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Impact of the Tigray War on Water Infrastructures and Essential Hydrosystems in Selected Battle Corridors

2025 | Water
Gebremedhin Berhane, Tesfamichael Gebreyohannes, Miruts Hagos, Abdelwassie Huessien, Aregawi Gebrekirstos, Kaleab A. Abera, Thomas Hermans, and Kristine Walraevens

Armed conflicts continue to severely impact human populations and essential infrastructure, particularly water supply systems. This study examines the Yechilla area, a high-intensity battle corridor…

The Critical Minerals Conundrum: What You Should Know

2025 | World Resources Institute
Serena Li and Ke Wang

The world is racing to increase supplies of lithium, cobalt, copper and other "critical minerals" that are building blocks of modern technology. Not only are…

The Environment, Conflict, and Peace in Sudan: From Response to Recovery

2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

This collaboration between the Conflict Sensitivity Facility and CEOBS aims to foster a greater understanding of how the environment interacts with conflict and peace in…

Environmental Peacebuilding in Colombia: Leveraging Synergies between Environment, Climate, Peace and Security Policies

2025 | adelphi research
Hector Morales Munoz, Nina Schmelzer, Alina Viehoff, Benjamin Pohl, and Juanita Velez

This report analyses the peacebuilding policy approaches of the Santos, Duque, and Petro administrations in Colombia and explores environmental peacebuilding good practices at the local…

Conflict and Flooding Are Driving Deteriorating Acute Food Insecurity

2025 | 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…

Water Sovereignty as a Pathway to Food and Energy Security in Afghanistan

2025 | 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 | 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…

Climate Shocks, Household Food Security and Welfare in Afghanistan

2025 | 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…

Formalization as a Tool for Environmental Peacebuilding? Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Liberia and Sierra Leone

2021 | International Affairs
Christina Ankenbrand, Zabrina Welter, and Nina Engwicht

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has long been a vital source of livelihoods for rural populations in the global South. Yet, it has also been…

Cross-Border Tourism as an Agent of Environmental Peacebuilding

2025 | Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Connor Clark, Daniel G. Pilgreen, and Dallen J. Timothy

This grounded theory study examines cross-border tourism as an agent in environmental peacebuilding by fostering cooperative resource management in borderland regions. The Big Bend Rio…

Sudan: Women, Food Insecurity, and Famine Risk in Sudan, Gender Snapshot

2025 | UN Women
UN Women

This fact sheet, developed by the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group Sudan, highlights key gendered trends from World Food Programme Quarter 1 2025…

Gender-Based Violence as a Barrier to Women Rights towards Socio-environmental Sustainability

2024 | Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management
A. C. Cristina De la Parra-Guerra, J. Truyol-Padilla , C. García-Alzate, and F. Fuentes Gandara

This study provides an exhaustive analysis of the intersection between gender-based violence and environmental sustainability, focusing on the Colombian experience, particularly within the context of…

Mine Clearance, Peacebuilding and Development: Interactions between Sustainable Development Goals and Infrastructure in Angola

2025 | Peacebuilding
Eka Ikpe and Sarah Njeri

In this article, the authors analyse the interaction between anti-vehicle mine (AVM) clearance and longer-term peacebuilding and development in relation to agricultural, conservation, trade, and…

Water Sovereignty as a Pathway to Food and Energy Security in Afghanistan

2025 | 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 | 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…

Blueprint for an Agricultural Recovery Plan for Ukraine

2025 | 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…

Saving the World with Organic Agriculture: Environmental Peacebuilding in the Nascent Democracy of Myanmar

2025 | 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…

Civic Power in Mining Conflicts: Barrier or Catalyst for a Just Energy Transition [Video]

2025 | Institute of Development Studies
Anabel Marin and Gabriel Palazzo

This seminar presents the first systematic global mapping of civil resistance to mineral extraction, examining its implications for the energy transition. Using GDELT data (2015–2022),…

Bridging Gaps in Water Governance: Addressing Conflict and Climate Challenges

2025 | 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…

The Looming Disaster: Mass Migrations, Water Wars & Global Instability [Video]

2025 | WION

A new global report warns that over 1.2 billion people could be displaced by 2050 due to ecological disasters driven by climate change. Regions like…

How to Do Note: Designing Gender Transformative Approaches in the Context of Women’s Land and Resource Rights

2025 | ReliefWeb
International Fund for Agricultural Development

Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) aim to challenge and change the underlying social norms, power dynamics,and systemic barriers perpetuating inequality between women and men. Unlike mainstream…

How Increasing Global Military Expenditure Threatens SDG 13 on Climate Action

2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

This paper outlines the impact of rising military expenditure on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 13: take urgent action to combat climate change and…

Water Security in the Polycrisis: Between Negative and Positive Tipping Points

2025 | 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 | 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…

Big Oil Is Fueling a Rise in Cancer in Iraq's Basra

2025 | New Lines Magazine
Margaux Seigneur and Pauline Gauer

In Aradah, a southern Iraqi town of just over 50,000 people, the end of the day arrives quietly, veiled in a haze that seems to…

Climate, Peace and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Katongo Seyuba

Local communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) face the combined challenge of climate change and violent conflict, which exacerbates vulnerabilities, poverty, displacement…

Climate Change as a Double-Edged Sword: Exploring the Potential of Environmental Recovery to Foster Stability in Darfur, Sudan

2025 | 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…

Gender Dynamics Within Food Systems in Displacement Contexts: Experiences from Displaced Populations in Nampula, Mozambique

2025 | Frontiers
Thea Synnestvedt, Gracsious Maviza, and Mandlenkosi Maphosa

In Nampula province, Mozambique, internally displaced and refugee communities live in settlements situated at the outskirts of Nampula city. This paper explores the intersection of…

Climate Change and Peacebuilding: Sub-Themes of an Emerging Research Agenda

2024 | 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…

From Conflict to a Climate Future: Unraveling the Nexus between Warfare and Environmental Degradation

2025 | 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…