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Kabul's Water Crisis: An Inflection Point for Action
2025
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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…
United Nations Bureaucracies and Knowledge Creation on Women, Peacebuilding, and Natural Resources (chapter in "Handbook on Gender and Security")
2025
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Handbook on Gender and Security
Natalia Dalmer
This chapter examines the concerted efforts of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women…
Identifying Peace Pathways: How Can Forest Conservation Contribute to Environmental Peacebuilding?
2025
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Climate and Development
Rowan Alumasa Alusiola, Rebecca Froese, Janpeter Schilling, and Paul Klär
A growing body of literature is analyzing the conflict implications of forest conservation measures, yet, aside from individual case studies, the potential of these programs…
Water Security in the Polycrisis: Between Negative and Positive Tipping Points
2025
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Frontiers
Jurgen Scheffran
Water security is facing multiple stressors in the emerging polycrisis of the Anthropocene, with a great acceleration challenging planetary boundaries and human livelihoods. In a…
Editorial: Climate Change, Natural Resources, and Human Security in Governance and Society: Vulnerabilites and Adaptation Strategies
2025
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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…
Conflict in a Warming World: How Climate Shocks Impact Rebel Demands and Peace Agreement Outcomes
2025
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PeaceRep, University of Edinburgh, and University of St Andrews
Elisa D’Amico
As climate change becomes more severe and its effects more frequently observed, its impact on global conflict is increasingly important. Climate shocks, acting as threat…
Climate Change Will Exacerbate Land Conflict between Agriculture and Timber Production
2024
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Nature Climate Change
Christopher G. Bousfield, Oscar Morton, and David P. Edwards
Timber and agricultural production must both increase throughout this century to meet rising demand. Understanding how climate-induced shifts in agricultural suitability will trigger competition with…
Climate and Conflict-induced Child Nutrition Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
2024
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Conflict and Health
Oche Joseph Otorkpa, Abdirizak Mohamud Yusuf, and Abdullahi Tunde Aborode
This commentary explores the intersection between climate, conflict, and child nutrition, highlighting the severe child nutrition crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa exacerbated by climate change and…
Climate Change as a Double-Edged Sword: Exploring the Potential of Environmental Recovery to Foster Stability in Darfur, Sudan
2025
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Climate
Abdalrahman Ahmed, Brian Rotich, and Kornel Czimber
The Darfur conflict, which emerged in the early 21st century, represents a multifaceted crisis driven by socio-political and environmental factors, with resource scarcity, exacerbated by…
15 Key Takeaways from a Decade of Climate Security Reporting
2025
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Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Peter Schwartzstein
For nearly two decades, the connections between climate change and security have been debated and discussed in a diverse array of fora—from universities, think tanks,…
Climate Change and Peacebuilding: Sub-Themes of an Emerging Research Agenda
2024
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International Affairs
Florian Krampe, Dylan O'Driscoll, McKenzie Johnson, Dahlia Simangan, Farah Hegazi, and Cedric de Coning
Climate change is having profound effects on global security and peacebuilding efforts. While existing research has mainly focused on the link between climate change and…
Missing the Target: Examining the Causes of the Conflict on the Afghanistan-Iran Border in May 2023
2025
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ALCIS
David Mansfield
This policy brief shares key findings and implications for policy from a forthcoming XCEPT study on the escalation in violence along the Afghanistan-Iran border on…
The Politics of Eco-Violence: Why Is Conflict Escalating in Nigeria’s Middle Belt?
2022
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Terrorism and Political Violence
Ezenwa E. Olumba
In Nigeria’s Middle Belt, competition for land and other resources has intensified between nomadic Fulani herders and sedentary farmers. What were initially sporadic conflicts over…
The Environmental Costs of the War in Sudan
2025
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
The ongoing conflict in Sudan has profoundly impacted its environment but these consequences have received little attention. CEOBS has been monitoring the conflict’s environmental dimensions…
Is Food Security National Security? [Audio]
2025
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Center for Strategic and International Studies
Caitlin Welsh
US government investments in global food security have traditionally received strong bipartisan support from policymakers, either explicitly or implicitly, on moral, economic, and national security…
Analyzing the Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on Deforestation in Somalia: Evidence from an ARDL Model
2025
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Cogent Economics & Finance
Mohamud Hussein Mohamud, Fatima Salah Abdirahman, and Atta Gul
Somalia, a country challenged by ongoing conflict and economic instability, faces significant environmental degradation, particularly deforestation. This study investigates the effects of key macroeconomic variables,…
The Role of Food Security Projects in Enhancing Climate Adaptation among Yemeni Women
2025
Rehab Al-Sanabani and Saleh Huomid
This study explores the impact of climate change on food security among women in Yemen, focusing on the governorates of Dhamar, Hadhramout, and Abyan. Using…
Challenges to the Bedouin Traditional Natural Resources Management Systems: The Case of the Bedouin Hadandawa’s of Eastern Sudan
2025
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Sociological Demography Press
Omer A. Hayati, Samir M. Ali Alredaisy, Mohammed Abu Elhassan Elgasim, and Mohamed Elnour Yassen
This research investigates the customary natural resource management system of the Bedouin Hadandawa in Eastern Sudan and identifies the problems it encounters in comparison to…
From Conflict to a Climate Future: Unraveling the Nexus between Warfare and Environmental Degradation
2025
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Sustainable Futures
Musrat Nazir, Imran Khan, Syed Afzal Moshadi Shah, Talat Islam, Kamran Azam, Imran Naseem, and Khalid Zaman
The natural environment in conflict zones is often severely impacted by warfare, with long-lasting effects on water resources and ecosystems. The ongoing conflict between Ukraine…
Sustainability amid Conflict: Gaza's Environmental, Social, and Economic Struggles
2025
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Journal of Environmental Management
Abdo Hassoun
The recent war on Gaza (October 2023–January 2025) has led to profound environmental degradation, social instability, and economic collapse, posing substantial obstacles to sustainable development.…
Pastoral Conflict on the Greener Grass? Exploring the Climate-Conflict Nexus in the Karamoja Cluster
2025
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Rebecca Navarro, Lamis Saleh, and Evelyne Owino
This paper showcases a mixed-methods approach combining informant interviews to highlight the importance of local policies in the debate on the climate-conflict nexus, along with…
Solar Power and Environmental Peacebuilding in South-Central Somalia
2025
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Ann-Sophie Bohle and Khiera Tarif
In Somalia, widespread energy poverty and a heavy reliance on conventional energy sources are deeply linked to ongoing conflict dynamics. Dependence on firewood and charcoal…
Water as a Driver of Conflict [Audio]
2025
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Center for Strategic and International Studies
David Michel
Blessed by several major rivers and ample rainfall, Myanmar holds vast hydropower potential. But many key hydropower sites are claimed by ethnic separatist groups in…
Are Wolves the Real Problem? Challenges Faced by Livestock Farmers Living Alongside Wolves in Northwestern Greece
2025
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Sustainability
Maria Petridou and Vassiliki Kati
Mitigating human–wolf conflict is crucial, yet conventional approaches often overlook the broader socioeconomic challenges faced by farming communities. Wolves frequently become scapegoats for deeper rooted…
Factors Affecting Transboundary Water Disputes: Nile, Indus, and Euphrates–Tigris River Basins
2025
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Water
Mujib Ahmad Azizi and Jorge Leandro
Transboundary water disputes arise as nations compete over shared water resources, exacerbated by climate change, socio-economic inequalities, and geopolitical tensions. These disputes, prominent in river…
Governing after FARC: Environmental Peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia
2025
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Peasant Studies
Mckenzie F. Johnson, Luz A. Rodriguez, and Manuela Quijano Hoyos
We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by…
Hidden Depths — Introduction: Water Conflict and Cooperation [Video]
2025
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Center for Strategic and International Studies
Doug Weir, Iryna Babanina, and Peter Gleick
In June 2023, Russian troops deliberately destroyed the Kakhovka dam in southeast Ukraine, highlighting an alarming trend: Water resources are facing increasing pressure from armed…
Timber, Sanctions, and Conflict: Myanmar's Forest Sector Since the Coup
2025
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Forest Trends
Within a few months of the February 2021 coup d’état against the newly re-elected Union Government of Myanmar (UGoM), the United States, United Kingdom, European…
Pastoralism and Women’s Role in Food Security in the Ethiopian Somali Region
2025
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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Francesco Zecca and Saima Saima
Pastoralism has a significant role in food security for ages particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where elevated levels of food insecurity persist. The main aim of…
The Bad Samaritan: Land Grabbing by Settlers through Grazing
2025
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Peace Now
Kerem Navot
Kerem Navot and Peace Now have published a joint report revealing how a small group of violent settlers, with support from the Israeli government, have…