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Call for Abstracts on Climate Migration, Conflict, and Peace (for a Special Issue of "Environment and Security")
Nov 1, 2022
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The forthcoming journal Environment and Security is seeking abstracts for proposed papers on climate migration, conflict, and peace. The selected papers will be included in…
Sudan: Darfur Peacebuilding MEAL Manager
Nov 1, 2022
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Concordis International
Concordis International is a non-profit organisation that works alongside and in support of official peace processes, where they exist, to improve the potential for lasting…
“Environment and Security” Now Accepting Journal Submissions!
Nov 1, 2022
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Be a part of the historic launch of the new journal, Environment and Security! Environment and Security will be the leading global outlet for peer-reviewed research…
Women Must Lead the Way Out Yemen’s Climate and Conflict Crises
Nov 1, 2022
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Jackie Abramian
When the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition entered Yemen in early 2015 to “restore” the government to power after the takeover by Houthi fighters in the capital…
Yemen: Women Must Lead the Way Out Yemen’s Climate and Conflict Crises
Nov 1, 2022
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Jackie Abramian, The Progressive Magazine
A new report surveys the work that women-led organizations on the ground are doing to promote peace through climate awareness.
Iraq: Senior Local Expert for Data Collection and Report Writing (Conflict Sensitivity, and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene - WASH)
Nov 1, 2022
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MovingOn Expertise
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Iraqi authorities have decided to give priority to a water and sanitation project located in the city…
Colombia: ELN Operating Massive Cattle Rustling Operation on Colombian Border
Nov 1, 2022
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Insight Crime
The ELN is involved in all manner of criminal economies along the Colombian-Venezuelan border, but its continuing role in facilitating cattle smuggling may be one…
Colombia: Colombia’s Indigenous Population Faces Scourge of Violence
Nov 1, 2022
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Inigo Alexander, Al Jazeera
In 2021, a member of Colombia’s Indigenous population was killed every four days, according to a report released last month by the National Commission of…
Colombia: Avocado Farming Is Threatening Colombia’s Natural Water Factory
Nov 1, 2022
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Emily Senkosky, Mongabay
Sonsón and other nearby municipalities in Antioquia have ideal conditions for growing avocados. At the same time, they are also neighboring some of the world’s…
Sudan: Pipeline Sabotage in Kordofan Shuts Sudan Oil Refinery
Nov 1, 2022
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Dabanga
A major section of the Khartoum Petroleum Refinery that processes Nile Blend crude oil has been shut down after sabotage to the pipeline in the…
Conflict Minerals: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to Decide on Fate of Russian Diamonds
Nov 1, 2022
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News24 Africa
The plenary meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is under way in Gaborone, Botswana, until Friday and it's expected to decide if Russian…
Greece/Turkey: Libyan Energy Pact Ramps up Risks of Turkey-Greece Conflict
Nov 1, 2022
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Nektaria Stamouli, EnergyWire
Turkey's energy deal with Tripoli this month is ratcheting up the dangers of open conflict between Ankara and Athens.On Oct. 3, Turkey signed a preliminary…
Leaving No One Behind at COP27
Oct 31, 2022
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Jenny Grönwall, Xanani Baloyi, and Georgette Mrakadeh-Keane
As COP27 fast approaches a slew of reports highlight how much work is yet to be done to meet the goal of reducing projected warming…
Integrating Gender into Environment Projects in Fragile and Conflict Settings
Oct 31, 2022
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Agathe Christien and Phoebe Spencer
There is growing recognition that natural resource exploitation and environmental pressures can fuel violent conflict. Compounding this threat, situations of conflict and environmental stress also…
Advancing the women, peace and security agenda in the Pacific
Oct 31, 2022
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Heather Wrathall and Melissa C. Tyler
On this day 22 years ago, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1325 in recognition of the fact that women experience and are affected by conflict…
South Sudan: The Promise of Oil and Gas in South Sudan
Oct 31, 2022
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Alex Irwin-Hunt and Munyaradzi Makoni, fDi Intelligence
When South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on July 9 2011, it was hoped that oil revenues would fuel the economy of the world’s youngest…
Sudan: Sudanese Refinery Resumes Full Operations after ‘Sabotage’
Oct 31, 2022
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Associated Press
An oil refinery in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum resumed operations following a brief halt due to an act of “sabotage” on one of its…
Iraq: Huge Fire Rips through Oil Refinery in Erbil, Iraq [Video]
Oct 31, 2022
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Vickie Scullard, Euro Weekly News
The blaze broke out today, Monday morning, in an oil refinery in Erbil’s Qushtapa sub-district, according to official accounts. The Erbil Civil Defence posted a…
Egypt: Egypt's Farmers Fear Rising Social Tensions over Scarce Water
Oct 31, 2022
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Menna Farouk, Reuters
For three decades, brothers Ramadan and Mamdouh Othman have grown summer crops of maize, olives and cucumbers on their Nile Delta land in Egypt's northern…
Ukraine: No Water for Much of Kyiv amid Heavy Russian Barrage on Ukraine
Oct 31, 2022
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PA News Agency
A massive barrage of Russian cruise missile and drone strikes hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities early on Monday, knocking out…
Africa Investment Forum: Green Jobs Can Help Shift the Climate of Gender Equality for African Women
Oct 31, 2022
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ADBG
The Africa Investment Forum has a strong track record of supporting the success of women business owners and entrepreneurs. Less well-known is that the Africa Investment…
Colombia: Colombian Govt. Hands over Farm Belonging to Former Paramilitary Leader
Oct 30, 2022
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teleSUR
The Colombian Government has handed over to fifty peasant families, victims of the armed conflict, the Támesis farm, which had been occupied by Carlos Castaño,…
Iraq: Twilight of The Tigris: Iraq's Mighty River Drying up
Oct 30, 2022
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Aymen Henna, Agence France-Presse
It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. But today the…
Iraq: For Water-Stressed Iraq, Wells Threaten Race to the Bottom
Oct 30, 2022
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Agence France-Presse
Iraq has long drilled the desert for oil, but now climate stress, drought and reduced river flows are forcing it to dig ever deeper for…
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Suspends Participation in Deal on Ukraine Grain Exports – as It Happened
Oct 29, 2022
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Joanna Walters, Nadeem Badshah, Sarah Haque, and Geneva Abdul, Guardian
The Russian government has written to the United Nations telling the international body that “starting today” it is suspending for an “indefinite term” the Black…
Liberia: Swiss Firm Says FDA Lied in Defending Illegal Permits
Oct 29, 2022
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Emmanuel Sherman, The Daylight
The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) lied that its Swiss contractor had declined to register logs from a plantation in Nimba County, which led it to…
Colombia: Colombians Are Occupying Land to Protest Inequality. Here’s the History.
Oct 28, 2022
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Laura García-Montoya and Isabel Güiza-Gómez, Washington Post
In Colombia, Indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant groups have escalated land occupations in recent months, seeking to ensure the government carries out long-standing land redistribution promises.…
Ghana: First Fully Traceable Mineral Extracted in Ghana
Oct 28, 2022
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Mining Review Africa
For the first time in Ghana’s mining history, Minexx, in collaboration with Solidaridad, a civil society organisation, has successfully exported 11.62 grams of gold fully…
East Africa: Droughts Don't Need to Result in Famine - Ethiopia and Somalia Show What Makes the Difference
Oct 27, 2022
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Joshua Busby
The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 40 years. Scientists suspect that a multi-year La Niña cycle has been amplified by climate change to prolong dry…
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Accused of Sabotaging Ukraine Water Pipe to Mykolaiv
Oct 26, 2022
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Viktoriia Zhuhan and Nader Ibrahim, BBC News
For six months, homes in Ukraine's southern coastal city of Mykolaiv have been without clean drinking water. Military and UN experts have told a BBC…