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Pastoralism and Women’s Role in Food Security in the Ethiopian Somali Region

2025 | 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 | 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…

Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa

2024 | START: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (University of Maryland)
Salma Bouziani, Steve S. Sin, Madeline Romm, and Louis M. Wasser

While the consequences of climate change and climate security issues have global ramifications, certain regions bear a disproportionate burden of extreme impacts due to geographical…

Colombia’s Long Road toward Peace: Implications for Environmental Human Rights Defenders

2024 | Ecology and Society
Torsten Krause, Fariborz Zelli, Ana Maria Vargas Falla, Juan A. Samper, and Britta Sjöstedt

Human rights defenders, social leaders, and environmental and indigenous activists fight for political, cultural, social, economic, and environmental rights and often face intimidation and violence…

“Everyone Decided to Declare War on the Forest”: Between Territorial Peace and Pacification in the Colombian Andean-Amazon

2024 | Ecology and Society
Juan Antonio Samper, Torsten Krause, and Jesica López

In post-peace agreement Colombia, everyone declared war on the forest. In the Putumayo region, these wars take their own particular forms. Scientifically, the Putumayo is…

Biodiversity, Peace and Conflict: Understanding the Connections

2024 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Lucy Rist, Albert Norstrom, and Cibele Queiroz

Trajectories of human conflict have direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem function. These occur across terrestrial, marine and freshwater systems via the well-established drivers…

Diverse Understandings and Values of Nature at the Peace–Environment Nexus: A Critical Analysis and Policy Implications towards Decolonial Peace

2024 | Ecology and Society
Maria Andrea Nardi, Torsten Krause, and Fariborz Zelli

Scholarship in peace and conflict studies is paying increasing attention to the role of the environment for conflict transformation and peacebuilding. However, a closer analysis…

Understanding and Overcoming Policy (In)Coherence to Control Deforestation in Colombia

2024 | Stockholm Environment Institute
Ivonne Lobos Alva and Mario Cárdenas

Deforestation is a lens through which policy coherence and social challenges can be analysed, as it hinders sustainable development, fuels social conflict and exacerbates inequality.…

Fires as Collateral or Means of War: Challenges of Environmental Peacebuilding in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

2024 | Ecology and Society
Lina Eklund and Pinar Dinc

The patterns, frequency and intensity of vegetation fires are often studied from biophysical perspectives, outlining the impacts of climate, vegetation, and proximity to human settlements…

Climate-Change-Driven Conflict: Insights from North Wollo, Northeast Ethiopia

2024 | Sustainable Environment
Amare Sewnet Minale, Zelalem Yekoye Alemayehu, and Achamyeleh Gashu Adam

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues among the current environmental problems and it affects the livelihood of the community by creating scarcity…

Ecological Peace Corridors: A New Conservation Strategy to Protect Human and Biological Diversity

2025 | Biological Conservation
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti

In a highly anthropized world with increasing human conflicts and a global call for expanding both protected and indigenous areas, we must reevaluate the importance…

Crops, Conflict and Climate Change

2025 | World Bank Group

This paper studies the welfare impacts of agricultural shocks on households with detailed heterogeneity, by taking consumption, land, and labor allocation choices into account. The…

Harmonising Biodiversity and Climate Action with a Peace Lens in Latin America and the Caribbean

2024 | adelphi global
Hector Morales Munoz and Lais Clemente Pereira

Biodiversity conservation plays a crucial role in addressing the challenges climate change and environmental degradation pose to human security and peace. This practical note explores…

Africa Climate Security Risk Assessment

2024 | adelphi
Lukas Rüttinger, Lukas Destrijcker, Héctor Morales-Muñoz, Adrian Foong, Jakob Gomolka, Lisa Binder, Taye Abdulkadir, Titilope Akosa, Anna Belli, Matthew Brubacher, Mabaye Dia, Matthieu Guillier, Salma Kadry, Benson Kendyuio, Grascious Maviza, Chantelle

The Africa Climate Security Risk Assessment (ACRA) is the first comprehensive study of climate security across Africa. It identifies climate security pathways across the African…

Transboundary Water Allocation under Water Scarcity Based on an Asymmetric Power Index Approach with Bankruptcy Theory

2024 | Water
Jianan Qin, Xiang Fu, Xia Wu, Jing Wang, Jie Huang, Xuxun Chen, Junwu Liu, and Jiantao Zhang

Cooperative and self-enforceable water allocation is a key instrument to manage geopolitical conflict induced by water scarcity, which necessitates the cooperative willingness of the agents…

Assessment of Future Water Security under Climate Change: Practical Water Allocation Scenarios in a Drought-Prone Watershed in South Korea

2024 | Water
Wonjin Kim, Sijung Choi, Seongkyu Kang, and Soyoung Woo

Seomijn River Basin has numerous hydraulic structures designed to satisfy water demands and mitigate future droughts. However, the increasing water demand and export to neighboring…

Transboundary Aquifer Management across the Americas: Hydro-Diplomacy as an Accelerator of Adaptive Groundwater Governance Amid Climate Change Challenges

2024 | Water
Giulia I. Rubin, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Carolina Londono-Escudero, and Raffaele Vignola

The management of transboundary aquifers across the Americas faces significant challenges, especially as climate change and population growth intensify groundwater stress. Groundwater use has increased…

Evolution of Food Insecurity in Sudan during the Ongoing Conflict

2024 | International Food Policy Research Institute
Oliver K. Kirui, Khalid Siddig, Monica Fisher, Hala Abushama, Mosab Ahmed, Mariam Raouf, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

Sudan's food security landscape has been dramatically impacted by the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which…

Undercurrents: How Conflict, Climate Change and the Environment Intersect in Yemen

2024 | adelphi
Sinéad Barry, Beatrice Mosello, Spencer McMurray, and Lucas Destrijcker

Undercurrents examines the complex relationship between war, increasing climate-related hazards and environmental degradation in Yemen that are undermining security and driving further conflict, particularly at…

Interstate Environmental Peacebuilding: A Systematic Review

2024 | Environment and Security
Aleksandra Balinskaia

In response to the growing interest in environmental peacebuilding (EP), the imperative of organizing and impartially assessing accumulated knowledge has intensified. Previous review articles on…

You’re Not Welcome! Violence and Support for an Open Grazing Ban Policy in Kaduna, Nigeria

2024 | Environment and Security
Daniel Tuki

This study examines the effect of victimization and religious affiliation on support for a policy banning the open grazing of livestock in the northern Nigerian…

Geopolitical Ecology: Climate Change Geopolitics and Farmer–Herder Conflicts in West Africa

2024 | Environment and Security
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Climate change impacts various social systems and has been linked to conflicts, especially resource conflicts in dry and semi-dry lands of West Africa. Climate change…

Boosting the Adoption of Sustainable Land-Use Systems for Achieving Colombian Land-Based Climate Action and Peacebuilding Goals

2025 | World Development
Lisset Pérez-Marulanda, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, and Augusto Castro-Nunez

Sustainable land-use systems (SLUS), such as agroforestry cocoa, implemented using organic fertilization, prescribed post-harvest practices and rainwater irrigation, can potentially increase farm productivity, while reducing…

Integrating Livestock Climate Adaptation and Peacebuilding: The Climate Security Sensitivity Tool for Livestock Systems (CSSTxLS)

2024 | CGIAR
Carolina Sarzana, Radhika Singh, George Meddings, Anna Belli, Brenda Chepngetich, Livia Sagliocco, Mary Mutheu, and Grazia Pacillo

Climate change presents profound challenges for livestock-dependent communities, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected regions where environmental, social, and political pressures intersect. The Climate Security Sensitivity…

Destruction of the Oskil Dam in Ukraine, March–September 2022: A Remote Assessment of Environmental Impacts

2024 | Conflict Observatory
CURIA Lab

This report investigates the March and September 2022 breaches of the Oskil Dam, the second of which rendered the dam inoperable for 22 months. The…

Climate as a Catalyst for Global Conflicts [Audio]

2025 | Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University
Peter Schwartzstein

Climate change isn’t just an environmental threat—it’s becoming a catalyst for conflict.

Over the past decade, rising temperatures, water shortages, and other environmental disruptions have fueled…

Transboundary Hydropolitical Conflicts and Their Impact on River Morphology and Environmental Degradation in the Hirmand Basin, West Asia

2025 | Scientific Reports
Atefe Arfa, Seyed Ali Ayyoubzadeh, Hossein Shafizadeh-Moghadam, and Hojjat Mianabadi

The Hirmand Transboundary River Basin (HTRB), shared by Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, is a hydrologically critical and politically sensitive region. This basin sustains livelihoods, ecosystems,…