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India: Human Lives Lost to Wildlife-Human Conflict Should Be Compensated Better: Scientists

Feb 26, 2021 | Press Trust of India

The lives of people lost due to wildlife-human conflicts are not adequately compensated in India, according to a new study which says changing the approach…

South Sudan: Influential South Sudan Chiefs Warn of Conflict over Land Grabs

Feb 26, 2021 | Winnie Cirino, Voice of America

Ten traditional chiefs from South Sudan’s Central Equatoria state have demanded the state government stop a campaign of illegal land grabs and are threatening the…

Iraq: Decades after the Gulf War, Iraq’s Youth View Oil as a Curse

Feb 26, 2021 | Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera

Like most of the young people who joined Iraq’s countrywide demonstrations in 2019, musician Sally Mars took to the streets to demand that the government…

2021: A New Year Marked by New Rules against Conflict Minerals in the EU

Feb 25, 2021 | Agathe Smyth

While the news did not make the headlines, 1 January 2021 marked the culmination of a long civil society campaign as new European legislation on…

Yemen: Houthis Again Delay UN Examination of Loaded Oil Tanker

Feb 25, 2021 | Environment & Energy News

The United Nations said yesterday that new requests by Yemen's Houthi rebels will further delay U.N. experts from examining an oil tanker moored off the…

Liberia: Wildlife and Conservation Reporters Network Aided in the Confiscation of Protected Animal

Feb 25, 2021 | FrontPage Africa

The Confiscation Unit of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) with the aid of the Wildlife and Conservation Reporters Network have arrested a man for selling…

South Sudan: South Sudan Integrates Environmental Protection with Hydrocarbon Exploration

Feb 24, 2021 | Charné Hundermark, Africa Oil & Power

Despite holding the third-largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa – estimated at 3.5 billion barrels – only 30% of South Sudan has been explored to…

DRC: First Minerals Exported from DRC with Blockchain

Feb 24, 2021 | MINING.com

Minexx has exported minerals with full financial transparency from the Democratic Republic of Congo, by processing $250k of blockchain certified payments – a first for…

The EU Military Sector’s Carbon Footprint

Feb 23, 2021 | Stuart Parkinson and Linsey Cottrell

Militaries are frequently exempt from publicly reporting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and there is currently no consolidated public reporting of GHG emissions for the…

Climate Change: France's Macron Proposes Appointment of UN Climate Security Envoy

Feb 23, 2021 | Reuters

The United Nations Security Council should consider appointing a special envoy for climate security to coordinate the council’s efforts in this area, French President Emmanuel…

Ousseyni Kalilou

Co-chair of Forest Interest Group
Environmental Peacebuilding Association
United States
Feb 23, 2021

Ousseyni Kalilou is an environmental peacebuilding practitioner based in North Carolina. His work focuses on the opportunities for environmental peacebuilding in forested regions, specifically looking…

Myanmar: Military Coup, Economic Sanctions Hike Threats to Myanmar's Forests

Feb 22, 2021 | Michael Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Myanmar’s military coup and a potential ramp up in trade boycotts by foreign governments and business could fuel the risk of deforestation in the Asian…

Afghanistan: 4 Died during Unlawful Mining for Gold

Feb 22, 2021 | Middle East North Africa Financial Network

Officials saw on Monday, February 22, that land sliding alleged the lives of as a minimum four Afghan gold miners who were working on removing…

Saudi-Led Attacks Devastated Yemen’s Civilian Infrastructure, Dramatically Worsening the Humanitarian Crisis

Feb 22, 2021 | Jeannie Sowers and Erika Weinthal

In early February, the Biden administration announced several shifts in U.S. policy toward the war in Yemen — a conflict that has left 20 million…

Why United Nations Peace Operations Cannot Ignore Climate Change

Feb 22, 2021 | Florian Krampe

On 23 February the United Nations (UN) Security Council will hold an open session on the topic of climate change and security. The security implications…

As Biden Seeks Answers on Climate’s Impact on Migration, Sydney Declaration Provides Legal Ground Rules for Action

Feb 22, 2021 | Jane McAdam

In an executive order earlier this month, President Joe Biden ordered a report into “climate change and its impact on migration, including forced migration, internal displacement, and…

Registration Open for Forests & Peace Social Hour

Feb 22, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

On Tuesday, March 2, from 9:30 - 11:00 EST, the Forest Interest Group, Africa Interest Group, and the Young Professionals Interest Group of the Environmental…

Iraq: Iraq Seeks International Investors to Build 750 MW Solar Projects

Feb 21, 2021 | Reuters

Iraq is seeking international investors to build seven solar power plants, with a total capacity of 750 megawatts (MW) as it aims to develop its…

DRC Is Rich with Farmland, So Why Do 22 Million People There Face Starvation?

Feb 21, 2021 | Vava Tampa

I was food shopping when I read the news. Nearly 22 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing starvation and malnutrition. Now. In…

Intern, Computational Social Science, Global Restoration Initiative, University of Chicago

Feb 20, 2021 | World Resources Institute

World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, nonprofit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human…

Environmental Security Internship

Feb 20, 2021 | Stimson Center

For three decades, the Stimson Center has pioneered practical new steps toward stability and security in an uncertain world. Today, as changes in power and…

Myanmar: Resilient Asian Deltas Initiative Lead, Asia Pacific

Feb 20, 2021 | World Wildlife Fund for Nature

WWF’s strategy harnesses the strengths of the WWF network in a shared vision, focusing on six major goals - water, wildlife, the ocean, climate and…

Syria: Food Security and Livelihood Program Manager

Feb 20, 2021 | Cooperazione Internazionale

Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an Italian humanitarian non-governmental organization founded in Milan in 1965. COOPI aims to help the world’s poorest to improve their access…

Somalia: National Project Manager

Feb 20, 2021 | UNDP

Somalia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change stemming from its social, economic, and political conditions, as well as…

Niger: Advisor, Livelihoods

Feb 20, 2021 | Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in…

Researcher, Climate Change and Risk Programme

Feb 20, 2021 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is seeking a talented social science Researcher in the study area of Climate Change and Risk (CCR). The…

Senior Researcher, Climate Change and Risk Programme

Feb 20, 2021 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is seeking a talented social science Senior Researcher in the study area of Climate Change and Risk (CCR).

The…

Experts Spotlight Bottom-Up Approaches and the Impacts of Conflict on Infrastructure in the Next Wave of Environmental Peacebuilding

Feb 20, 2021 | Ratia Tekenet

“For 30 years, a community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have been working to untangle the complex relationships between environmental change and human and national…

South Sudan: Area Coordinator

Feb 20, 2021 | Concern Worldwide

Yemen: WASH and Infrastructures Technical Coordinator

Feb 20, 2021 | ACTED

Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity,…