Public Health


Can Peace Operations Mitigate the Effect of Armed Conflict on Malnutrition? Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

2023 | Environment and Security
Kyle Beardsley and Jessica Beardsley

Armed conflict increases food insecurity leading to malnutrition especially in women, but can peace operations mitigate the increased prevalence of malnutrition in conflict zones? This…


Proactive Resilience and Opportunities for Gender Equity in Security & Sustainability (PROGRESS) in the Asia-Pacific: The Index for Gendered Health Security amid Climate Change

2024 | Pacific Forum International
Caroline Greenwood Wood, and James Caledron

The “Proactive Resilience and Opportunities for Gender Equity in Security & Sustainability (PROGRESS)” report, prepared by Pacific Forum International for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s Office of…


Triple-Crises-Induced Food Insecurity: Systematic Understanding and Resilience Building Approaches in Africa

2023 | Science in One Health
Ernest Tambo, Chen-Sheng Zhang, Gildas B. Tazemda, Bertin Fankep, Ngo T. Tappa, Cremona F. Bette Bkamko, Laura M. Tsague, Daniella Tchemembe, Elodie F. Ngazoue, Kennedy K. Korie, Marie Paule N. Djobet, Oluwasogo A. Olalubi, and Omer N. Njajou

The triple crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change have severely impacted food systems, leading to socio-economic consequences and undermining food and nutrition…


Mineral Wealth Paradox: Health Challenges and Environmental Risks in African Resource-Rich Areas

2024 | BMC Public Health
Emmanuel Adu Sarfo and Rabbi Tweneboah

Africa is blessed with vast arable land and enriched with valuable natural resources encompassing both renewable (like water, forests, and fisheries) and non-renewable (such as…


Food Systems and Access to Healthy Food in an Amazonian Context

2024 | Sustainability
Renato S. Maluf, Luciene Burlandy, Rosângela P. Cintrão, Theresa Tribaldos, and Emilia Jomalinis

The article aims to identify how systemic, multi-scale dynamics influence access to adequate and healthy food and eating and how food is produced and circulated…


The Scars beyond Bullets: Recognizing the Environmental Toll of War

2024 | International Journal of Science and Research Archive
Titilayo Aishat Otukoya

Warfare, throughout history, has not only shaped geopolitical landscapes but has left an indelible mark on the environment. The unintended consequences of armed conflicts extend…


A Polluting War: Risk, Experts, and the Politics of Monitoring Wartime Environmnetal Harm in Eastern Ukraine

2024 | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
Freek van der Vet

War always harms the environment. As the fog of war produces unreliable data, it also obstructs our capacity to monitor those harms. While some call…


Effects of Illegal Mining on Human Security in Ghana

2024 | Medicon Engineering Themes
Kwadwo Addo Tuffuor and Richard Babil Takora

The environmental and socioeconomic effects of mining and human security challenges are a source of worry to most govern- ments all over the world. It…


Associations between Violent Crime Inside and Outside, Air Temperature, Urban Heat Island Magnitude and Urban Green Space

2023 | International Journal of Biometeorology
Heather R. Stevens, Petra L. Graham, Paul J. Beggs, and Alessandro Ossola

There are more incidents of violence in summer and on hot days, a trend likely to be exacerbated by climate change. Urban areas experience additional…


Environmental Conflict and the Expansion of Renewable Energy in Central America: Exploring Canadian Participation

2023 | Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Simon Granovsky-Larsen and Paulina Larreátegui Benavides

As capacity to generate and distribute renewable energy expands across Central America, environmental conflict is on the rise, with communities confronting dispossession of water and…


Environmental Defenders in the Philippines: Ecological Grief, Loss, Trauma, Hope and Protection

2023 | Journal of Loss and Trauma
John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta

A letter published recently discussed the lack of attention to ecological grief, how Filipino youth are vulnerable such kind of grief, and proposed relevant ways…


Business Responsibility Towards the Environment and Human Rights in Syria

2023 | Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and Syrian Legal Development Programme

Over a decade of war has ravaged Syria, leaving behind a fractured nation and crumbling infrastructure. While the humanitarian crisis dominates headlines, another threat simmers…


Mitigating Risks of Environmental Impacts on Gaza - Review of Precautions & Solutions Post (2023 War)

2023 | International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology
Khawla Al-Muhannadi and Mohamed Buheji

The latest war on Gaza that started after 7th of October 2023, has increased the risks of the environmental impact on the people's quality of…


Gendered Violence Martying Filipina Environmental Defenders

2023 | Extractive Industries and Society
Dalena Tran

This article contributes to discussions of extractive violence by exploring how gender influences violent circumstances under which women were assassinated during environmental conflicts. Partnership with…


Conflict, COVID-19 Pandemic, and Food Security: Evidence from Iraq

2023 | Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
Kwadena Krah

Over 400 million undernourished people globally reside in countries with violence, conflict, and fragility (FAO, 2017; George et al. 2020). While the relationship between conflict…


The Impact of Violent Conflict on Food Supply Chains: The Case of Nigerian Maize Traders

2023 | Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
Carolina M. Vargas, Thomas Reardon, and Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie

This paper examines patterns of violent shocks and insecurity on maize traders in Nigeria. Violence has become more common in Nigeria in the past 10-15…


Implementation of Community-Based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Conflict Affected Regions: A Case of South Kordofan, Sudan

2023 | Archives of Public Health
Quraish Sserwanja, Osman Omer Adam, Eissa Hassan Mohamed, Mohammed Bashir Adam, and Linet M. Mutisya

Malnutrition is the major cause of mortality and morbidity globally with undernutrition contributing about 45% of all deaths of under five children. Besides the direct…


Crop Diversification Increased Household Welfare in Afghanistan (2011- 2017)

2023 | Research Gate
Hayatullah Ahmadzai and Oliver Morrissey

Crop diversification is a farm level strategy to increase income, improve food security, and mitigate risks attributable to shocks. We use three-waves (2011-12 to 2016-17)…


Navigating Public Health in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Charting a Path Forward

2023 | Health and Human Rights Journal
William C. Lieber, Faraan O. Rahim, Bhav Jain, Devesh Shah, and Mohammad Z. Sahloul

In the wake of the devastating attack by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, which resulted in over 1,200 Israeli deaths and the capture…


Protecting the Environment in Armed Conflict

2023 | International Review of the Red Cross
Bruno Demeyere, Jillian Rafferty, Begümhan Idikut Simsir, and Lea Redae

Established in 1869, the International Review of the Red Cross is a peer-reviewed journal published by the ICRC and Cambridge University Press. Its aim is…


The Role of the Science-Policy Panel in Addressing the Health and Ecological Impact of Conflict Pollution and the Toxic Remnants of War

2023 | Conflict and Environment Observatory
Conflict and Environment Observatory

Our organisations welcomed UNEA-5’s adoption of resolution 5/8 in March 2022, and the decision to establish a Science-Policy Panel to contribute further to the sound…


Exploring the Worldwide Impact of COVID-19 on Conflict Risk under Climate Change

2023 | Heliyon
Xiaolan Xie, Mengmeng Hao, Fangyu Ding, Tobias Ide, David Helman, Jürgen Scheffran, Qian Wang, Yushu Qian, Shuai Chen, Jiajie Wu, Tian Ma, Quansheng Ge, and Dong Jiang

As the biggest threats facing mankind, COVID-19 and conflict risk severely affected human livelihood and economic development. Exploring the effects of COVID-19 on conflict risk…


Climate-Induced Stressors to Peace: A Review of Recent Literature

2021 | Environmental Research Letters
Ayyoob Sharifi, Dahlia Simangan, Chui Ying Lee, Sheryl Rose Reyes, Tarek Katramiz, Jairus Carmela Josol, Leticia Dos Muchangos, Hassan Virji, Shinji Kaneko, and Thea Kersti Tandog

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a threat to global peace and security. This paper intends to provide a better understanding of the nature of…


An Examination of the Child's Right to Survival and Development in Nigeria – The Boko Haram Insurgency in Context

2023 | Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies
Anwuli Irene Ofuani-Sokolo and Hadiza Omoyemhe Okunrobo

Article 6(2) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child places an obligation on countries to ensure the survival and development of the child.…


Hydro-Heritage for Healing? Examining the Gendered Experience of Water in Post-Conflict Swat, Pakistan

2023 | Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Daanish Mustafa, Muhammad Salman Khan, Helmut De Nardi, James Caron, Arab Naz, Mohsin Ullah, and Aneela Gul

Water has been formulated as a resource or a hazard within water resources geography. The authors propose that reframing of water as hydro-heritage opens up…


The Effect of Violent Conflict on Calorie Consumption and Dietary Quality in Iraq

2023 | Journal of Agricultural Economics
Marta Parigi

By combining 2012 Living Standard Measurement Survey cross-sectional survey responses and georeferenced conflict data, this study quantifies the effect of violent conflict on food security…


Resource Nationalism and the Violation of Indigenous Rights in Mexico's Oil Industry: The Case of a Chontal Community in Tabasco

2021 | Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime
Marcela Torres-Wong

For decades, Indigenous communities living in Mexico’s oil-producing state of Tabasco suffered violence, environmental contamination, and the destruction of their traditional livelihood. The administration of…


Environmental Dimensions of Conflict and Paralyzed Responses: The Ongoing Case of Ukraine and Future Implications for Urban Warfare

2022 | Small Wars & Insurgencies
Kristina Hook and Richard Marcantonio

Unique within the recent history of environmental hazards, eastern Ukraine illustrates the dangers arising from conflict in an urban landscape heavily modified by human action…


Environmental and Psychological Effects of Russian War in Ukraine

2023 | Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources
Olena Khrushch, Viktor Moskalets, Oksana Fedyk, Yuliya Karpiuk, Myroslava Hasiuk, Nataliia Ivantsev, Liudmyla Ivantsev, and Hasrat Arjjumend

Russia invasion on Ukraine has extensive and unprecedented negative impacts on natural environment and human life. Since saving human lives and protecting nuclear establishments are…


Climate, Peace and Security Study: Somali Region, Ethiopia

2023 | adelphi
Lucas Destrijcker, Milen Yishak, Michael Thomson, Aminata Traore, Yishuang, Antonio Xu, and Hannah Kurnoth

As part of the Weathering Risk initiative, adelphi and the World Food Programme (WFP) set up a learning facility to explore entry points for strengthening…