Environmental Peacebuilding Association

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YouTube's role in skill development and self-employment.

2024 | N/A
Pauline Wanjuki Njeru

I am Pauline Njeru, I hold a Master of Science degree in Plant Pathology. Well, having graduated with this degree I thought life would be…

Migratory Pastoralism, Herders-Farmers Conflicts, and the Ruga Settlement Policy in North Central Nigeria

2023 | African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review
John Sunday Ojo

North Central Nigeria has experienced a series of deadly conflicts between Fulani herders and farmers. Contestation over ecological space and natural resources, prompted by climate-…

Environmental Change and Identity Questions in Farmer and Herder's Eco-Violence Narratives in the Nigerian Benue Valley

2024 | SN Social Sciences
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Studies exploring the farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria as eco-violence need to explore more the opinions of those affected to account for their lived experiences. This…

Natural Disasters, Foreign Direct Investment; and Women's Rights in Developing Countries

2024 | Social Science Research
Mi Jeong Shin and Seungbin Park

We examine the conditions under which women's economic and political status is less vulnerable in the aftermath of natural disasters. We theorize that women in…

The Post-Conflict Expansion of Coca Farming and Illicit Cattle Ranching in Colombia

2023 | Scientific Reports, Nature
Paulo J. Murillo-Sandoval, John Kilbride, Elizabeth Tellman, David Wrathall, Jamon Van Den Hoek, and Robert E. Kennedy

Illicit cattle ranching and coca farming have serious negative consequences on the Colombian Amazon’s land systems. The underlying causes of these land activities include historical…

Environmental Violence: A Tool for Planetary Health Research

2023 | The Lancet
Richard Marcantonio and Agustín Fuentes

From climate change to toxic pollution and the interactive effects of multiple pollution streams, human health is under siege. Human-produced environmental risks to health and…

Environmental Violence and Enterprise: The Outsized Role of Business for Environmental Peacebuilding

2024 | Business Horizons
Richard Marcantonio

Environmental violence (EV) is the complex of direct and indirect impacts of human-produced pollution on human health and wellbeing. Today, EV is the single largest…

Non-State Armed Groups with Territorial Control as Emergent Actors of Wartime Water Governance

2023 | Environment and Security
Juliane Schillinger

In discussions of water management during conflict, non-state armed groups (NSAGs) primarily feature in relation to the strategic use of water resources to gain military…

Can Peace Operations Mitigate the Effect of Armed Conflict on Malnutrition? Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

2023 | Environment and Security
Kyle Beardsley and Jessica Beardsley

Armed conflict increases food insecurity leading to malnutrition especially in women, but can peace operations mitigate the increased prevalence of malnutrition in conflict zones? This…

Environmental Consequences for the World of Russia's War against Ukraine

2024 | International Journal of Environmental Studies
Ermir Shahini, Olena Shebanina, Iurii Kormyshkin, Antonina Drobitko, and Natalya Chernyavskaya

War has serious consequences for the environment and human health. As these impacts can be long-term and irreversible, it is important to understand how they…

Targeted Sanctions, Resource Substitution, and Violence against Civilians: Localized Evidence from African States

2024 | World Development
Jerry Urtuzuastigui and Ore Koren

Since the 1990 s, the UN Security Council increased its use of targeted sanctions, yet we know very little about their unintended impact on civilian victimization,…

Powers of Exclusion and Counter-Exclusion: The Political Ecology of Ethno-Territorial Customary Land Boundary Conflicts in Ghana

2019 | Land Use Policy
Moses M. Kansanga, Godwin Arku, and Isaac Luginaah

Inter-community boundary conflicts are a key challenge to land governance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Ghana. Although exclusions engendered by inter-community boundary conflicts usually affect…

Climate Change, Migration, and Farmer-Herder Conflict in Ghana

2022 | Conflict Resolution Quarterly
Abdul K. Issifu, Farncis D. Darko, and Sebastian A. Paalo

Climate change, migration, and conflict have been featured prominently in academic and policy literature. While Africa remains the major reference point, studies on key conflict…

Deforestation as a Site of Conflict and Differentiation: The Case of the Rohingya Refugee Influx in the Teknaf Wildlife Snactuary

2024 | Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Tasfia Ahmen and Priyong Sabastini

The migration of refugees and displaced persons has previously been linked to deforestation globally, with reports of clashes over resources and forest rights being associated…

The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance

2024 | World Development
Simon Bornschier and Manuel Vogt

Natural resource exploitation often generates negative externalities and fuels social conflict. Yet, patterns of social resistance against mining differ considerably within and across countries. What…

As Taliban Poppy Ban Continues, Afghan Poverty Deepens

2024 | United States Institute of Peace
William Byrd

Afghanistan, historically the leading source of the world’s illegal opium, is on-track for an unprecedented second year of dramatically reduced poppy cultivation, reflecting the Taliban…

Exploring Environmental Violence: Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement

2024 | Cambridge University Press
Richard Marcantonio, John Paul Lederach, and Agustin Fuentes

The contributors to this book represent a wide breadth of scholarly approaches, including law, social and environmental science, engineering, as well as from the arts…

The Glaring Gaps: Environmental Violence and Peace Research and Practice

2024 | Peacebuilding
Richard Marcantonio

Human-caused global impact on socio-ecological systems has been labelled the greatest challenge to human and environmental health. It is also a significant, and perhaps the…

Assessing the Influence of Landscape Conservation and Protected Areas on Social Wellbeing Using Random Forest Machine Learning

2024 | Nature
Joshua Fisher, Summer Allen, Greg Yetman, and Linda Pistolesi

The urgency of interconnected social-ecological dilemmas such as rapid biodiversity loss, habitat loss and fragmentation, and the escalating climate crisis have led to increased calls…

Oiling up the Field: Forced Internal Displacement and the Expansion of Palm Oil in Colombia

2023 | World Development
Jaime Millan-Quijano and Sebastian Pulgarin

Widespread analysis of the link between natural resources and conflicts has shown how positive income shocks in agriculture usually reduce violence (opportunity cost effect), while…

How Climate Change Induced Land Conflicts and Food Insecurity in Africa: A Case of Herdsmen-Farmers Crisis in Nigeria

2024 | African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule and Ewere Clinton Okonta

In Nigeria, due to the herdsmen-farmers crisis occasioned by climate change and land conflicts, food production has been hampered. The study explores the intricate relationship…

Impact of Farmers-Herders Conflicts on the Socio-Economic Development of Nigeria

2024 | International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Muazu Bukar Ali

The paper investigates the profound impact of the enduring conflict between farmers and herders on the socioeconomic development of Nigeria. Stemming from resource scarcity, particularly…

Responding to Civil War: Fisheries as a Safety Net and Lootable Resource on Lake Tanganyika, the Democratic Republic of Congo

2024 | Maritime Studies
Deo Namwira, Fiona Nunan, and Danielle Beswick

Research on conflict and fisheries has largely focused on conflict between resource users, rather than on how fisheries are affected by external conflict, including civil…

Be a Man: A Theory of Climate Change, Masculinities and Violence

2024 | Environment and Security
Ben Francis

Experts increasingly agree that the impacts of climate change are likely to create new violent conflict risks and exacerbate existing ones. However, the extent of…

Number of Migrant Children Moving across Latin America and the Caribbean Hits New Record amid Violence, Instability and Climate Change

2023 | UNICEF
Tess Ingram and Sendai Carolina Zea