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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…

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…

Climate Change, Environmental Law, and National Security [Video]

2025 | Duke Law’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Mark Nevitt

Since 1995, the Duke Law’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The…

Wartime Geomorphological Damage and Geodiversity Loss in Ukraine

2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory
Rob Watson and Stella Shekhunova

Since 2014, huge swathes of Ukraine’s geological heritage have been affected by fighting or militarily occupied, in many places causing irreversible damage to Ukraine’s landscapes.…

Emissions, the Strategic Omission: Climate Security and Australia’s National Intelligence Community

2025 | International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
Isabelle Bond

The Australian Government has identified climate change as being a threat to national security. With the emerging prospect that a climate
security policy will be established,…

Sri Lanka SDG Fund 2024 Results Report: A Shared Investment in Sri Lanka's Future

2025 | UN Sri Lanka

The UN Sri Lanka SDG Fund 2024 Results Report showcases the impact of the United Nations in Sri Lanka, highlighting key initiatives and achievements in peacebuilding…

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…