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How to Do Note: Designing Gender Transformative Approaches in the Context of Women’s Land and Resource Rights

2025 | ReliefWeb
International Fund for Agricultural Development

Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) aim to challenge and change the underlying social norms, power dynamics,and systemic barriers perpetuating inequality between women and men. Unlike mainstream…

Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling Gender Equality with Tradition in Northern Uganda

2025 | Oxfam
Alexandra Foote

The Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda faces a tension in its post-conflict period: reconciling local peacebuilding approaches with national and international standards of gender equality.…

Conflict in a Warming World: How Climate Shocks Impact Rebel Demands and Peace Agreement Outcomes

2025 | PeaceRep, University of Edinburgh, and University of St Andrews
Elisa D’Amico

As climate change becomes more severe and its effects more frequently observed, its impact on global conflict is increasingly important. Climate shocks, acting as threat…

Climate Change Will Exacerbate Land Conflict between Agriculture and Timber Production

2024 | Nature Climate Change
Christopher G. Bousfield, Oscar Morton, and David P. Edwards

Timber and agricultural production must both increase throughout this century to meet rising demand. Understanding how climate-induced shifts in agricultural suitability will trigger competition with…

Climate Change as a Double-Edged Sword: Exploring the Potential of Environmental Recovery to Foster Stability in Darfur, Sudan

2025 | Climate
Abdalrahman Ahmed, Brian Rotich, and Kornel Czimber

The Darfur conflict, which emerged in the early 21st century, represents a multifaceted crisis driven by socio-political and environmental factors, with resource scarcity, exacerbated by…

Rural Women’s Participation and their Decision Making Behavior in Livestock Management and Household Activities in Central Dry Zone Area of Myanmar

2023 | Agriculture and Rural Studies
Yi Mon Thu, San San Htoo, Nyein Nyein Htwe, and Kathryn Gomersall

The study aimed to assess the factors affecting on women’s participation level and decision-making behavior of rural women in livestock management and household activities in…

The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Negotiating Peace Agreements

2025 | Negotiation Journal
Saleem H. Ali, Nancy E. Boyer, Gabriela Mundaca, Lynette de Silva, Shaghayegh Jabalameli, and Jahan Taganova

Drawing on the growing genre of literature on “environmental peacebuilding,” this article develops a qualitative model of how land and natural resources (including minerals, water,…

Peacebuilding Perspectives and Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa (chapter in "Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa")

2025 | Palgrave Macmillan
J. Shola Omotola

This chapter proposes a peacebuilding approach to the management of herder-farmer conflicts in Africa. Specifically, the chapter reflects on the contending perspectives on peacebuilding, notably…

Governing after FARC: Environmental Peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia

2025 | Peasant Studies
Mckenzie F. Johnson, Luz A. Rodriguez, and Manuela Quijano Hoyos

We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by…

Timber, Sanctions, and Conflict: Myanmar's Forest Sector Since the Coup

2025 | Forest Trends

Within a few months of the February 2021 coup d’état against the newly re-elected Union Government of Myanmar (UGoM), the United States, United Kingdom, European…

The (New) M23 Offensive on Goma: Why This Long-Lasting Conflict Is Not Only about Minerals and What Are Its Implications? – Q&A

2025 | International Peace Information Service

The rapid advance of M23 — supported by the Rwandan military (RDF) — in North Kivu has taken most of us by surprise over the…

The Bad Samaritan: Land Grabbing by Settlers through Grazing

2025 | Peace Now
Kerem Navot

Kerem Navot and Peace Now have published a joint report revealing how a small group of violent settlers, with support from the Israeli government, have…

Paz Ambiental: Ecos de la Naturaleza en la Transformación Social

2025 | German-Colombian Institute for Peace and the Humboldt Institute
Diana Morales, Mónica P. Hernández Ospina, and Luna Correa (editors)

Actualmente vivimos en un mundo lleno de guerras, destrucción ambiental, una crisis de la democracia y un aumento de las desigualdades sociales. Esta crisis múltiple…

Colombia’s Long Road toward Peace: Implications for Environmental Human Rights Defenders

2024 | Ecology and Society
Torsten Krause, Fariborz Zelli, Ana Maria Vargas Falla, Juan A. Samper, and Britta Sjöstedt

Human rights defenders, social leaders, and environmental and indigenous activists fight for political, cultural, social, economic, and environmental rights and often face intimidation and violence…

“Everyone Decided to Declare War on the Forest”: Between Territorial Peace and Pacification in the Colombian Andean-Amazon

2024 | Ecology and Society
Juan Antonio Samper, Torsten Krause, and Jesica López

In post-peace agreement Colombia, everyone declared war on the forest. In the Putumayo region, these wars take their own particular forms. Scientifically, the Putumayo is…

Twelve Research Agendas for Advancing the Peace-Sustainability Nexus

2025 | Peace and Sustainability
Dahlia Simangan, Joshua Fisher, Tobias Ide, Vally Koubi, Ayyoob Sharifi, Katherine Alfredo, John Lee Candelaria, Simon Dalby, Cullen Hendrix, Ali Kharrazi, Úrsula Oswald-Spring, and Joyashree Roy

The world's social and environmental systems are currently experiencing an increase in the number of conflicts and irreversible human-induced changes. While destabilizing, these changes offer…

How Can Land and Ecosystem Restoration Foster Peace? [Video]

2024 | adelphi
Lais Clements, Beatrice Mosello, Mary Potts, and Dorian Wevers

Land and natural resources can be connected with conflict dynamics, from local disputes to international tensions. Restoring ecosystems can bring communities together, build trust, and…

Fires as Collateral or Means of War: Challenges of Environmental Peacebuilding in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

2024 | Ecology and Society
Lina Eklund and Pinar Dinc

The patterns, frequency and intensity of vegetation fires are often studied from biophysical perspectives, outlining the impacts of climate, vegetation, and proximity to human settlements…

Harmonising Biodiversity and Climate Action with a Peace Lens in Latin America and the Caribbean

2024 | adelphi global
Hector Morales Munoz and Lais Clemente Pereira

Biodiversity conservation plays a crucial role in addressing the challenges climate change and environmental degradation pose to human security and peace. This practical note explores…

Undercurrents: How Conflict, Climate Change and the Environment Intersect in Yemen

2024 | adelphi
Sinéad Barry, Beatrice Mosello, Spencer McMurray, and Lucas Destrijcker

Undercurrents examines the complex relationship between war, increasing climate-related hazards and environmental degradation in Yemen that are undermining security and driving further conflict, particularly at…

You’re Not Welcome! Violence and Support for an Open Grazing Ban Policy in Kaduna, Nigeria

2024 | Environment and Security
Daniel Tuki

This study examines the effect of victimization and religious affiliation on support for a policy banning the open grazing of livestock in the northern Nigerian…

Geopolitical Ecology: Climate Change Geopolitics and Farmer–Herder Conflicts in West Africa

2024 | Environment and Security
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Climate change impacts various social systems and has been linked to conflicts, especially resource conflicts in dry and semi-dry lands of West Africa. Climate change…

Conflicts over Harnessing of Diamond Resources in Marange Communal Area, Eastern Zimbabwe, 2006–2015 (chapter in "Natural Resource-Based Conflicts in Rural Zimbabwe")

2024 | Taylor & Francis
Mathew Ruguwa

This chapter examines local-level conflicts over the exploitation of diamond resources in the Marange communal area of eastern Zimbabwe during the period from 2006 to…

Indigenous Peacebuilding and Environmental Restorative Justice (chapter in "Ecological Integrity and International Law: Peace, Public Health, and Global Security")

2025 | Routledge
Giada Giacomini

This chapter explores the interconnection between Indigenous peoples peacebuilding processes and environmental restorative justice. Environmental restorative justice challenges anthropological conceptualization of peacebuilding processes by considering…

Boosting the Adoption of Sustainable Land-Use Systems for Achieving Colombian Land-Based Climate Action and Peacebuilding Goals

2025 | World Development
Lisset Pérez-Marulanda, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, and Augusto Castro-Nunez

Sustainable land-use systems (SLUS), such as agroforestry cocoa, implemented using organic fertilization, prescribed post-harvest practices and rainwater irrigation, can potentially increase farm productivity, while reducing…