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Determinants of Conflicts in Local Water Governance and Implications for Peacebuilding in Water Development

2023 | Peace and Conflict Studies Journal
Resty Naiga

Recent years have witnessed an increasing focus on water as a source of explicit and implicit conflicts. Water-related conflicts are partly attributed to water mismanagement…

Conflict Analysis for Water Diplomacy: Why, What, How?

2023 | Finnish Environment Institute
Katariina Mustasilta and Emma Hakala

Water diplomacy aims at preventing, mitigating, and resolving tensions related to shared water resources by combining the means of diplomacy and water expertise. As an…

Dynamics of Drivers of Conflict in Water-Related Resource Scarcity: Focus on Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya

2023 | Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
David Njagi Ngonge, Kariuki Muigua, and Elvin Nyukuri

Lake Turkana basin, located in Turkana County of Kenya, has become a central point for studying the dynamics of conflicts resulting from water-related resource scarcity.…

The Interplay among Conflict, Water Scarcity, and Cholera in Northern Nigeria

2023 | Public Health Challenges
Bashar Haruna Gulumbe, Zaharadeen Muhammad Yusuf, Abdullahi Adamu Faggo, Tajudeen O. Yahaya, and Sahabi Sule Manga

Cholera is a recurring issue in Nigeria, with outbreaks predominantly affecting the Northern states. In 2021, Nigeria experienced its most significant cholera epidemic in a…

Climate Security

2025 | Sage
Ashok Swain

How does the climate crisis relate to global security issues? What impact do increasing temperatures, droughts, sea level rises and extreme weather have on borders,…

State of the Pacific 2024 -- Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]

2024 | Australia National University
Anouk Ride

Environmental conflicts are experienced in many parts of the Pacific islands, particularly in situations involving indigenous peoples and land use agreements. This panel draws on…

From Crisis to Conflict: Climate Change and Violent Extremism in the Sahel

2024 | Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Kitty Mant, Jaynisha Patel, and Sandun Munasingshe

The central Sahel region is a stark testament to the devastating effects of climate change. The region is now in a sustained emergency. The consequences…

Climate and Water-Related Vulnerabilities in Refugee Hosting Communities in Northern Jordan: Irbid and Ramtha Municipalities

2024 | International Water Management Institute

Jordan is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world and hosts the second-highest share of refugees per capita in the world. A fast-increasing…

Navigating Policy Coherence for Peacebuilding and Environmental Sustainability in Colombia

2024 | CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies
Karoll Valentina Yomayuza, Alexander Buritica Casanova, and Daniela Salas Betancourt

How do we align policies to support both peacebuilding and environmental sustainability? This compelling question was at the heart of a recent webinar hosted by Alliance…

No Escape – On the Frontlines of Climate Change, Conflict and Forced Displacement

2024 | UN High Commissioner for Refugees

The impacts of climate change are also exacerbating drivers of displacement, both within and beyond national borders. Over the past 10 years, weather-related disasters have…

From COP28 to COP29 with Ukraine at the Front: Linking Climate, Security and Peace

2024 | Oxford University Faculty of Law
Ievgeniia Kopytsia

It is evident that concurrent crises faced by war-affected regions compound critical infrastructure damage, ecosystem degradation, and significant population displacement. The intersection of climate vulnerability…

Dead Water from Russia: Fish and Other Life Perish in the Polluted Waters of the Seim River

2024 | Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group

The Seim River flows through Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions and from there through Ukraine’s Sumy and Chernihiv regions. In August, a fish die-off was…

Household Level WASH & Protection Assessment in Gaza (October 2024)

2024 | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The Gaza Strip, particularly Khan Younis area, faces critical challenges in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Protection Services. Prolonged conflict, limited resources, and infrastructural…

Life at 50°C: Syria's Water Wars [Audio]

2024 | BBC

The autonomous north-east region of Syria, once regarded as one of the most fertile areas in the country, is today struggling to find enough water…

Charted: A Decade of Rising Water Conflicts (2010–2023)

2024 | Visual Capitalist

Some of humanity’s earliest wars were fought over water, one of the most essential resources for survival. Modern day water violence has now expanded in…

Climate, Peace and Security: Kenya

2024 | CGIAR Climate Security Observatory

Climate security explores whether climate change increases the risk of armed conflict and, if so, under which circumstances this relationship occurs. People in fragile and…

Thirst for Peace

2024 | PAX

Understanding how wars affect water security is key to developing robust policies and practical solutions to protect civilians and the environment they depend on. In…

States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security [Video]

2024 | UCLA
Joshua W. Busby

Under what circumstances might climate change lead to negative security outcomes? Over the past fifteen years, a rapidly growing applied field and research community on…

Transitioning to Clean and Sustainable Energies: What Opportunities for Peace? [Video]

2024 | United Nations System Staff College

Building on the outcomes of the experts’ roundtable on Climate, Peace and Security co-organized by the UNSSC, the University of Turin and King’s College London…

Environmental Security in War and Armed Conflict [Video]

2024 | UN Web TV

War against Ukraine caused large-scale environmental damage resulted in unprecedented pollution, disruption of ecosystems and physical destruction of biological species both on the territory of…

Hunger Hotspots: FAO/WFP Early Warnings on Acute Food Insecurity — November 2024 to May 2025 Outlook

2024 | Global Network Against Food Crises, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, and World Food Programme

According to the latest Hunger Hotspots report, GNAFC partners – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food…

Ecological Threat Report 2024

2024 | Institute for Economics & Peace

This is the fifth edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR), which analyses ecological threats in 207 countries and territories. Produced by the Institute for…

Commodities as Weapons: How Russia’s Natural Resources Are Fuelling Its Imperialistic Aggression against the West

2024 | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Sergey Sukhankin

Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 caused a series of economic and geopolitical shocks that have jolted the world’s economy and security. However,…

Water Poverty in Kabul: A Complex Legacy of War, Environmental Mismanagement, and Climate Change

2024 | Legal Service India
Qadriya Hashimi, Adela Stanikzai, Hasina Rassuli, Nasima Esa Zada, Bahara Kaihan, and Palwasha Muhammadi

When we turn on the television, scroll through social media, or read the latest headlines in the newspaper, one theme that consistently emerges in discussions…

Russia’s Ecocide in Ukraine: Environmental Destruction and the Need for Accountability [Video]

2024 | Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Kristina Hook, Eugene Z. Stakhiv, and Maryna Boydyuk

In the ten years since Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine, Ukraine estimates that Russia has inflicted some $60 billion in damages to…

Weathering Risk - Strengthening Peace and Resilience in a Changing Climate: Nine Global Trends and Opportunities. Synthesis Report

2024 | adelphi
Alexandra Steinkraus, Janani Vivekananda, Emma Whitaker, Mary Potts, and Nina Schmelzer

The Weathering Risk synthesis report identifies nine pressing global climate security trends and opportunities based on 43 case studies, assessments, mapping exercises and scenario-based analyses…