Renewable Resources
Conflict and Flooding Are Driving Deteriorating Acute Food Insecurity
2025
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Famine Early Warning System Network
This Key Message Update provides a high-level analysis of current acute food insecurity conditions and any changes to FEWS NET's latest projection of acute food…
Revisiting the Environmental Legacies of the Vietnam War
2025
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Current History
Pamela McElwee
The 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War provides an opportunity to reflect on the conflict’s enduring scars, from severe ecological damages to…
When Bombs Turn the Taps Off: The Impact of Conflict on Water Infrastructure in Lebanon
2025
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Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight, and Oxfam
Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight and Oxfam have worked collectively to document the impact of the escalation of conflict in Lebanon on water infrastructure since…
Water Sovereignty as a Pathway to Food and Energy Security in Afghanistan
2025
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Discover Sustainability
Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah and Karim-Aly Kassam
Afghanistan possesses abundant water resources, renewable energy potential, and fertile arable lands to be a viable pluralistic nation in the twenty-first century. Stewardship of water…
The Fourth Year of the Opium Ban: An Update from Two of Afghanistan’s Major Poppy-Growing Areas
2025
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Afghanistan Analyst Network
Fabrizio Foschini and Jelena Bjelica
The Islamic Emirate’s ban on opium cultivation has entered its fourth year and apart from the first harvest of opium poppies in spring 2022, when…
The Bakhshabad Dam in Afghanistan and its Impacts on the Hamoun Wetlands
2025
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IESS
Sayedeh Zahra Qureshi
Humans' strong desire for development and their efforts to control and harness common resources with the aim of gaining power and securing political interests, as…
Pathways to Instability: A Synthetic Framework to Parse Connections between Water and Conflict
2025
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Environment and Security
Penny Beames, Kate Brauman, Patrick Keys, Melissa McCracken, Penelope Mitchell, Sarah Rosengaertner, Susanne Schmeier, Aaron Wolf, and Michael Gremillion
While water has long been an object and mechanism of conflict, predicting water conflict remains a challenge. Little evidence supports strong, direct causal, or statistical…
Ecocide’s Evolving Relationship with War
2025
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Environment and Security
Racheal Killean
This article examines the evolving relationship between ecocide and the regulation of war, tracing its conceptual development from a war crime to a broader environmental…
River Conflicts and Hydrological Dominance
2025
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Environment and Security
Christina Boyes and Katherine Lynch-Dombroski
How do the direction of river flow and the dynamics of power within a river basin affect international conflict and cooperation? Studies of border disputes…
The Effectiveness of Joint Basin Institutions in Managing International Water Disputes
2025
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Environment and Security
Neda Zawahri, Susanne Schmeier, and Melissa McCracken
While cooperative interaction so far outnumbers conflictive ones between states sharing transboundary water resources, the trend of interstate disputes is on the rise due to…
The Many Voices of Environmental Cooperation: A Relational Analysis of 30 Years of Environmental Peacebuilding over Shared Waters in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine
2025
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Environment and Security
Laura E. R. Peters, Ken Conca, Aaron T. Wolf, Ari Lippi, and Jamon Van Den Hoek
Environmental cooperation is theorized to contribute to peacebuilding, but the complexity of how this linkage is realized for the people involved remains out of view.…
Murky Waters of War: Toward a Clearer Conceptualization of Water as a Weapon
2025
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Environment and Security
Charlotte Grech-Madin
Water has long presented a potent means to harm and influence others in war. All states, and many non-state actors, possess water supply and/or storage…
The Linkages between Water Security, Conflict, Participation, and Governance in Smallholder Irrigation Schemes in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling Approach
2025
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Frontiers
Lerato Phali, Denver Naidoo, and Maxwell Mudhara
The increasing competition for water resources leads to conflict, as utility-maximizing farmers aim to improve their productivity to enhance food security and economic well-being. Conflicts…
Climate Shocks, Household Food Security and Welfare in Afghanistan
2025
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Food Policy
Hayatullah Ahmadzai and Oliver Morrissey
Exposure to natural disasters in Afghanistan, notably flooding and other shocks exacerbated by climate change, poses a growing concern given the vulnerability of households to…
EcoPeace Middle East Desk Study of the Geo-political, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility of a Middle East - Europe Renewable Energy Corridor
2025
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Qamar Energy and EcoPeace Middle East
Clean energy is a crucial opportunity to foster sustainable development, economic reconstruction, and peace and reconciliation, between Israel, Palestine and the neighbouring countries of Jordan,…
The Famines in Gaza and Other Conflict Areas Are a Moral Failure
2025
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The Lancet
Saskia Osendarp, Lawrence Haddad, Cecilia Fabrizio, Caroline Andridge, Robert E. Black, Molly E. Brown, et al.
As scientists and members of the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium (ST4N) who have been Standing Together For Nutrition during recent crises, we use evidence…
A Multi-Level Spatial Assessment Framework for Identifying Land Use Conflict Zones
2025
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Land Use Policy
Danyang Wang, Mingshu Wang, Wei Zheng, Yaya Song, and Xianjin Huang
Land use conflicts (LUCs) are pivotal in understanding the complex interactions between human activities and global changes. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to analyze…
How the Ongoing Armed Conflict between Russia and Ukraine Can Affect the Global Wheat Food Security?
2025
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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb and Velu Govindan
This study examines the potential impacts of Russia-Ukraine armed conflict on the consumption and trade of wheat and wheat food security. Russia and Ukraine jointly…
The Thirst for Power: Overcoming the Politics of Water in the Middle East
2025
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Center for Strategic and International Studies
Natasha Hall, Robin Savage, Hassan Janabi, Neda Zawahri, and Ciarán Ó Cuinn
The Middle East has battled water insecurity for centuries, but today, the region is on a razor’s edge. Climate change and overuse have threatened water…
Abeer Butmeh - Second Annual Conference on Conflict and Climate Change in MENA [Video]
2024
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Arab Reform Initiative and Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network- Friends of Earth Palestine
Meet Abeer Butmeh, a distinguished water and environmental engineer who serves as the coordinator for PENGON-FoE Palestine. Renowned as a leading activist for environmental justice…
IOM Somalia's Environmental Peacebuilding Programme 2025 [Video]
2025
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IOM Somalia Mission
Widespread environmental damage in Somalia heightens competition for dwindling resources, intensifies existing conflicts and can lead to new ones. IOM Somalia's Environmental Peacebuilding programme focuses…
Disciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Environmental Science and International Relations
2025
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Anthropogenic Solutions for Climate Change
Olivier Serrat
By integrating environmental considerations into peacebuilding initiatives, we can create lasting solutions that address recurring root causes of conflict, such as competition over natural resources,…
Blueprint for an Agricultural Recovery Plan for Ukraine
2025
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Center for Strategic and International Studies
Antonina Broyaka, Vitalii Dankevych, Emma Dodd, and Caitlin Welsh
Given the critical role agriculture plays in Ukraine’s national economy, a number of strategic reconstruction plans have put forth various policy frameworks to rebuild the…
Green Flashpoints: How the Surge In Renewable Energy May Spark a New Era of Global Conflict – Analysis
2025
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Eurasia Review
Syed Raiyan Amir
As the world races to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, a new energy order is beginning to emerge—one that promises cleaner air and…
Saving the World with Organic Agriculture: Environmental Peacebuilding in the Nascent Democracy of Myanmar
2025
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University of New England
Johanna Garnett, Marty Branagan, and Rebecca Spence
In Myanmar, a history of structural and ecological violence has resulted in environmental degradation, loss of livelihoods and food insecurity for agrarian populations. This is…
Transboundary Water Rights and Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflict Prevention through Functional Transboundary River Basin Institution-Building in the Southern African Development Community Region
2025
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Frontiers in Water
Dumsani Mndzebele
Many scholars of conflict and hydropolitics argue that not all cooperation is good, and neither is all conflict bad. Hydro-diplomacy scholarship also presents these two…
Promoting Peace and Climate Resilience in the Post-Conflict Mindanao Region of the Philippines
2025
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CGIAR
Grazia Pacillo, Adam Savelli, and Leonardo Medina Santa Cruz
Researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT launched a first-ever community of practice on climate security and environmental peacebuilding and collaborated to identify…
Restoring Dignity by Granting Rights: IHL and Peacebuilding Empowerment for Magdalena River Fishing Communities in Colombia
2025
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International Review of the Red Cross
Lucas Martinez-Villalba
This article examines the role of international humanitarian law (IHL) in safeguarding artisanal fishing communities residing along the banks of the Magdalena River in Colombia…
Protecting Water in Conflict [Video]
2025
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Center for Strategic & International Studies
David Michel
Armed conflict is rising worldwide. The ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine exemplify the toll that modern warfare can take on vital water systems and…
Bridging Gaps in Water Governance: Addressing Conflict and Climate Challenges
2025
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Peace Research Institute Oslo
Stefan Döring
Despite frequent warnings of ‘water wars’, conflicts over water rarely escalate into violence. While most disputes over water access, quantity, or infrastructure remain non-violent, the…