Events

Gender Equality in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Nov 30, 2022 | Global Institute for Women's Leadership ANU
The Australian National University

What does gender equality mean in international peace and security? What does the UN's WPS look like in the policy and practice?

Ecological Threat Report 2022 | Building Resilience: Climate, Ecology and Conflict

Nov 18, 2022 | Geneva Center for Security Policy
online

Join the Geneva Center for Security Policy and the Institute for Economics & Peace as we take a look at the links between climate change,…

COP27 Side Event: "The Climate for Peace Initiative - Towards Multilateral Inclusive Action"

Nov 17, 2022 | adelphi and the German Federal Foreign Office
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

The impacts of the climate and environment crises can be drivers of conflict and a risk to international peace and stability, with disproportionate impacts on…

The New Customary Land Rights Act in Sierra Leone: Bringing Informed Community Consent to Responsible Investment

Nov 17, 2022 | Advancing Land-Based Investment Governance
online

In September 2022, Sierra Leone enacted unprecedented laws related to land, climate, and sustainable development. This new law transforms communities’ ability to protect their land…

Responsible Business Conduct: Past, Present & Future (Continuing Education Course)

Nov 16, 2022 - Jan 18, 2023 | swisspeace
online

Are you confused about ESG, CSR, UNGPs, GRI, L2O, VPs, and all of that? In this introductory course, participants explore the responsibilities of businesses for…

Climate Security & Agriculture: Strategies for Inclusive Adaptation

Nov 11, 2022 | "CGIAR, The Rockefeller Foundation, Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS), Government of Ireland"
Food Systems Pavillion

Women represent a large share of the world’s agricultural workers and face disproportionate climate impacts. But they are also at the forefront of climate change…

Feminist Foreign Policies: What’s Next? Perspectives from Canada, Scotland and Beyond

Nov 10, 2022 | Centre for International Policy Studies
FSS 4006 and Zoom

Since Sweden’s 2014 adoption of a feminist foreign policy, several other countries have since announced plans to introduce their own feminist foreign policies, including Spain,…

Afghanistan and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Women’s global agency and diplomacy

Nov 9, 2022 | The Gender Justice & Security Hub
Online

The systematic crack down by the Taliban in Afghanistan calls for an urgent and inclusive response to the crisis and a sharp look at UN…

Forestry, Livelihoods, and Peace: Webinar Launch of “Extended Dialogue and Peer Learning Workshop Series” Pt 2

Nov 9, 2022 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association's Forest Interest Group
online

              Part I  Roughly one-third of the world's population is closely dependent on forests and forest resources. This figure increases to 90 percent for those living on…

EnPAx at COP27

Nov 8, 2022 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association's Young Professionals Interest Group
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

The Young Professionals Interest Group (YPIG) of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) will be participating in the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the UN…

Stockholm Security Conference 2022

Nov 8, 2022 - Nov 14, 2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
online

On 8–14 November, SIPRI will convene the seventh annual Stockholm Security Conference, this year under the heading of ‘Trends of Conflict and Warfare in the…

Protecting the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict

Nov 1, 2022 - Nov 1, 2022 | Danish Institute for International Studies
online

The environment is frequently a 'silent victim' of armed conflict. Conflicts can cause long-term damage to the environment, harming people's physical and mental health and…

The Impact of Climate Change on Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes

Nov 1, 2022 | The Wilson Center
Online

Climate change directly and indirectly affects maternal and newborn health outcomes globally. Exposure to climate-related stressors can lead to adverse health outcomes, including miscarriage, low…

Introduction to Climate and Environmental Security in Peace Operations

Nov 1, 2022 - Nov 4, 2022 | Climate Diplomacy and ZIF Center for International Peace Operations
Berlin, Germany

This course is organized by the Berlin Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) in cooperation with adelphi and aims at building practical skills on understanding…

Geneva Peace Week 2022

Oct 31, 2022 - Nov 4, 2022 | Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Geneva, Switzerland and online

Geneva Peace Week is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar in which organizations in Geneva and their international partners come together to…

Public Service Perspectives | From Conservation and Conflict to Environmental Peacebuilding for a More-Than-Human World

Oct 28, 2022 | Ohio University
Athens, OH

Conservation suffers from the violence of human conflicts, while also engendering its own social and human-wildlife conflicts. Meanwhile, our approaches to conflict analysis and conflict…

Interactive Dialogue: Welcoming a New Legal Framework on Armed Conflict and the Environment

Oct 25, 2022 | Conflict and Environment Observatory, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, IUCN-WCEL Specialist Group on Environmental Security and Conflict Law, University of Essex, and University of Helsinki
New York, NY

Ahead of the adoption of the International Law Commission’s principles on the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts (PERAC), join Commission members…

Environmental Peacebuilding: A Conversation with Dr. Erika Weinthal

Oct 24, 2022 - Oct 30, 2022 | Duke University Library
Durham, NC

As part of the Duke Libraries’ annual celebration of International Open Access Week 2022, Bostock Library will host Dr. Erika Weinthal, Professor of Environmental Policy…

Book Launch: Women's Access to Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste

Oct 21, 2022 | London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace, and Security
LSE Marshall Building 2.05

This book delivers an assessment of access to transitional justice from a gender perspective. Drawing from interviews with female participants, judges and prosecutors, this book…

Women faith-based mediators: Innovation through tradition?

Oct 18, 2022 | Berghof Foundation
Online

Women faith-based mediators play an important role in conflict transformation, mediation and dialogue processes around the world. However, the mostly secular international peacebuilding and mediation…

PLAN E – How to Enact a Climate and Ecological Emergency Response

Oct 18, 2022 | University of Tasmania
online

Dr Liz Boulton recently completed a transdisciplinary research project investigating the idea of framing climate and environmental change (CEC) as a new type of threat:…

2022 Berlin Climate and Security Conference

Oct 11, 2022 - Oct 12, 2022 | German Federal Foreign Office
Berlin, Germany

The fourth edition, BCSC 2022 will take place in-person. It will convene high-level political actors, climate security experts and practitioners at the German Federal Foreign…

Report Launch – Climate, Peace and Security Assessment: Mali

Oct 7, 2022 | Geneva Center of Security Policy
Geneva, Switzerland

The launch of the new Climate, Peace, and Security Assessment: Mali, to be presented at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), in collaboration with…

Climate-Informed Security and Emergency Management: Fall 2022 Professional Development Series

Oct 6, 2022 - Oct 27, 2022 | Behavioral Science Applications LLC and Homeland Security Human Factors Institute™
online

Climate change must be on the mind of every security, emergency management, and business continuity professional. As the temperature rises, so does the risk of…

Pandemic, Social Unrest and War Echoing in the Amazon

Sep 29, 2022 - Sep 29, 2022 | Land Portal
Online

Recent global events have had dyre impacts on the world's remaining forests, particularly in tropical regions. Disease outbreak, war and social insecurity may have originated…

Women, Peace and Security

Sep 29, 2022 | Academi Heddwch Cymru
Online

Join us for this online panel discussion, which will explore the topic of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in the context of contemporary South Asia (by Dr. Soumita Basu) as…

Pandemic, Social Unrest and War Echoing in the Amazon

Sep 29, 2022 | Land Portal Foundation, Tenure Facility, Ford Foundation, and Thomson Reuters Foundation
online

Recent global events have had dyre impacts on the world's remaining forests, particularly in tropical regions. Disease outbreak, war and social insecurity may have originated…

Peacebuilding and Women Rights in Nigeria

Sep 28, 2022 | Georgetown University
Online

This webinar will be a conversation between two leading women activists (one Muslim, one Christian) who work at communal, regional, national, and international levels to…

Climate Sensitive Programming for Sustaining Peace

Sep 28, 2022 - Oct 26, 2022 | UN System Staff College
online

Climate change is considered to be one of the greatest global threats to peace and security in the 21st century. While there is no direct…

Climate Sensitive Programming for Sustaining Peace

Sep 28, 2022 - Oct 26, 2022 | United Nations System Staff College

Climate change is considered to be one of the greatest global threats to peace and security in the 21st century. While there is no direct…