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An Overview of the African Peacebuilding Network's Contribution to African Peacebuilding Literature

2023 | African Peacebuilding Network
Godwin Onuoha

This working paper surveys, documents, and analyzes the contributions of APN scholars to the knowledge and practice of peacebuilding in Africa against the background of…

The Regulation of Crimes against Water in Armed Conflicts and Other Situations of Violence

2023 | International Review of the Red Cross
Mara Tignino

Water is the lifeblood of human beings and society, but threats to water, such as the pollution of rivers, cyber crimes, and attacks against water…

Green Talks: The Voice of Ecology and Environment [Audio]

2022 | Paradigma
Sezen Kaya-Sönmez and Rita Floyd

In the first episode of the new series, called the "Green Talks: The Voice of Ecology and Environment", with Sezen Kaya-Sönmez from Kadir Has University,…

Climate Security Study: Kenya

2023 | adelphi and World Food Programme
Emma Whitaker, Lucas Destrijcker, Johanna Caitlin Dieffenbacher, and Hannah Elisabeth Kurnoth

Kenya ́s topography and environment are diverse, with Arid and Semi-Arid lands (ASALs) occupying over 80 per cent of the land area, creating unique challenges…

The Multiple Impacts of War

2023 | Nature Sustainability

In March this year, the World Bank, the Government of Ukraine, the European Union and the United Nations published a report — Ukraine Rapid Damage…

Collective Violence against Health Workers in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2023 | Nursing Reports
Davina Jacobi, Tobias Ide

Concerns about violence against nurses and other medical personnel have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as of yet, limited systematic knowledge of such violence…

Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts

2023 | MIT Press
Tobias Ide

A ground-breaking study on how natural disasters can escalate or defuse wars, insurgencies, and other strife.

Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty-first century.…

The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Sri Lanka

2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Simone Bunse and Vongai Murugani

The World Food Programme (WFP) has supported food security and nutrition in Sri Lanka since 1968. Based on research conducted in the Monaragala district in…

Access to Health Services, Food, and Water During an Active Conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia

2022 | PLOS Global Public Health
Kibrom A. Abay, Mehari Hiluf Abay, Guush Berhane, Jordan Chamberlin, Kevin Croke, and Kibrom Tafere2

Civil conflict began in Ethiopia in November 2020 and has reportedly caused major disruptions in access to health services, food, and related critical services, in…

Global Report on Food Crises 2023

2023 | Food Security Information Network

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) for 2023 highlights that the number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food and livelihood…

Five Urgent Questions on Ecological Security

2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Dan Smith and Rod Schoonover

The increasing pressure of ecological disruption on people and on security means that ideas and policy on peace and security must increasingly address the need…

COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A Food System Disruption Analysis

2023 | Global Food Security
Jonathan Lara-Arévalo, Lucía Escobar-Burgos, E.R.H. Moore, Roni Neff, and Marie L. Spiker

In Honduras, as in many settings between 2020 and 2022, food security was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and conflicts—what some refer to…

Renewing Global Climate Change Action for Fragile and Developing Countries

2022 | Global Economy and Development at Brookings
Landry Signé and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

The acceleration of climate change is recognized to have negative impacts on development and security. The impacts can vary significantly depending on the sector, location, and…

Unequal Access to Improved Water and Sanitation in a Post-Conflict Context of Liberia: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey

2023 | PLOS Water
Daniel Amoak, Gabrielle Bruser, Roger Antabe, Yujiro Sano, and Isaac Luignaah

Public health and wellbeing in Liberia have been compromised by a lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), compounded by 14…

Afghanistan Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023

2023 | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with a very real risk of systemic collapse and human catastrophe. In addition to unimaginable human costs, this…

The Coastal and Marine Environment (Ukraine Conflict Environmental Briefing No. 5)

2023 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

A wide range of land and marine-based military activities are placing Ukraine’s marine ecosystems at risk, while fragile and ecologically sensitive coastal habitats have been…

Food Insecurity in Africa: Drivers and Solutions

2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Caroline Delgado, Kristina Tschunkert, and Dan Smith

Global food insecurity is rapidly increasing. In 2021 an estimated 29.3 per cent of the global population (2.3 billion people) was moderately or severely food…

Peace and the Environment at the Crossroads: Elections in a Conflict-Troubled Biodiversity Hotspot

2022 | Environmental Science & Policy
Alejandro Salazar, Adriana Sanchez, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Juan F. Salazar, Nicola Clerici, Eloisa Lasso, Santiago J. Sanchez-Pacheo, Angela M. Rendon, Juan C. Villegas, Carlos A. Sierra, German Poveda, Benjamin Quesada, Maria R. Uribe, Susana Rodriguez-Buriti

In democracies around the world, societies have demonstrated that elections can have major consequences for the environment. In Colombia, the 2022 presidential elections will take…

Military Capabilities Affected by Climate Change. An Analysis of China, Russia and the United States

2023 | Clingendael Magazine
Adája Stoetman, Dick Zandee, Niels Drost, and Louise van Schaik

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of the present and the future. Rising temperatures and sea levels, as well as extreme weather…

Livelihoods, Conflict and Mediation: Somalia

2022 | SPARC (Supporting Pastorialism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
Sarah Opitz-Stapleton, Leigh Mayhew, Ibifuro Joy Alasia, Ibrahim Ali Dagane, Isaac Mbeche, Muzzamil Abdi Sheik, Samaha Yusuf Nor, Abdiaziz Mohamed Harir, Abdirahman Said Hassan, and Obioma Egemonye

This report is the second in a series highlighting learning emerging from a longitudinal study examining violent and non-violent conflict and mediation dynamics in Somalia and Nigeria.…

A Global Analysis of Interactions between Peace and Environmental Sustainability

2022 | Earth System Governance
Dahlia Simangan, Chui Ying Lee, Ayyoob Sharifi, John L. Candelaria, and Shinji Kaneko

The aim of this study is to identify which components of peace are most associated with environmental sustainability. Drawing on the Global Peace Index, Positive Peace…

Toxic Diplomacy through Environmental Management: A Necessary Next Step for Environmental Peacebuilding

2022 | World Development Perspectives
Richard A. Marcantonio

The field of environmental peacebuilding (EP) addresses many of the critical issues related to negative human outcomes from environmental change, especially violent conflict. However, the…

The Role of Working-Class Communities and the Slow Violence of Toxic Pollution in Environmental Health Conflicts: A Global Perspective

2022 | Global Environmental Change
Grettel Navas, Giacomo D'Alisa, and Joan Martinez-Alier

Analysing a sample of 3,033 environmental conflicts around the globe, we compared conflicts reporting no human health impacts to those reporting health impacts linked to…