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Beyond the UN Security Council: Can the UN General Assembly Tackle the Climate–Security Challenge?
Jun 20, 2023
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Adam Day and Florian Krampe
The wildfires raging in Canada are yet another reminder that climate change is already having an impact on all our lives. As the smoke clears…
Opinion: Make Climate Finance Inclusive for Just Transition to Net Zero
Jun 20, 2023
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Jyotsna Puri and Pablo Vieira
Beyond the UN Security Council: Can the UN General Assembly Tackle the Climate–Security Challenge?
Jun 20, 2023
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Adam Day and Florian Krampe
Despite the evidence, and despite the Security Council having already passed more than 70 resolutions and statements on climate-related security risks, efforts to make climate…
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Blocks UN Aid for Kakhovka Dam Collapse Victims
Jun 19, 2023
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Al Jazeera
Moscow has rejected United Nations’ offers to help people in Russian-occupied areas affected by flooding from the collapsed Nova Kakhovka Dam. The dam was breached…
2023 GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security [Deadline: September 25, 2023]
Jun 17, 2023
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Geneva Center for Security Policy
The GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security welcomes contributions from all disciplines and fields, embracing a diverse range of approaches towards advancing sustainable global…
Call for Abstracts: 2024 WESIPS Conference in Seville, Spain
Jun 17, 2023
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Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability
The organizers are seeking papers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical approaches addressing one or more of the following topics: Prehistoric/historic/contemporary warfare, ritual…
Climate Response for Drylands Must Include Women
Jun 17, 2023
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Tiina Vähänen and Fidaa F. Haddad
In the world’s drylands, which are home to nearly 40% of the global population, women are feeling the effects of climate change. Droughts and land…
Iraq: Drought Forces Iraqi Fishermen to Abandon Their Nets [Photos]
Jun 16, 2023
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Bilind T. Abdullah, Rudaw
Water levels have declined by nearly 50 percent in Dhi Qar province’s al-Hammar Marshes in recent years, leaving hundreds of fishermen without jobs. Hammar, one…
How Environmental Conflicts Hurt — and Motivate — Women Activists
Jun 15, 2023
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Katie Myers, Grist
Even when governments concede to environmentalists, women are often left out of negotiations.
Iraq/Kurdistan: New Iraqi Budget Law Strengthens Baghdad's Hand over Kurdistan Region's Oil Sector
Jun 15, 2023
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Wladimir van Wilgenburg, S&P Global
Already reeling from the months-long suspension of its crude exports, Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan region may see its lifeblood oil sector further hemmed in with the…
How Environmental Conflicts Hurt — and Motivate — Women Activists
Jun 15, 2023
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Katie Myers, Grist
Even when governments concede to environmentalists, women are often left out of negotiations.
Colombia: Repentant Ranchers Rescuing Colombian Wildlife
Jun 15, 2023
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Juan Sebastian Serrano
Two newborn pumas and a convalescing porcupine share a room in the home of the Zapata family, which has renounced livestock farming to focus on…
Afghanistan: Locusts Destroy Afghanistan Crops amid Severe Food Crisis [Photos]
Jun 15, 2023
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Al Jazeera
Hundreds of thousands of locusts have descended on crops in northern Afghanistan under the helpless gaze of farmers and their families already stalked by food…
The Kakhovka Dam Disaster: Responsibility and Consequences
Jun 14, 2023
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Andrian Prokip
In the early morning hours of June 6, an explosion destroyed the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station on the Dnipro river. Seismic data…
Ukraine/Russia: Ukraine Accused Russia of Preparing to Blow up a Chemical Plant in Crimea in a 'Man-Made Catastrophe' That Would Spread 200 Tons of Ammonia to Nearby Districts
Jun 13, 2023
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Matthew Loh, Business Insider
Ukraine's intelligence wing on Sunday accused Russia of rigging a chemical plant in Crimea to explode, saying it's observed Moscow's forces mining and evacuating the…
The Taliban’s Opium Ban: A Success or a Failure?
Jun 13, 2023
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Altaf Moti
Afghanistan is the world’s biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia. Production spiraled over the past 20 years despite…
EnPAx Announces the Eighth Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding
Jun 13, 2023
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Eighth Al-Moumin Award for Thought Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding, honoring outstanding contributions…
Promoting Women’s Leadership in “Loss and Damage” Climate Negotiations
Jun 13, 2023
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Marisa O. Ensor
Last year, women took the lead on one of COP27’s most contentious and challenging issues: climate reparations, the third pillar of international climate change governance, usually referred to…
Use of Water as a Weapon of War Likely to Increase
Jun 13, 2023
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Kerry Boyd Anderson
The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine last week highlighted the role of water in warfare. The use of water as a weapon…
President Biden’s Focus on Environmental Justice Has a Crucial Blind Spot
Jun 13, 2023
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Carly A. Krakow
On April 21, President Biden signed an executive order addressing domestic toxic pollution and climate vulnerabilities that disproportionately burden low-income communities and communities of color.…
Afghanistan: Herat Rain-Fed Cropland Harvests Decline by 80 Percent
Jun 12, 2023
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Binyamin Barez, Pajhwok Afghan News
The rain-fed crops' harvest has decreased by 80 percent in western Herat province this year owing to acute drought conditions, an official said on Monday.
Liberia: How Police Busted a Web of Korean Timber Traffickers
Jun 12, 2023
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Esau J. Far, Observer
In January the Liberia National Police (LNP) charged several men, including two Korean nationals, in connection with an illegal logging operation in Gbarpolu County. Their…
ELN Ceasefire Could Ease Environmental Degradation in Colombia
Jun 12, 2023
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
The new Colombian government is in the midst of an attempt to conclude its decades-long internal conflict, and a deal with the ELN forms a…
Conflict, Crisis, and Peacebuilding: Afghanistan and Regional Water Security
Jun 12, 2023
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Elizabeth B. Hessami
Gunfire erupted at the border of the Afghan Nimroz Province and Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan Province on May 27, 2023, amid rising tensions over water rights, killing…
Iraq: Women and Youth-Led Peace and Reconciliation (WYPRI) Manager - Mosul, Iraq
Jun 11, 2023
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Mercy Corps
About Mercy CorpsMercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, it knows its teams do their best…
Ukraine: Women’s Protection and Empowerment Caseworker
Jun 11, 2023
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International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is determined to protect the people it serves and staff from of safeguarding violations, including sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.…
Belgium: Climate and Environmental Peacemaking Analyst (Service contract)
Jun 11, 2023
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European Institute of Peace
Based in Brussels and active in over a dozen countries, the European Institute of Peace (www.eip.org) is an independent organisation working collaboratively with the parties to the…
Afghanistan: Programme Specialist, Women Peace and Security (WPS) -(Afghan national only) - Re-advertised-Those who previously applied do not need to re-apply
Jun 11, 2023
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United Nations Women
BackgroundUN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…
Central African Republic: Programme Specialist Women Peace Security and Humanitarian Action
Jun 11, 2023
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United Nations
BackgroundEstablished in July 2010 by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A / 64/289, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of…
Spain: How a 1,000-Year-Old Tribunal Averts Conflicts over Water
Jun 11, 2023
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The Times
Members of an ancient court in Valencia rule on irrigation disputes between farmers. Could they prevent water wars elsewhere in Spain?