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Myanmar: Govt Vows Action after Myanmar Villagers Demand Fertilizer Factory’s Closure over Pollution

Jan 26, 2021 | Zaw Zaw Htwe, Irrawaddy

The chief minister of Yangon Region on Tuesday promised villagers that he would assign two ministers to inspect a fertilizer factory whose closure has been…


EnPAx Icon Historic Special Issue on Environmental Peacebuilding Now Available (Open Access)

Jan 26, 2021 | International Affairs and Environmental Peacebuilding Association

International Affairs just published the first-ever special issue dedicated solely to environmental peacebuilding. After an introduction by some of the most prominent scholars in the…


EnPAx Icon Registration Open for the Conference on “Environmental Governance for Peace in Colombia”

Jan 26, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

On March 18, 2021, the Conference on “Environmental Governance for Peace in Colombia” will bring together diverse perspectives to share experiences and learning on environmental…


Analyzing the Climate Security Threat: Key Actions for the US Intelligence Community

Jan 26, 2021 | Erin Sikorsky

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser has called climate change an urgent national security priority. Yet, as the person who recently led climate analysis across the…


The Third Wave of Environmental Peacebuilding

Jan 26, 2021 | Richard Matthew and Tobias Ide

For most of 2020, news, politics, policy, and research in the United States and abroad were dominated by the challenges posed by COVID-19, a rapidly…


Gender, Climate Change, and Security: Making the Connections

Jan 25, 2021 | Chantal de Jonge Oudraat & Michael E. Brown

Gender issues, climate change, and security problems are interconnected in complex and powerful ways. Unfortunately, some of these connections have not received enough attention from…


Ethiopia: Programme Management Officer, Climate Security Mechanism

Jan 25, 2021 | UNEP

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental…


Negotiating Peace in Iraq’s Disputed Territories: Modifying the Sinjar Agreement

Jan 24, 2021 | Shamiran Mako

On Oct. 9, the federal government in Baghdad signed the Agreement on the Restoration of Stability and Normalization of the Situation in the District of…


How We Misunderstand the Magnitude of Climate Risks – and Why That Contributes to Controversy

Jan 24, 2021 | Peter Schwartzstein

The Syrian civil war has raged for almost a decade now, and in the climate security community it can feel as if we’ve spent at…


Good Reads: Rare Earths and Conflict Across Scale

Jan 24, 2021 | Stacy D. VanDeveer

Rare earths metals made a lot of news over the last decade, after most of us spent years forgetting what we once learned their names on…


Report Finds that Russia Securitises the Environment – but on Its Terms

Jan 24, 2021 | Nina Lesikhina and Doug Weir

International attention on environmental security has increased markedly during the last decade, especially within the UN’s Security Council, General Assembly and its Environment Assembly. Yet…


Kenya: Programme Management Officer, Climate Security Mechanism

Jan 23, 2021 | UNEP

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental…


Afghanistan: Assistant FAO Representative

Jan 23, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The main aim of the FAO country offices, which are headed by an FAO Representative, is to assist governments to develop policies, programmes and projects…


Iraq: International Farmer Field School Expert

Jan 23, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

FAO is well-known for its Farmer Field School (FFS) extension approach as an effective capacity building approach for farmers that can be well adapted to…


Chad: Project Coordinator

Jan 23, 2021 | International Union for the Conservation of Nature

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a union of Members made up of governments and civil society organizations. It provides public, private…


Bangladesh/Myanmar: Bangladesh to Buy Myanmar Rice, Putting aside Rohingya Crisis

Jan 23, 2021 | Ruma Paul, Reuters

Bangladesh will buy 100,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar, putting aside a rift over the Rohingya refugee crisis as the government races to overcome a…


Myanmar: Forest Programme Manager

Jan 23, 2021 | World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the…


Myanmar Officer

Jan 23, 2021 | Natural Resource Governance Institute

For the one billion people living in poverty in resource-rich countries, the oil, gas and mining sectors have failed to deliver on the promise of…


DRC: Senior Program Officer

Jan 23, 2021 | Natural Resource Governance Institute

The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is a non-profit policy institute and grant-making organization that promotes the responsible management of oil, gas and mineral resources…


Israel: Education Officer

Jan 23, 2021 | EcoPeace Middle East

EcoPeace Middle East is a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists. Our primary objective is to promote cooperative efforts to protect…


Central Asia: World Bank : Promoting Women's Participation in Water Resource Management in Central Asia

Jan 22, 2021 | World Bank Group

Although water resources have the potential to drive economic development in Central Asia, ineffective resource management often stands in the way. The good news is…


Liberia: ACDI/VOCA FIFES Activity to Assist Local Stakeholders Protect Liberian Rainforests Ends, but Critical Activities Continue

Jan 22, 2021 | Glenn Lines, ACDI/VOCA

Liberia holds the last large blocks of rainforests remaining in West Africa. Despite being home to two-thirds of those remaining blocks, Liberia and its communities…


South Sudan: South Sudan Invites Companies to Bid for Environmental Audit

Jan 22, 2021 | Charné Hundermark, Africa Oil & Power

South Sudan’s Ministry of Petroleum has invited a shortlist of companies to bid for the environmental audit of the country’s oil fields. The audit will…


Environmental Affairs Officer

Jan 21, 2021 | UN Global Service Centre

The United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC) provides critical Supply Chain, Geospatial, Information and Telecommunications Technologies services and Training to all peacekeeping and special political…


Kenya: Women in Asal Areas to Benefit From Sh500 Million UN Empowerment Project

Jan 21, 2021 |  Njoki Kihiu, AllAfrica

Nairobi — Kenyan Women in Kitui, West Pokot, and Laikipia Counties are set to benefit from an Sh500 million project which seeks to economically empower…


Middle East: Planting Hope, Growing Peace: Models for Sustainable Peacebuilding in the MENA

Jan 21, 2021 | Adina Friedman, Morocco World News

The year 2020 has highlighted – and exacerbated – extreme disparities across and within countries and the environmental degradation we humans have caused the planet.…


Conflict Minerals: New Day for the US Conflict Minerals Rule

Jan 21, 2021 | National Law Review

It is expected that the Biden Administration’s SEC will renew focus on the US conflict minerals rule and other responsible sourcing measures.  The SEC could…


Liberia: Illegal Sierra Leonean Miners Dying in Liberia

Jan 21, 2021 | Mae Azango, FrontPage Africa

Many Sierra Leonean illegal miners are dying in mining communities in Gbarpolu, without the knowledge of their families back in Sierra Leone, locals say. It…


South Sudan: Old Grudges and Empty Coffers: South Sudan’s Precarious Peace Process

Jan 21, 2021 | Sam Mednick, New Humanitarian

On the streets of South Sudan’s capital city, billboards honour the country’s politicians for ending five years of conflict that cost almost 400,000 lives and…


Ensuring Women’s Participation in Land Governance: “Bringing the Law Home” in Tanzania

Jan 20, 2021 | Isabella Nchimbi

Despite Tanzania’s progressive legal framework on land rights and governance, many women are often left out of community decision-making due to social and cultural norms…