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Doctoral Student: Water Conflict, Cooperation, and Diplomacy (two positions)
Nov 1, 2020
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IHE Delft, Institute for Water Education
IHE Delft is the largest international graduate water education facility in the world and is based in Delft, the Netherlands. The mission of IHE Delft…
Nigeria: WASH Officer
Nov 1, 2020
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Danish Refugee Council
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced…
Nigeria: WASH Assistant (two positions)
Nov 1, 2020
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Danish Refugee Council
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced…
Yemen: WASH Team Leader
Nov 1, 2020
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Oxfam
Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon…
Somalia: Multi-Programme Baseline Study Process
Nov 1, 2020
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Norwegian Church Aid
Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is a diaconal organization established in Norway to work with people around the world to eradicate poverty and injustice. Our vision…
Afghanistan: Making Waves: Kabul Launches Novel Plan to Address Water Crisis
Nov 1, 2020
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Sayed Salahuddin, Arab News
Afghanistan’s government has started building nearly 2 million trenches and 25 small dams to address a water crisis in the capital city of Kabul, caused…
Sudan/South Sudan: Oil Crisis and Recession Bring Two African Rivals Closer Together
Nov 1, 2020
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Viktor Katona, OilPrice.com
Times of recession usually bring up overused terms like belt-tightening or company restructuring though distressed periods are just as useful for settling old scores and…
Afghanistan: Making Waves: Kabul Launches Novel Plan to Address Water Crisis
Nov 1, 2020
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Sayed Salahuddin, Arab News
Afghanistan’s government has started building nearly 2 million trenches and 25 small dams to address a water crisis in the capital city of Kabul, caused…
Myanmar: WASH Program Manager Consortium
Nov 1, 2020
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Solidarités International
Solidarités International is a non-profit organization working in areas of conflict and natural disasters. Its main aim is to provide quick and effective support for…
DRC: A History of Pillage, Destination Unknown
Oct 30, 2020
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Africa Report
Congo's history is a long litany of theft and conflict. From the slave trade, to the brutal Belgian colonisation, to the Cold War manipulation and…
Kenyan: The Fight for Laikipia’s Key Rivers: Why Locals Are Fighting for Rivers in Laikipia
Oct 30, 2020
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Jacinta Mutura, Standard
River Mutara is a lifeline for more than 30,000 households, livestock and wildlife in Laikipia County. But in the past five years, it has been…
Colombia: Women the ‘Driving Force’ for Peacebuilding in Colombia: Deputy UN Chief
Oct 30, 2020
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UN News
The Deputy Secretary-General held a meeting, via videoconference, with President Iván Duque where they discussed the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the country, protecting the…
Colombia: Years after Defeating a Giant Gold Mine, Activists in Colombia Still Fear for Their Lives
Oct 29, 2020
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Juan Zuleta Valencia, Mongabay
Residents of the municipality of Cajamarca in eastern Colombia said “no” to what would have been the second-largest open-pit gold mine in the world. Now…
Climate Change Is a Security Issue: An Interview with Geoff Dabelko
Oct 29, 2020
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Cindy Zhou
“Climate change fundamentally impacts the political economic stability of a country,” said Dabelko. In the case of the Syrian Civil War, many experts point out…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Achieves Transparency Despite Barriers
Oct 29, 2020
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Afghanistan Times
Following its second Validation, Afghanistan has made meaningful progress in implementing the EITI Standard . The country has improved its transparency of licenses and contracts,…
Colombia: Embracing Organic in Colombia
Oct 29, 2020
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Tom Joyce, Fruitnet.com
Eosta's first shipment of limes from Colombian exporter Persian arrived last week with a surprise attached: almost 100 postcards from farmworkers in the valley of…
UN: 20 Years After Landmark UN Resolution, Women Still Excluded in Peace Processes
Oct 29, 2020
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Margaret Besheer, Voice of America
NEW YORK - Twenty years after a landmark U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to include more women in the prevention and settlement of conflicts, the…
Speakers Call for Expedited Action to Empower, Protect Women in Conflict Zones, as Security Council Marks 20 Years since Adoption of Landmark Resolution
Oct 29, 2020
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UN Security Council
Despite Notable Progress, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Still Rampant, Women’s Leadership in Peace Processes Sorely Lagging, Secretary-General Warns. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the head of the…
Liberia: First Rural Women Land Rights Conference Ends in Gbarnga
Oct 29, 2020
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Selma Lomax, Front Page Africa
Gbarnga, Bong County – Advocacy for women land ownership rights and call to empower women in Liberia were some of the topics that dominated a three-day…
Call for Students: Master of Science in Security and Resilience Studies at Northeastern University
Oct 27, 2020
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Northeastern University
The Master of Science in Security and Resilience Studies at Northeastern University offers students the opportunity to gain skills to deal with resiliency challenges in both…
Call for Papers: Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass Violence
Oct 27, 2020
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International Association of Genocide Scholars
The International Association of Genocide Scholars invites manuscripts on the intersections of the environment and collective violence for a special issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention,…
Call for Papers: Water Security and Climate Change Conference
Oct 27, 2020
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Centers for Natural Resources and Development and Sustainable Water Management in Developing Countries Network
The Water Security and Climate Change conference (WSCC) is an annual event where scientists, policy makers and stakeholders from various sectors discuss the diverse facets…
How to Build a More Equal World
Oct 26, 2020
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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Just as the World Health Organization identified COVID-19 as a pandemic, UN Women launched our analysis of the global status of women’s rights, showing limited…
Myanmar: Myanmar Land Rights Activism in New Animation from PRIO [Video]
Oct 26, 2020
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Peace Research Institute Oslo
What drives the small but often heroic everyday acts of people in their attempts to challenge dehumanization and abuse in violent conflict? In this story,…
Kenya: In Northern Kenya, the Climate Crisis Shifts Gender Roles
Oct 26, 2020
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Lauren Evans, Foreign Policy
OLDONYIRO, Kenya—On a Tuesday morning at the Oldonyiro livestock market in November, Samaria Leyagu was doing what just a few years ago would have been…
Mining Forum Reviews Impacts of COVID-19 on Climate Action, Gender Equality
Oct 26, 2020
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
The 16th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) convened online to discuss issues related to…
Kenya: In Northern Kenya, the Climate Crisis Shifts Gender Roles
Oct 26, 2020
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Lauren Evans
Drought has disrupted the traditional way of life for pastoralists, pushing many women into business for the first time.
OLDONYIRO, Kenya—On a Tuesday morning at the…
Key Player in War on Climate Change? The Pentagon
Oct 26, 2020
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Michèle A. Flournoy
To its credit, the DoD has already been investing over $1.5 billion of its annual research and development budget in new energy technologies. In the past,…
Iraq/Kurdistan: As Oil Dives, Kurds Return to Sidelined Farms
Oct 25, 2020
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Qassim Khider, Agence France-Presse
Iraq’s Kurdish region has for decades lived off its oil wealth, but plummeting energy prices amid the COVID-19 pandemic and financial mismanagement are forcing locals…
Climate Change: Climate Wars: The New Cold War [Audio]
Oct 25, 2020
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BBC
Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at more than twice the global average, and as the ice pack melts, battle lines are being drawn between…