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An Update on the Impact of International Sanctions on Myanmar’s Forest Sector: Four Years Since the Coup

2026 | Forest Trends

Since the February 2021 coup, importing countries have reported more than US$1.45 billion in the import of forest product from Myanmar. This is an increase…

Episode 756: Environmental Peacebuilding Law [Video]

2026 | Project Save the World
Metta Spencer

Carl Bruch, an environmental lawyer who founded an organization looking into the impact of war on the environment. Alex Belyakov is a consultant producing, with…

A Close Look at the OTP-ICC Policy on Environmental Damage [Video]

2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Munini Mutuku, Daniëlla Dam-de Jong, and James Gondi

Environmental damage in conflict and post conflict societies, and its subsequent impacts on both ecosystems and the peoples’ human rights, has increasingly become a point…

Climate, Peace, and Security Consultation in Yemen – Results Report 2026

2026 | European Institute of Peace
Elias Kharma, Laura Geres, Albert Martinez, Suaad Al-Salahi, and Hashim Al-Omeisy

This report presents the results of an extensive consultation that reached out to over 3,600 people in Yemen as part of the project Environmental Pathways…

Briefing on Energy, Critical Minerals, and Security

2026 | Security Council Report

This briefing aims to explore the link between energy dominance and competition for natural resources, such as critical minerals, and its implications for the maintenance…

Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability

2026 | MIT Press
Silvia Danielak

The first comprehensive account of infrastructure building in United Nations peace operations. Roads, bridges, a renewable power plant, and an electricity grid: UN peacekeepers might…

Nature Crimes: The Convergence of Criminal Ecomonomies in the Mekong Region

2026 | Forest Trends
Kevin M. Woods

The Mekong Region—particularly the tri-border “Golden Triangle” of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand—has become a hub where environmental exploitation and criminal activity converge, collectively generating billions…

"Global Environmental Challenges" in Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis

2025 | Cambridge University Press
Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson

Any discussion of ‘gender perspectives on X’ or ‘feminist approaches to Y’ must acknowledge and respond to the extreme precarity of the historical moment in…

Populism, Post-truth Politics and Disaster Risk: Challenges for Governance and Marginalised Communities

2025 | DRR Dynamics
Kevin Blanchard

This policy brief explores the intersection of populism, post-truth politics, and disaster risk governance, with a focus on their impacts on marginalised groups. Populism, characterised…

Conflicts and Trends to Watch in 2026

2026 | Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Jessica Anania, Vicka Heidt, Anna Tuohey, and Jessica M. Smith

Entering 2026, the global security landscape is defined by record-high levels of armed conflict, democratic backsliding, geopolitical fragmentation, and an accelerating climate crisis—dynamics unfolding alongside…

Ungoverned Space and Regional Spillover, Rethinking Afghanistan’s Borders

2026 | Modern Diplomacy
Sahibzada Usman

The Afghanistan crisis is generally spoken of as a crisis of the hour in terms of the Taliban, outside power intervention, or an unsuccessful election…

China, Afghanistan, and Critical Minerals: Options for US Strategic Competition Below the Threshold of War

2026 | Small Wars Journal
Sean Ryan and Adib Farhadi

Afghanistan remains relevant to the United States in the context of Great Power Competition. While China assumed a major role in Afghanistan after the US…

Towards Environmental Peacebuilding in Nepal: Understanding Violence, Addressing Conflicts, and Strengthening Governance

2026 | Centre for Social Change
Pratiksha Giri, Dipin Subedi, Prasansa Thapa, Prakash Bhattarai, and Pawan Roy

This report explores environmental peacebuilding as a strategy for converting shared environmental challenges into avenues for dialogue, cooperation, and trust among conflicting groups in Nepal.…

Agenda for Environmental Peacebuilding in Nepal

2026 | Centre for Social Change

This ‘Agenda for Environmental Peacebuilding in Nepal’ addresses a critical challenge: environmental degradation, resource-based conflicts, and climate change are threatening not only ecosystems but the…

Integrated Assessment of Climate-Related Security Risks for Peace and Security in Blue Nile, Sudan, and Their Gender Dimensions

2026 | UNEP
Hector Morales Munoz, Lukas Rüttinger, and Yosr Khèdr

The Blue Nile State in Sudan is grappling with a severe and escalating crisis, marked by an intensifying conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)…

The International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: A New Mandate for Climate Security

2026 | Toda Peace Institute
Emma Whitaker and Atieh Khatibi

This report examines the historic advisory opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on July 23, 2025. The opinion reframes climate change as…

The Effects of Rebel Environmental Governance on Vulnerability: Evidence from Hezbollah in Lebanon

2026 | Typescript Uppsala University
Michaela Peters-Salah

Millions of people live in places that are controlled or contested by rebel groups. Many of these people are also subject to the compounding vulnerabilities…

The Effects of Climate Change on Security

2026 | NATO Science and Technology Organization

This report analyses how climate change rapidly transforms NATO’s strategic environment. Four case studies are presented: the northwestern parts of Africa, the Arctic, the east…

"We Are Building a Fortress on Quicksand": The Fatal Flaw in Europe’s Defense Boom [Video]

2026
Florian Krampe

At the Austrian National Bank, Dr Florian Krampe delivers a wake-up call to European policymakers: The massive reallocation of capital toward defense is destined to…

Climate, Conflict and the Development Squeeze [Audio]

2026 | In Pursuit of Development
Florian Krampe and Dan Banik

Dan Banik and Florian Krampe explore how climate change is reshaping development and security debates -- not as a single cause of conflict, but as…

Critical Minerals and Contested Sovereignty: Inside the US–DRC Agreement

2026 | Public Citizen, Friends of the Congo, United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society, and Earthworks

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has endured escalating violence and upheaval since the 2022 revival of a historic regional conflict. Rwanda-backed M23 and…

Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era

2026 | United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health
Kaveh Madani

Published on the occasion of UNU-INWEH’s 30th anniversary, and ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference, this flagship report, Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our…

Climate Security and Climate Justice, Recognizing Context in the Sahel

2026 | Australian Journal of Emergency Management
Tor A. Benjaminsen

Benjaminsen explores the complex interplay between climate change, security and justice in the Sahel region of West Africa. He emphasises the importance of understanding historical,…

Navigating the Waters: A Hegemonic Stability Theory Analysis of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Its Impact on Hydro-Politics in the Nile Basin

2025 | ESP International Journal of Science, Humanities and Management Studies
Mutktar Usmen and Irshad Ahmad

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) signifies a critical milestone in the intricate landscape of transboundary water management within the Nile Basin, inciting a contentious…