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Kabul's Water Crisis: An Inflection Point for Action

2025 | Mercy Corps

This report outlines the escalating threats to water access, health, and stability in Afghanistan’s capital. With aquifers nearing depletion, widespread contamination, and funding for WASH…


How Increasing Global Military Expenditure Threatens SDG 13 on Climate Action

2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

This paper outlines the impact of rising military expenditure on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 13: take urgent action to combat climate change and…


Editorial: Climate Change, Natural Resources, and Human Security in Governance and Society: Vulnerabilites and Adaptation Strategies

2025 | Frontiers
Muhlis Madani, Simon Gray, Mergen Dyussenov, and Farida Tadjine

Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges of our time, affecting every aspect of life on Earth. Among the most significant…


Big Oil Is Fueling a Rise in Cancer in Iraq's Basra

2025 | New Lines Magazine
Margaux Seigneur and Pauline Gauer

In Aradah, a southern Iraqi town of just over 50,000 people, the end of the day arrives quietly, veiled in a haze that seems to…


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…


Germany's National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment

2025 | Metis ­Institute for Strategy and Foresight, adelphi research, BND, ­and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

This National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment outlines the risks to Germany’s national security resulting from climate change up until 2040. In accordance with the National…


Climate, Peace and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Katongo Seyuba

Local communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) face the combined challenge of climate change and violent conflict, which exacerbates vulnerabilities, poverty, displacement…


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…


Challenges of Environmental Governance in Afghanistan under Taliban 2.0

2025 | Journal of Polity and Society
Mohammad Reza Rafat and K. M. Sajad Ibrahim

Afghanistan, a country with a rich tapestry of natural landscapes and diverse ecosystems, has faced numerous challenges over the past few decades, with environmental governance…


Third Security and Development Dialogue on Environmental Crime: Advancing Multilateral and Multi-stakeholder Responses

2025 | Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

This international conference was convened in recognition of environmental crimes as threat multipliers to an increasingly fractured and vulnerable planet. They pose threats to not…


From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Neocolonialism, and Environmental Conflicts in Africa

2025 | World Development
Roberto Cantoni, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Elia Apostolopoulou, Julien-François Gerber, Patrick Bond, and Joan Martinez-Alier

Africa stands out as the continent where the legacies of colonialism and the ongoing dynamics of neo- and post-colonialism are felt most profoundly. In its…


Destabilization from ‘within’: A “Termite Theory” of Climate’s Pathway to Violence

2025 | Council on Strategic Risks
Peter Schwartzstein

When we talk about climate’s contribution to violence, we generally characterize these stresses as external forces, as destabilizers applying pressure to already ‘messy’ socio-political contexts…


Preventing Starvation Crimes: Lessons Learned from Tigray

2025 | Stimson Center
Shane Goetz

Despite the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2417 six years ago, conflict continues to drive acute food insecurity around the globe. From Gaza to…


National Interdiciplinary Climate Risk Assessment

2025
Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight

This National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment outlines the risks to Germany’s national security resulting from climate change up until 2040. In accordance with the National…


Building Resilience through Climate Action: Gender, Peace, and Security in Sri Lanka

2025 | Toda Peace Institute
Janani Vivekananda

Sri Lanka is at a crossroads. The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly visible, with erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts, and rising sea levels disrupting…


Building Critical Minerals Cooperation between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Gracelin Baskaran

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries, and in 2024, it attracted the largest volume of mineral…


Peace Engineering in Practice: China’s Energy Diplomacy Strategy and Its Global Implications

2023 | Sustainability
Lin Liang, Lei Jin, Gurpreet Singh Selopal, and Federico Rosei

As the world’s largest energy importer, consumer and with the second-largest economy, China is heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Massive energy imports make China a…


Are Wolves the Real Problem? Challenges Faced by Livestock Farmers Living Alongside Wolves in Northwestern Greece

2025 | Sustainability
Maria Petridou and Vassiliki Kati

Mitigating human–wolf conflict is crucial, yet conventional approaches often overlook the broader socioeconomic challenges faced by farming communities. Wolves frequently become scapegoats for deeper rooted…


Factors Affecting Transboundary Water Disputes: Nile, Indus, and Euphrates–Tigris River Basins

2025 | Water
Mujib Ahmad Azizi and Jorge Leandro

Transboundary water disputes arise as nations compete over shared water resources, exacerbated by climate change, socio-economic inequalities, and geopolitical tensions. These disputes, prominent in river…


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…


From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding: Exploring Local Dimensions

2025 | Environment and Security
Jan Sändig, Natalia Dalmer, Tobias Ide, and Anselm Vogler

Environmental change and armed conflict are major challenges of the 21st century. Meanwhile, scholars and practitioners increasingly recognize the environment and natural resources as not…


The US Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement—Implications for Global Climate Governance and Security

2025 | Environment and Security
Ashok Swain, Carl Bruch, Tobias Ide, Päivi Lujala, Richard A. Matthew, Erika Weinthal, and Tom Deligiannis

The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015, is a landmark international accord designed to combat climate change by limiting global warming to below 2°C, with an…


Pathways to Respond to Climate Change, Forced Displacement, and Conflict Challenges

2025 | Environment and Security
Edoardo Borgomeo and Anders Jägerskog

The collision of climate impacts with forced displacement and conflict renders efforts to promote peace and development particularly challenging. Most of the academic literature to…


Hidden Depths — Introduction: Water Conflict and Cooperation [Video]

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Doug Weir, Iryna Babanina, and Peter Gleick

In June 2023, Russian troops deliberately destroyed the Kakhovka dam in southeast Ukraine, highlighting an alarming trend: Water resources are facing increasing pressure from armed…


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…


Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa

2024 | START: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (University of Maryland)
Salma Bouziani, Steve S. Sin, Madeline Romm, and Louis M. Wasser

While the consequences of climate change and climate security issues have global ramifications, certain regions bear a disproportionate burden of extreme impacts due to geographical…


Cultivating Common Ground on Climate, Peace and Security

2025 | Peace and Security Council Report

The 774th meeting of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) in 2018 discussed the link between climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ and conflicts in…


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…


Natural Resource Dependence and War Nexus: New Insights

2025 | Defence and Peace Economics
Farah al Shami, Mahmoud Arayssi, Walid Marrouch, and Nagham Sayour

This paper examines the channels through which resource dependence affects the probability of war. The authors consider all types of war within a worldwide panel…


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…