Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Conflict Causes

Climate, Environment and Human Security in Brazil: Response Landscape and Leadership Opportunities

2025 | adelphi global
Raquel Munayer, Laís Clemente Pereira, and Héctor Camilo Morales Muñoz

Brazil is navigating a complex landscape shaped by the ongoing impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, with significant long-term implications for human security and…

Environmental Peacebuilding as a Climate-Security Priority for the EU – Examples from the Sahel

2025 | ECDPM
Sara Gianesello and Sophie Desmidt

The Central Sahel faces interlinked crises of conflict, climate change and fragility, but responses have been fragmented. Environmental peacebuilding offers opportunities to promote cooperation between…

The Linkages between Water Security, Conflict, Participation, and Governance in Smallholder Irrigation Schemes in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling Approach

2025 | Frontiers
Lerato Phali, Denver Naidoo, and Maxwell Mudhara

The increasing competition for water resources leads to conflict, as utility-maximizing farmers aim to improve their productivity to enhance food security and economic well-being. Conflicts…

Sudan: Women, Food Insecurity, and Famine Risk in Sudan, Gender Snapshot

2025 | UN Women
UN Women

This fact sheet, developed by the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group Sudan, highlights key gendered trends from World Food Programme Quarter 1 2025…

Perils of Peacebuilding: Gender-Blindness, Climate Change and Ceasefire Capitalism in Colombia and Myanmar (chapter in "Feminist Conversations on Peace")

2022 | Bristol University Press
Henri Myrttinen and Diana López Castañeda

Peacebuilding requires a complex set of operations and transformations that address root causes of conflict, repairs victims and creates trust – all of which are…

Can the Military Fight Climate Change? A Review of Sherri Goodman, “Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security” (Island Press, 2024).

2025 | Lawfare
Andrea H. Cameron

“If we believe the old adage ‘out of crisis, comes opportunity,’ the opportunity has never been greater.” This statement in Sherri Goodman’s “Threat Multiplier: Climate,…

A Multi-Level Spatial Assessment Framework for Identifying Land Use Conflict Zones

2025 | Land Use Policy
Danyang Wang, Mingshu Wang, Wei Zheng, Yaya Song, and Xianjin Huang

Land use conflicts (LUCs) are pivotal in understanding the complex interactions between human activities and global changes. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to analyze…

How the Ongoing Armed Conflict between Russia and Ukraine Can Affect the Global Wheat Food Security?

2025 | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb and Velu Govindan

This study examines the potential impacts of Russia-Ukraine armed conflict on the consumption and trade of wheat and wheat food security. Russia and Ukraine jointly…

The Thirst for Power: Overcoming the Politics of Water in the Middle East

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Natasha Hall, Robin Savage, Hassan Janabi, Neda Zawahri, and Ciarán Ó Cuinn

The Middle East has battled water insecurity for centuries, but today, the region is on a razor’s edge. Climate change and overuse have threatened water…

Abeer Butmeh - Second Annual Conference on Conflict and Climate Change in MENA [Video]

2024 | Arab Reform Initiative and Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network- Friends of Earth Palestine

Meet Abeer Butmeh, a distinguished water and environmental engineer who serves as the coordinator for PENGON-FoE Palestine. Renowned as a leading activist for environmental justice…

IOM Somalia's Environmental Peacebuilding Programme 2025 [Video]

2025 | IOM Somalia Mission

Widespread environmental damage in Somalia heightens competition for dwindling resources, intensifies existing conflicts and can lead to new ones. IOM Somalia's Environmental Peacebuilding programme focuses…

Disciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Environmental Science and International Relations

2025 | Anthropogenic Solutions for Climate Change
Olivier Serrat

By integrating environmental considerations into peacebuilding initiatives, we can create lasting solutions that address recurring root causes of conflict, such as competition over natural resources,…

The Fourth Year of the Opium Ban: An Update from Two of Afghanistan’s Major Poppy-Growing Areas

2025 | Afghanistan Analyst Network
Fabrizio Foschini and Jelena Bjelica

The Islamic Emirate’s ban on opium cultivation has entered its fourth year and apart from the first harvest of opium poppies in spring 2022, when…

The Bakhshabad Dam in Afghanistan and Its Impacts on the Hamoun Wetlands

2025 | Institute for East Strategic Studies
Seyedeh Zahra Qureishi

The completion and operation of the Bakhshabad Dam in Afghanistan threatens human security in the water sector. The countries that have decided to build the…

Women’s Resistance to War, Injustice, and Environmental Crisis

2025 | Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Genevieve Riccoboni and Jacqueline Dyna

The root causes, manifestations and attempts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis all hold profound implications for gender equality and human security. Women,…

Women’s Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding: Converging Nature, Climate, and Peace

2025 | CCCU Research Space Repository
I. Kopytsia and N. Slobodian

This article examines the role of female leadership in environmental peacebuilding, focusing on the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. It explores how women have…

Green Flashpoints: How the Surge In Renewable Energy May Spark a New Era of Global Conflict – Analysis

2025 | Eurasia Review
Syed Raiyan Amir

As the world races to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, a new energy order is beginning to emerge—one that promises cleaner air and…

Indonesia in 2035: Climate Risks to Security in the Indo-Pacific

2025 | Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Michael Copage, Robert Glasser, and Isabelle Bond

The Indo-Pacific region is particularly exposed to climate impacts, and Indonesia, like many countries, will be severely affected by climate impacts in the decade to…

Bridging Gaps in Water Governance: Addressing Conflict and Climate Challenges

2025 | Peace Research Institute Oslo
Stefan Döring

Despite frequent warnings of ‘water wars’, conflicts over water rarely escalate into violence. While most disputes over water access, quantity, or infrastructure remain non-violent, the…

Making Peace with Nature: Contributions on Environmental Justice and Peacebuilding from Colombia [Video]

2025 | Hiroshima NERPS
Venesa Giraldo and Inge Valencia

In Colombia, the challenges of ecological degradation are deeply influenced by the dynamics of armed conflict in diverse and complex ways. Nature is a direct…

Water Security in the Polycrisis: Between Negative and Positive Tipping Points

2025 | Frontiers
Jurgen Scheffran

Water security is facing multiple stressors in the emerging polycrisis of the Anthropocene, with a great acceleration challenging planetary boundaries and human livelihoods. In a…

Climate, Peace, and Conflict—Past and Present: Bridging Insights from Historical Sciences and Contemporary Research

2025 | Ambio
Sam White, Dominik Collet, Agustí Alcoberro, Mariano Barriendos, Rudolf Brázdil, Pau Castell, Siyu Chen, Cedric de Coning, Dagomar Degroot, Lukáš Dolák, Stefan Döring, Santiago Gorostiza, Katrin Kleemann, Florian Krampe, Kuan-Hui Lin, Nicolas Maughan, Nat

Concern has risen that current global warming and more frequent extreme events such as droughts and floods will increase conflict around the world. This concern…

15 Key Takeaways from a Decade of Climate Security Reporting

2025 | Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Peter Schwartzstein

For nearly two decades, the connections between climate change and security have been debated and discussed in a diverse array of fora—from universities, think tanks,…

Climate Change and Peacebuilding: Sub-Themes of an Emerging Research Agenda

2024 | International Affairs
Florian Krampe, Dylan O'Driscoll, McKenzie Johnson, Dahlia Simangan, Farah Hegazi, and Cedric de Coning

Climate change is having profound effects on global security and peacebuilding efforts. While existing research has mainly focused on the link between climate change and…

Missing the Target: Examining the Causes of the Conflict on the Afghanistan-Iran Border in May 2023

2025 | ALCIS
David Mansfield

This policy brief shares key findings and implications for policy from a forthcoming XCEPT study on the escalation in violence along the Afghanistan-Iran border on…

The Politics of Eco-Violence: Why Is Conflict Escalating in Nigeria’s Middle Belt?

2022 | Terrorism and Political Violence
Ezenwa E. Olumba

In Nigeria’s Middle Belt, competition for land and other resources has intensified between nomadic Fulani herders and sedentary farmers. What were initially sporadic conflicts over…

Challenges to the Bedouin Traditional Natural Resources Management Systems: The Case of the Bedouin Hadandawa’s of Eastern Sudan

2025 | Sociological Demography Press
Omer A. Hayati, Samir M. Ali Alredaisy, Mohammed Abu Elhassan Elgasim, and Mohamed Elnour Yassen

This research investigates the customary natural resource management system of the Bedouin Hadandawa in Eastern Sudan and identifies the problems it encounters in comparison to…