove Hawizeh Marsh from the UNESCO List

Syria: Syria’s War-Ravaged Oil Sector Faces Tough Road to Recovery, Analysts Say

CCT Workshop Scholarships Available! [Deadline: January 28, 2026]

Call for Submissions — Environmental Research Letters Focus Issue: Focus on Initial and Enduring Environmental Consequences of Armed Conflict

Afghanistan: The Unseen Drought: How Widespread Female Illiteracy Threatens Water Conservation

Gold in Sudan: The Resource That Never Became Wealth — A Vast Asset with No Developmental Impact

Wars over Resources: A Persistent Driver of Security and Conflict

Israel/Palestine: From Ruins to Renewal: Gaza's Farmers Seek to Restore Harvests after Conflict

Nigeria/Kenya/Rwanda: Value Chain Strategy Lead (Fixed-Term)

Nigeria: Product Manager

Ukraine: Project Manager - Kharkiv/Kyiv

Afghanistan: Around 2.8 Million Afghan Refugees Returned; Thousands of Jeribs of Land Distributed to Them

Syria: Syrian Army Seizes Country's Largest Oil Field from Kurdish Forces

Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Heroin Boom Years Ended with US Military Exit, UN Report Shows