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Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone to Draft Overarching Chemical Law by 2023

Aug 1, 2019 | Chemical Watch

Sierra Leone is drafting an overarching regulatory framework on chemicals by 2023, as part of a plan of regulatory, capacity building and awareness-raising actions that…

South Sudan: South Sudan to Improve Legal Framework in Oil and Gas Sector

Aug 1, 2019 | Mandisa Nduli, Africa Oil & Power

The African Development Bank, through its African Legal Support Facility and the National Petroleum and Gas Commission (NPGC) of South Sudan, has selected Centurion Law…

Myanmar: Four People, Including Official, Arrested in Deadly Land Dispute

Aug 1, 2019 | Sit Htet Aung, Myanmar Times

Four people, including a village administrator, have been arrested for casualties resulting from a dispute over fertile land in Yenangyaung township of Magwe Region. The conflict…

DRC: US Agency Provides $3.7 Million to Combat Illegal Mining in DRC

Jul 31, 2019 | Ajifowoke Michael Gbenga, Ventures

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided $3.7 million to support the fight against illegal mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

Finland: Advance of Climate Change a Threat to Security in Finland, Says Expert

Jul 31, 2019 | Helsinki Times

Jarno Limnéll, a professor of cybersecurity at Aalto University, has reminded that climate issues and their direct and indirect ramifications for security should not be…

Nile River Water Supply Forecasts May Reduce the Chance of Conflict

Jul 31, 2019 | Annalise Blum

Rising tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have led to speculation that there could be a war…

Gender and Justice Intern

Jul 30, 2019 | UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau

Guinea Bissau is a country which is experiencing instability and fragility in many areas and the State is unable to provide the goods and services…

Kenya: Terms of Reference: Endline Evaluation for UKAid Match Project in Kitui, Tharaka-Nithi and Embu Counties

Jul 30, 2019 | Trócaire

Trócaire is an Irish development agency that was established in 1973 by the Catholic Bishops of Ireland. Trócaire works in over 20 countries in partnership…

Brazil: Brazil Faith, Peace and Climate Organizer

Jul 30, 2019 | 350.org

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the…

Elections for the EnPAx Board of Directors: Call for Nominations

Jul 30, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) will be holding its inaugural elections for its Board of Directors later this year and is seeking interested candidates to…

Panama: Intern - Disasters and Conflicts Programme

Jul 30, 2019 | UN Environment

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

Mainstreaming Gender in India's Climate-Smart Agriculture Policy

Jul 30, 2019 | Mikhila Menon

India needs to adopt a climate-smart agriculture policy that includes a ‘gender lens’. Since most Indian agriculture is rain-fed, the intensifying effects of climate change…

Rangers—Unsung Heroes of Wildlife Conservation

Jul 30, 2019 | UN Environment

World Ranger Day, an initiative of the International Ranger Federation, is marked on 31 July to celebrate the work rangers do to protect the planet’s natural…

Afghanistan: Illegal Mining Reduces Lapis Lazuli Prices in Afghanistan: Study

Jul 30, 2019 | Tamim Hamid, TOLOnews

An investigation by TOLOnews reveals that lapis lazuli prices have reduced unprecedently times due to illegal mining in one of the main deposits of the…

Geoff Dabelko

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Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service, Ohio University
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Jul 30, 2019

Geoff Dabelko is Professor and Associate Dean at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. Focusing on the intersection between research…

Lost in Translation: How Building "Strong" Institutions Can Diminish Human Security in the Global South

Jul 29, 2019 | McKenzie F. Johnson

In the Global South, natural resource conflict has largely been considered a consequence of poor governance and weak political institutions. The international community’s solution? Build “green”…

Crude Holding Pools Set Ablaze in Colombia

Jul 29, 2019 | Xinhua

Four pools containing a total of 2,600 barrels of crude were set on fire in eastern Colombia's Arauca department by unknown perpetrators, oil company Ecopetrol…

Myanmar: War and Business: Kachin’s ‘Frontline’ Hydropower Dam

Jul 29, 2019 | Ye Mon and Thomas Kean, Frontier

Despite Myanmar’s dire need for power, a US$250 million hydropower plant on the front lines of the Kachin conflict has been largely idle since the…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Could Baghdad and Erbil End Iraq's Protacted Oil Dispute?

Jul 28, 2019 | Agence France-Presse

Iraq's federal authorities and the cash-strapped Kurdish regional government (KRG) have relaunched talks over longstanding oil and budget disputes, but observers are sceptical they will…

Iraq: Iraq's Oil and Gas Industry Aims to Be Energy Independent [Video]

Jul 28, 2019 | Osama Bin Javaid, Al Jazeera

Years of war and instability have damaged Iraq's gas and oil infrastructure, leaving it dependent on energy imports, despite having huge reserves. Now it wants…

The Sahel Uncertainty: Climate Change and Insurgency

Jul 28, 2019 | Paolo Zucconi

The Sahel is increasingly affected by underdevelopment, endemic poverty, criminality, and insurgency. Climate change has recently extrapolated these problems by making essential resources scarce. This…

Myanmar: Police Investigate after 38 Feared Dead Following Violent Myanmar Land Dispute

Jul 27, 2019 | Mizzima

At least 25 people died following violence this week, a shocked regional MP said Friday at a press conference in Magway, as details were still…

Myanmar: At Least 25 Dead after Myanmar Land Dispute

Jul 27, 2019 | Dhaka Tribune

At least 25 people died when a land dispute in Myanmar turned violent this week, a regional MP said Friday, as details were still emerging…

South Sudan: South Sudan Tries to Protect Wildlife after Long Conflict

Jul 27, 2019 | Sam Mednick, Associated Press

South Sudan is trying to rebuild its six national parks and 13 game reserves, which cover more than 13% of the country’s terrain, following the…

Sound Environmental Governance Key to Maximizing Potential of Horn of Africa Detente

Jul 26, 2019 | Inger Andersen

The Horn of Africa today faces increased threats to its people’s security in the form of natural disasters linked to climate change. But as old…

Afghanistan: Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Launches Campaign to Stop Illegal Extraction of Mineral Resources

Jul 26, 2019 | Library of Congress

On June 19, 2019, Afghanistan’s Acting Minister of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MOMP), Narges Nehan, announced that the Ministry had begun a country-wide…

Nigeria: Insecurity: Nigeria Loses $14bn Annually to Farmers-Herders’ Clashes – Fayemi

Jul 26, 2019 | Rotimi Ojomoyela, Vanguard

Governer Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, yesterday, lamented that Nigeria loses $14 billion annually to farmer-herder clashes, saying it may affect the country’s ability to…

China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Orders ‘Immediate Withdrawal’ of Chinese Ships as Tensions Soar

Jul 26, 2019 | Luke Hawker, Express

Hanoi has pressed ahead its work on an oil rig on the Vanguard bank, despite an increased military presence by Beijing in the Taiwan strait.…

East African Policy Makers Advocate for Gender in Climate Policy

Jul 26, 2019 | Mary Nyasimi, Dana Elhassan and Faith Gikunda

Policy makers from nine East African countries pledge to lobby governments and policy influencers to consider gender mainstreaming in national climate change policies.

Liberia: WOMSUD Launches Women’s Participation in Country’s Natural Resources

Jul 25, 2019 | Hannah N. Geterminah, Observer

Women Movement for Sustainable Development (WOMUD) on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, launched the Women’s Participation in the Natural Resources Sectors Report under the title, “Strengthening…