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Integrating Gender Perspectives into Environmental Sustainability: Ecological Security and Post-Conflict Impacts in the Middle East

2025 | Sociology and Cultural Research Review
Sania Haroon, Samrana Afzal, and Hina Butt

Understanding the pressing need to incorporate gender views into environmental sustainability initiatives in Middle Eastern conflict-affected areas with a special focus on Iraq, Syria, and…

Conflict Management as an Insular Strategy? Comparing Dyadic Learning of Dispute Resolution Strategies across Geopolitical Issues

2025 | Environment and Security
Andrew Owsiak and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

This study considers whether and how familiarity with (past usage) and the usefulness (success) of past conflict management strategies influence the way that pairs of…

Ecocide’s Evolving Relationship with War

2025 | Environment and Security
Racheal Killean

This article examines the evolving relationship between ecocide and the regulation of war, tracing its conceptual development from a war crime to a broader environmental…

The Problem of Social Justice in Environmental Peacebuilding: Between Thin and Thick Justice in Liberia

2025 | Environment and Security
Jacobo Grajales, Kou Gbaintor Johnson, and Hueward Neal

Recent research on environmental peacebuilding has encouraged scholars to move away from technocratic definitions of peace and to pay greater attention to how peacebuilding policies…

River Conflicts and Hydrological Dominance

2025 | Environment and Security
Christina Boyes and Katherine Lynch-Dombroski

How do the direction of river flow and the dynamics of power within a river basin affect international conflict and cooperation? Studies of border disputes…

The Effectiveness of Joint Basin Institutions in Managing International Water Disputes

2025 | Environment and Security
Neda Zawahri, Susanne Schmeier, and Melissa McCracken

While cooperative interaction so far outnumbers conflictive ones between states sharing transboundary water resources, the trend of interstate disputes is on the rise due to…

War in Ukraine: The Case for Environmental Peacebuilding and Reparations

2023 | Journal of the British Academy.
Natalia Slobodian

Russia’s current large-scale unprovoked invasion of Ukraine demonstrates that the environment matters, even though it is considered a secondary issue during conflicts. The war has…

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…

Geoengineering: Assessing Risks in the Era of Planetary Security

2025 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Olivia Lazard, Mandi Bissett, and James Dyke

The 1.5° Celsius global warming threshold that climate scientists have warned against for decades has been breached for several consecutive months over the last two…

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…

Formalization as a Tool for Environmental Peacebuilding? Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Liberia and Sierra Leone

2021 | International Affairs
Christina Ankenbrand, Zabrina Welter, and Nina Engwicht

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has long been a vital source of livelihoods for rural populations in the global South. Yet, it has also been…

Cross-Border Tourism as an Agent of Environmental Peacebuilding

2025 | Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Connor Clark, Daniel G. Pilgreen, and Dallen J. Timothy

This grounded theory study examines cross-border tourism as an agent in environmental peacebuilding by fostering cooperative resource management in borderland regions. The Big Bend Rio…

EcoPeace Middle East Desk Study of the Geo-political, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility of a Middle East - Europe Renewable Energy Corridor

2025 | Qamar Energy and EcoPeace Middle East

Clean energy is a crucial opportunity to foster sustainable development, economic reconstruction, and peace and reconciliation, between Israel, Palestine and the neighbouring countries of Jordan,…

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,…

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…

Participatory Approaches to Conflict, Climate Change and Environment: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa

2025 | Arab Reform Initiative and Robert Bosch Stiftung
Sammy Kayed, Shivan Fazil, Hussam Hussein, Asma Khalifa, Abeer Butmeh, Abdalftah Hamed Ali, Sarine Karajerjian, Ahmad Al-wadaey, and Tobias Zumbraegel

The MENA countries have been confronting profound and far-reaching climate shocks. Experts widely agree that human-driven activity intensely shapes escalating climate stressors—including extreme weather events—dwindling…

The Economic Consequences of Climate Change for Afghanistan: Losses, Projections … and Pathways to Mitigation

2025 | Afghanistan Analyst Network
Mohammad Assem Mayar

Despite contributing minimally to global emissions, Afghanistan faces escalating economic and social crises from climate change. Climate shocks, such as from floods, droughts, landslides, avalanches…

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 Paradox of Climate Resilience and Elusive Peace in the Lake Chad Basin: A Case for an Adaptive Governance Approach

2025 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Lembe Tiky and Melvis Ndiloseh

For several decades, the Lake Chad Basin has served as a laboratory for scientific inquiries on anthropogenic security challenges in Africa. Between 1963 and the…

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…

Saving the World with Organic Agriculture: Environmental Peacebuilding in the Nascent Democracy of Myanmar

2025 | University of New England
Johanna Garnett, Marty Branagan, and Rebecca Spence

In Myanmar, a history of structural and ecological violence has resulted in environmental degradation, loss of livelihoods and food insecurity for agrarian populations. This is…

Transboundary Water Rights and Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflict Prevention through Functional Transboundary River Basin Institution-Building in the Southern African Development Community Region

2025 | Frontiers in Water
Dumsani Mndzebele

Many scholars of conflict and hydropolitics argue that not all cooperation is good, and neither is all conflict bad. Hydro-diplomacy scholarship also presents these two…

Civic Power in Mining Conflicts: Barrier or Catalyst for a Just Energy Transition [Video]

2025 | Institute of Development Studies
Anabel Marin and Gabriel Palazzo

This seminar presents the first systematic global mapping of civil resistance to mineral extraction, examining its implications for the energy transition. Using GDELT data (2015–2022),…

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…

Restoring Dignity by Granting Rights: IHL and Peacebuilding Empowerment for Magdalena River Fishing Communities in Colombia

2025 | International Review of the Red Cross
Lucas Martinez-Villalba

This article examines the role of international humanitarian law (IHL) in safeguarding artisanal fishing communities residing along the banks of the Magdalena River in Colombia…