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Sudan’s Internal Hesitance over the GERD: Policy, Polarization, and National Strategy

2026 | Water International
Filippo Verre, Ronny Berndtsson, and Hossein Hashemi

The GERD has been a focal point of hydropolitical tensions in the Nile River Basin, primarily involving Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt. This article examines Sudan’s…

From Slow Violence to Ecological Crisis and Hard Violence: The Impacts of Climate Change and Hydropower Development in the Mekong River Basin on Tonle Sap Lake

2026 | Water International
Mak Sithirith

Hydropower and climate change have made impacts on ecosystems and communities dependent on the Mekong River. Some studies present these impacts as slow violence or…

How Can Climate Change Help Us Build a More Peaceful World? [Video]

2026 | TEDxMidAtlantic
Florian Krampe

A cracked riverbed, a drought, people on the move — and the headline writes itself: climate change breeds war. Florian Krampe has spent his career…

Environmental Peacebuilding in Difficult Contexts: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conditions for Communal Cooperation in Somalia

2026 | Journal of Peace Research
Osman M. Jama, Tobias Ide, Oliver Fritsch, and Paul Taucher

This article examines the conditions under which local environmental peacebuilding emerges and is sustained in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, with a focus on intercommunal water…

Somalia: Poor Rains and Rising Costs Drive Urgent Food and Nutrition Needs, with Risk of Famine in One Area

2026 | Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

Six million people in Somalia - 31 percent of the analysed population - are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between…

Can Afghanistan Feed Itself? Agriculture, Trade and Food Security under Pressure

2026 | Afghanistan Analysts Network
Mhd Assem Mayar

Afghanistan’s food system is under growing strain. Domestic harvests remain insufficient and uneven and trade routes have shifted repeatedly in recent years. This spring’s rainfall…

Ecological Statecraft in the Midst of War: Water, Regeneration, and the Future of Gulf Security

2026 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Olivia Lazard and Ali Bin Shahid

The 2026 US-Iran war is radiating through the Gulf’s energy systems, maritime routes, supply chains, food corridors, financial flows, and regional diplomacy—and its effects will…

Recommendations for Strengthening Water Security, Peace, and Gender Inclusion Ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference

2026 | Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Melanne Verveer, Shaima Gargash, Antti Rautavaar, Nelson Gomonda, Nompumelelo Ntshalintshali-Motsa, Foman Forough, Elizabeth A. Koch, and Tamara Bah

This policy paper summarizes key insights and recommendations for strengthening water security through a Women, Peace and Security (WPS) lens ahead of the 2026 UN…

A Framework for Breaking the Food–Climate–Water–Conflict Nexus in Africa

2026 | Observer Research Foundation
Malancha Chakrabarty

Africa is in the middle of multiple, yet related, crises—conflicts, climate change, water stress, and food insecurity. The number of active state-based conflicts in Africa…

Global Report on Food Crises 2026

2026 | Global Network Against Food Crises

The 2026 edition of the Global Report on Food Crises is the 10th edition of the report. For 10 years the Global Network Against Food…

Water as a Weapon: Israel’s Destruction and Deprivation of Water and Sanitation in Gaza

2026 | Médecins Sans Frontières

Israeli authorities have used access to water as a weapon against Palestinians, systematically depriving people in Gaza, Palestine, of water in a campaign of collective…

Water-Energy-Food Nexus Assessment in the Transboundary Harirud River Basin Using the MUSIASEM Framework

2026 | Scientific Reports
Ensie Talaei, Majid Delavar, Yeganeh S. Salehi, Mohammad R. Eini, and Roohollah Noori

Water, food, and energy systems are highly interconnected, and changes in one can have a direct impact on the others. In transboundary basins, these interactions…

Looking the Other Way: What Happened to the Weaponization of Water

2026 | Water International
Eliška Pohnerová

Water and water infrastructure is granted legal protection under international law, making it eligible for normative safeguards. Yet, this normative expectation is challenged by records…

Sustainable Asset Valuation of the Recovery of the Bogotá River, Colombia

2026 | International Institute for Sustainable Development
Andrea M. Bassi and Nathalia Niño

This Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) examines how nature-based infrastructure (NBI) interventions like wetland restoration and flood control transformed the Bogotá River basin. The results show…

The World Agreed to Stop Using Food as a Weapon. It Hasn’t.

2026 | Council on Foreign Relations

Food has increasingly become a deliberate tool of war. Whether in besieged farming communities in Sudan or in the destruction of grain siloes in Ukraine,…

What It Takes to Eat: Conflict and Sudan’s Fragile Food System

2026 | CARE International
Nana Ndeda, Azzaa Ahmed Abdel Aziz, and Sara Karrar

In several areas of Sudan, each meal eaten by a family is made up of ingredients that have crossed one or more battlefields. In fact,…

Sustainable Asset Valuation of Mining Closures in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mines in Marmato, Colombia

2026 | International Institute for Sustainable Development
Nathalia Niño and Andrea Bassi

This Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) examines how nature-based infrastructure (NBI) interventions like reforestation, slope stabilization, and hydrological restoration can strengthen mine closure plans in Marmato,…

Teaching Materials: Water Diplomacy – Turning Rivers into Bridges

2026 | Stockholm International Water Institute
Martina Klimes

These teaching materials support the webinar Turning rivers into bridges, part of the WaterWise programme by Schools Beyond Regions and Borders (SBRB). They provide a…

The US-Israel War on Iran and How War and Conflict Are Destroying the Environment

2026 | GreenPeace
Mehdi Leman

From Ukraine to Sudan, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Venezuela, people are living through war, bombardment, occupation, militarisation or political violence, while the damage reaches far…

Armed Conflicts and Their Environmental Impacts: Toward a Global Legal Framework for Promoting Environmental Sustainability

2026 | Asian Journal of Water, Environment, and Pollution
Mohammad Alsalmi, Omar Alatawil Doaa Badran, Mahmoud Abdelhady, Naser Alsherman, and Ehab Alrousan

In an era marked by intensifying armed conflicts, the protection of ecosystems and natural resources has become an urgent global imperative. This study aims to…

Confluence Beyond Borders in a Changing Climate: Dialogue for Cooperation in Central Asia and Afghanistan

2026 | Stockholm International Water Institute
Martina Klimes

This report examines the growing risks to water security in Central Asia and Afghanistan as climate change accelerates glacial melt, alters river flows, and increases…

Regional Policy Coherence for the Great Green Wall Initiative: Restoring Land and Sustaining Peace: The Great Green Wall and the Climate–Peace–Security Nexus in Africa

2026 | Africa Union

Climate change poses an escalating threat to Africa’s development, peace, and security. Despite contributing minimally to global emissions, the continent faces disproportionate loss and damage…