Public Health
Climate Change and Agriculture: The Competition for Limited Resources Amidst Crop Farmers-livestock Herding Conflict in Nigeria - A Review
2020
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Journal of Clearer Production
O. Alaanuloluwa Ikhuoso, M.J. Adegbeye, M.M.Y. Elghandour, M. Mellado, S.N. Al-Dobaib, and A.Z.M Salem
In Nigeria, there have been clashes between herdsmen and crop farmers. While a lot of people have adjudged it to be solely a religious and…
On Health and Water Security (Chapter in "Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration)
2020
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Springer
Úrsula Oswald Spring
Climate change is severely affecting the availability of water and its quality. Therefore it represents a direct challenge to health. Not only the water-born, but…
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Conflict in Syria
2016
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
Waleed S. Al-Salem, David M. Pigott, Krishanthi Subramaniam, Lee Rafuse Haines, Louise Kelly-Hope, David H. Molyneux, Simon I. Hay, and Alvaro Acosta-Serrano
War, infection, and disease have always made intimate bedfellows, with disease recrudescence characterizing most conflict zones. Recently, increasing violence from civil war and terrorist activity…
Opinion: Sustainable Development Must Account for Pandemic Risk
2020
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Moreno Di Marco, Michelle Baker, Peter Daszak, Paul De Barro, Evan Eskew, Cecile Godde, Tom Harwood, Mario Herrero, Andrew Hoskins, Erica Johnson, William Karesh, Catherine Machalaba, Javier Navarro Garcia, Dean Paini, Rebecca Pirzl, Mark Smith, Carlos Za
The United Nations (UN) launched the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to address an ongoing crisis: human pressure leading to unprecedented environmental degradation, climatic change,…
Afghanistan: Humanitarian Response Plan 2018-2021 (2020 Mid-Year Monitoring Report)
2020
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
After 40 years of war, annual natural disasters and persistent poverty, the people of Afghanistan have been dealt another deadly blow from COVID-19. The COVID-19…
COVID-19 and Armed Conflict
2020
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World Development
Tobias Ide
This article studies the impact of COVID-19 on armed conflict. The pandemic has significant health, economic and political effects. These can change the grievances and…
The Climate Crisis and the Changing Security Environment of the Middle East
2020
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EcoPeace Middle East and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Climate variability is generally not regarded as a direct cause of conflict but rather as a phenomenon that can worsen or exacerbate pre-existing sources of…
Troubled Waters: Documenting Pollution of Iraq’s Shatt Al-Arab River
2020
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Bellingcat
Wim Zwijnenburg
When the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers meet in southern Iraq, they take on a new name. They become the Shatt al-Arab, the River of…
The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War
2020
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The Nation
Laura Gottesdiener
Three years after American soldiers besieged her city, Iraqi pediatrician Samira Alani began to see a problem in the maternity ward. Women were bearing infants…
Solving the Jigsaw of Conflict-Related Environmental Damage: Utilizing Open-Source Analysis to Improve Research into Environmental Health Risks
2020
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Journal of Public Health
Wim Zwijnenburg, David Hochhauser, Omar Dewachi, Richard Sullivan, and Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Investigation of the environmental impacts of armed conflict has been made easier in recent years with the development of new and improved methods for documenting…
Modern Military Weaponry and (un)Sustainable Treatment of the Environment
2020
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The Commons: Puget Sound Journal of Politics
Melanie Siacotos
This mindset could have been sustainable in ancient warfare but isn't anymore. Where wars were fought with swords they are now fought with explosives. Weaponry…
The Environment in Warfare-Related Policy Making: The Case in Ukraine
2020
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Small Wars Journal
Richard Marcantonio and Kristina Hook
In the chaotic reality of wars and armed conflicts, environmental issues are often downgraded in long lists of policy priorities. We suggest that this reality…
From Insights to Action: Gender Equality in the Wake of COVID-19
2020
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UN Women
Ginette Azcona, Antra Bhatt, Jessamyn Encarnacion, Juncal Plazaola-Castaño, Papa Seck, Silke Staab, and Laura Turquet
This publication summarizes the data, research and policy work produced by UN Women on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls, including…
Water Law and Governance in Post‐Conflict Settings
2020
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Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law
Carl Bruch, Erika Weinthal, and Jessica Troell
In the aftermath of conflict, managing water is critical, as access to water and sanitation is necessary for meeting basic human needs, restoring livelihoods, ensuring…
Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Waste Management (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
2020
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environmental SCIENTIST
Thorsten Kallnischkies
Waste management after disasters and conflicts is usually outside the focus of public attention, and often a blind spot in post-conflict/post-disaster (PC/PD) early recovery and…
Landmines and the Environment – Can We Do Better? (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
2020
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environmental SCIENTIST
Linsey Cottrell and Kendra Dupuy
The late Princess Diana’s involvement with the work of The HALO Trust did much to highlight the issue of anti-personnel landmines. The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban…
Conceptual Site Models to Support Environmental Management of Training Areas (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
2020
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environmental SCIENTIST
Ole Feurer, Tracey Temple, and Melissa Ladyman
The contamination of land and water by energetic materials (explosive fillers and propellants) has become a considerable environmental problem worldwide. For example, 70 years after…
Left Out and Left Behind: Ignoring Women Will Prevent Us From Solving the Hunger Crisis
2020
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CARE
Sarah Fuhrman, Emily Janoch, Rebekah Koch, Khin Oo, Vanessa Parra, and Tonya Rawe
The COVID-19 pandemic is unfolding in a world that is already experiencing a hunger crisis, one in which 2 billion people—one in every four people—do…
Climate Change and Collective Violence
2017
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Annual Review of Public Health
Barry S. Levy, Victor W. Sidel, and Jonathan A. Patz
Climate change is causing increases in temperature, changes in precipitation and extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and other environmental impacts. It is also causing or…
COVID-19 and Environmental Peacebuilding in Colombia (A Road to Geneva Event) [English] [Video]
2020
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies/Rethinking Diplomacy Program, Global Green Growth Institute, and Environmental Law Institute
This online event explored the challenges to environmental peacebuilding in Colombia during COVID-19, the effects of the pandemic on social dynamics around land and the…
COVID-19 and Environmental Peacebuilding in Colombia (A Road to Geneva Event) [Spanish] [Video]
2020
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies/Rethinking Diplomacy Program, Global Green Growth Institute, and Environmental Law Institute
This webinar was held in Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation in English. Please follow the link at the bottom of this page for the English version.
This…
The Potential Impact of Water Quality on the Spread and Control of COVID-19 in Syrian Refugee Camps in Lebanon
2020
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Water International
Issmat I. Kassem and Hadi Jaafar
The Syrian civil war has been raging since 11 March 2011, causing millions of civilians to seek refuge in safer countries, including Lebanon, a small…
A Feminist Call to Be Radical: Linking Women's Health and Planetary Health
2020
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Politics & Gender
Maria Tanyag
Reflecting on the two previous conversations in Politics & Gender (2015 and 2017) regarding the diverging paths in global political economy and security studies that…
Global Peace Index 2020: Measuring Peace in a Complex World
2020
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Institute for Economics & Peace
Institute for Economics & Peace
This is the 14th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. Produced…
The Waste from French Nuclear Tests in Algeria: Radioactivity under the Sand -- Analysis with Regard to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
2020
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Heinrich Böll Foundation
Jean-Marie Collin and Patrice Bouveret
The Hoggar massif is located in the west of the Algerian Sahara. Prehistoric men have left stunning rock carvings there. The men of the 20th…
Illegal Mining in Venezuela: Death and Devastation in the Amazonas and Orinoco Regions
2020
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Center for Strategic & International Studies
Carrie Filipetti, Alessandra Pinna, and Carlos Holmes Trujillo
While the economic, humanitarian, and political crisis in Venezuela worsens, criminal groups—including gangs, Colombian guerrilla groups, and colectivos (paramilitary groups)—are competing for control of the…
We Demand Change: Violence against Women and Girls in the Greater Horn of Africa during COVID-19
2020
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SIHA Network
There is an attitude that VAWG is unimportant in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. This briefing paper endeavours to highlight just how untrue and…
Temperature Anomalies Affect Violent Conflicts in African and Middle Eastern Warm Regions
2020
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Global Environmental Change
David Helman and Bejamin Zaitchik
Several studies have linked high temperatures to increases in violent conflicts. The findings are controversial, however, as there has been no systematic cross-sectional analysis performed…
The Effect of Security on Environmental Development in Nigeria
2019
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Erudite Journal
Daramola Oluwatoyin
This paper discussed the effect of security on environmental development in Nigeria. The growing outbreaks of violent conflict may be linked to environmental degradation and…
The Exacerbation of Ebola Outbreaks by Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2019
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PNAS
Chad R. Wells, Abhishek Pandey, Martial L. Ndeffo Mbah, Bernard-A. Gaüzère, Denis Malvy, Burton H. Singer, and Alison P. Galvani
The interplay between civil unrest and disease transmission is not well understood. Violence targeting healthcare workers and Ebola treatment centers in the Democratic Republic of…