Events

Webinar Series for SEC Conflict Minerals Disclosure Filers

Mar 22, 2016 - Apr 12, 2016 | Green Status Pro, Responsible Trade and Elm Sustainability Partners LLC
Webcast

Green Status Pro, Responsible Trade and Elm Sustainability Partners LLC, conflict minerals reporting industry experts, have announced that they will lead a limited number of…

Roundtable on “Defining Environmental Peacebuilding”

Mar 16, 2016 | International Studies Association
Atlanta, GA

For many years, researchers, practitioners, and decision makers have been working at the intersection of peacebuilding, natural resources and the environment.  Over this time, our…

Land and Poverty Conference 2016: Scaling up Responsible Land Governance

Mar 16, 2016 - Mar 18, 2016 | World Bank
Washington, DC

Now in its 17th year, the annual World Bank conference on land and poverty brings together key stakeholders from governments, civil society, academia, the development…

[Rescheduled] Tech Tools for Environmental Peacebuilding

Mar 8, 2016 | Conservation International
Arlington, VA

Please join Conservation International’s Policy Center for Environment and Peace for a half-day panel event, the third in a series focused on tools that foster…

Columbia University Environment, Peace, and Security Certification- Information Session

Mar 3, 2016 - Mar 4, 2016 | Columbia University
Online

Speak with EPS faculty one final time before the first application deadline on 15 March 2016.  These two online information sessions will discuss the course content…

Fragility, Conflict and Violence Forum 2016

Mar 1, 2016 - Mar 3, 2016 | World Bank Group
Washington, DC

The challenge of fragility, conflict and violence has become increasingly complex, spread across a wide range of countries, regions and urban centers. The recent spike…

World Bank Group Fragility, Conflict and Violence Forum 2016

Mar 1, 2016 - Mar 3, 2016 | World Bank Group
Washington, DC

By convening a broad spectrum of partners from governments, aid agencies, civil society, private sector, and research institutions among others, the 3-day Forum aims to…

Course: Competing Claims on Natural Resources

Feb 29, 2016 - Mar 11, 2016 | Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation
Netherlands

Competition over land and natural resources is increasingly overstretching the multi-functionality of landscapes, whether it is at local or at global level. With the ambition…

Data Diplomacy in South Asia: Water, Natural Hazards, and Regionalism

Feb 24, 2016 | Atlantic Council
Washington, DC

The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center invites you to a conversation with Saleem Ali, University of Queensland’s Chair in Sustainable Resource Development, entitled “Data Diplomacy…

Special Institute on Human Rights Law and the Extractive Industries

Feb 18, 2016 - Feb 19, 2016 | Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
Panama City, Panama

Join the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation in Panama for the Special Institute on Human Rights Law and the Extractive Industries. Human rights, and the requirements…

Columbia University Environment, Peace, and Security Certification- Information Session

Feb 8, 2016 | Columbia University
New York City

Please join EPS faculty Marc Levy, Beth Fisher-Yoshida and Josh Fisher to discuss the certificate curriculum and how you can be part of this innovative program designed…

Conflict Minerals Compliance and Supplier Sustainability Conference

Feb 4, 2016 - Feb 5, 2016 | TBM Evolution Group
Amsterdam, Netherlands

This TBM evolution event will enable participants to focus on real implementation and practical applications of Conflict Minerals Complaince and supplier engagement challenges. For inquiries,…

Meeting on Environmental Impacts of Syria Conflict

Jan 25, 2016 | Emergency Preparedness and Environment Section (Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit)
Geneva, Switzerland

The Joint United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/OCHA Environment Unit (JEU), housed within OCHA’s Emergency Services Branch, helps Member States to prepare for and respond to…

Rating Companies on Responsible Sourcing Sprint

Jan 18, 2016 | Amnesty International and WikiRate
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Amnesty International, Global Witness, and WikiRate are gathering a community of students to help us answer our questions on responsible sourcing. On 18 January 2016,…

East-West Arctic Cooperation During Times of Global Tension

Jan 15, 2016 | The Stimson Center
Washington DC

Can the United States and its allies cooperate with Russia, China and other Asian nations during times of tense relations — or will cooperation on…

Climate Change, Disasters, and Security: Unconventional Approaches to Building Stability

Jan 14, 2016 | Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Environmental Change and Security Program
Washington, D.C.

Natural disasters are expected to increase in both number and severity as a result of climate change. Many places lack the resources and institutional capacity…

Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding

Jan 8, 2016 - Jan 17, 2016 | Outward Bound Peacebuilding
Piedras Blancas, Costa Rica

One of the most critical findings of the 2010 Report of The United States Institute of Peace on the topic of graduate education in peace…

Environment, Peace, and Security Certification - Information Session

Jan 6, 2016 | Columbia University
Online

Evidence is accumulating that linkages between environment and security dynamics are more important than previously thought. Governments, the public, corporations, and other organizations around the…

International Legal Dialogue-Middle East North Africa

Dec 14, 2015 - Dec 15, 2015 | The American Society of International Law, Columbia Law School, and Columbia Global Centers | Amman
Amman, Jordan

Columbia Law School and the American Society of International Law will hold a conference on the theme “International Legal Dialogue—Middle East North Africa” in Amman,…

Climate Security and Migration

Dec 11, 2015 | Center for New American Security
Washington, DC

This event will explore questions of how the United States, in collaboration with foreign partners, multilateral institutions, and civil society, should tackle future climate migration.…

Department of Defense Action on Climate Change: Insights from the Pentagon and a Two Year National Tour

Dec 11, 2015 | American Security Project
Washington, DC

One year ago, the Department of Defense released its landmark Climate Adaptation Roadmap, which outlined the steps that all areas of the DoD must take…

Climate Security and Resilience – The Way Forward

Dec 11, 2015 | adelphi, Auswärtiges Amt
Paris, France

Building on the recommendations of the study “A New Climate for Peace”, the G7 Foreign Ministers agreed in April that risks of instability and conflict…

Conference on Water Security 2015

Dec 9, 2015 - Dec 11, 2015 | REACH Program, University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Water security has rapidly emerged as a defining global and local challenge to promote economic growth, human development and resource sustainability. Achieving and maintaining water security…

"Water and Peace in the Middle East": A Discussion with EcoPeace Middle East

Dec 9, 2015 | Environmental Peacebuilding Working Group
Washington, DC

The Environmental Peacebuilding Working Group cordially invites you to a discussion with EcoPeace Middle East Co-Directors, Nader Khateeb (Palestine), Munqeth Mehyar (Jordan) and Gidon Bromberg…

The Future of Goal 16: Peace and Inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals

Dec 8, 2015 | Search for Common Ground: Conflict Prevention & Resolution Forum
Washington, DC United States

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) make a clear link between conflict and development, thanks to the powerful language about peace in the preamble to the…

Global Supply Chain Summit USA

Dec 7, 2015 - Sep 8, 2015 | Chemical Watch
Washington, DC

This annual two-day Summit focuses on the management of safe and sustainable chemicals in the Supply Chain. The program includes the latest thinking on Alternatives…

Climate Change and the Geopolitics of Water and Energy Challenges and Opportunties in the Levant

Dec 3, 2015 | EcoPeace Middle East
Tel Aviv, Israel

EcoPeace Middle East, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), cordially invite you to a conference on “Climate Change and the…

The Secure and the Dispossessed: Challenging the Militarisation of Climate Change

Dec 1, 2015 | Transnational Institute (TNI)

The panel of Dutch and international experts on climate change and security issues will expose the dangers of a new climate security agenda in which…

Climate Change, Security & Defence Conference

Nov 24, 2015 | The Conference Board of Canada
Ottawa, Canada

Climate change is projected to have significant impacts on global stability, potentially increasing the risk of conflict in a number of regions—from the Arctic to…

A Tale of Two Insecurities: Why the Paris COP Has So Little to Do with Climate Change Impacts on Human Security and What We Can Do About It

Nov 24, 2015 | Columbia University
New York City, USA

Join EPS Professors Marc Levy and Josh Fisher in a discussion about the current global context of climate disarray in the lead up to the…