Sub-Saharan Africa
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Natural Resource Rents, Political Regimes and Terrorism in Africa
2020
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International Economics
Kazeem Ajide, Juliet Adenuga, and Ibrahim Raheem
The study adds to the stock of existing literature on the supposed crises-inducing role of natural resource rents, by specifically linking same to political regime…
Quantifying the Influence of Climate Variability on Armed Conflict in Africa, 2000-2015
2022
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Environment, Development, and Sustainability
Qian Wang, Mengmeng Hao, David Helman, Fangyu Ding, Dong Jiang, Xiaolan Xie, Shuai Chen, and Tian Ma
Global climate change, expected to be one of the most severe challenges that human beings have ever encountered, has had far-reaching impacts on ecosystems and…
Policy Response to Climate-Related Security Risks: The African Union
2020
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Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute
Vane Aminga
The security challenges arising from climate change often go beyond state boundaries. They pose unique and multidimensional issues for governments and institutions trying to find…
Ecological Threat Report 2022: Analysing Ecological Threats, Resilience & Peace
2022
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Institute for Economics and Peace
Each year, the ETR analyses ecological threats to assess which countries are most at risk from conflict, civil unrest and displacement caused by ecological degradation,…
Global Report on Food Crises in 2017
2017
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Currently, the world is faced with an unprecedented call for action at a moment in which four countries have been identified as at risk of…
Building Climate Resilience through Effective, Gender-Sensitive Migration Policy in the SADC Region
2020
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Center for International Governance Innovation, South African Institute of International Affairs
Bertha Chiroro
This policy briefing discusses the centrality of communicating climate change impacts through a people-centered approach that considers communities’ wellbeing by linking climate change to poverty…
World Food Programme Global Hotspots 2020
2020
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World Food Programme
European Commission
The WFP 2020 Global Hotspots Report highlights grave challenges in sub-Saharan Africa over the next six months with Zimbabwe, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of…
Post-Conflict Restitution of Customary Land: Guidelines and Trajectories of Change
2023
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World Development
Sandra F. Joireman and Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo
Since the 1990s a body of soft international law and public policy has developed around property restitution after conflict. The Pinheiro Principles and the Voluntary…
IRC Watchlist 2021
2020
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International Rescue Commission
The IRC is launching Watchlist 2021 as a call to action for global leaders and the general public. Historically, the annual Watchlist was a humanitarian…
Identifying Hot Spots of Security Vulnerability Associated with Climate Change in Africa
2014
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Springer
Joshua Busby, Kerry Cook, Edward Vizy, Todd Smith, and Mesfin Bekalo
“Given its high dependence on rainfed agriculture and its comparatively low adaptive capacity, Africa is frequently invoked as especially vulnerable to climate change. Within Africa,…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice
2022
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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
E. Tendayi Achiume
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…
Land Rights and Peacebuilding: Challenges and Responses for the International Community
2010
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International Journal of Peace Studies
Jon Unruh
Rectifying land rights in war-torn settings are among the most daunting challenges of peacebuilding. War-torn land tenure situations are unique settings in their combination of…
Natural Resources and Conflict Management: The Case of Land
2012
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United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
J.M Lusugga Kironde
Africa in general and Eastern Africa in particular is the scene of many disputes related to land and natural resources. This is partly a result…
Harvesting Peace: Food Security, Conflict, and Cooperation
2013
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Woodrow Wilson international Center for Scholars
Emmy Simmons
Combating hunger can help prevent conflict, according to a new report from the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, which recommends that food assistance…
Land Tenure Conflict and Agribusiness Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
2021
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South African Geographic Journal
Kablan Antoine Effossou and Moses Azong Cho
There is a growing demand of land by multinational commercial agribusinesses to meet the increasing demand for food in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the export…
The Human Dimensions of the Climate Risk and Armed Conflict Nexus: A Review Article
2022
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Regional Environmental Change
Leanna Augsten, Karine Gagné, and Yvonne Su
The literature that examines the nexus of climate risk and armed conflict tends to be based on quantitative datasets and focuses on the causal relationship…
Conflict Gold to Responsible Gold: A Roadmap for Companies & Governments
2021
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Sentry
Sasha Lezhnev
Gold’s meteoric rise in price has brought renewed attention to the problem of conflict gold—gold that funds armed groups and criminal networks. Over $4 billion…
Applying WASH Systems Approaches in Fragile Contexts
2020
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Agenda for Change
Will Tillett, Joanna Trevor, Juliane Schillinger, and David DeArmey
This discussion paper considers how WASH systems concepts and approaches can be applicable to fragile contexts, and what adaptations may be needed to make such…
From Bullets to Boreholes: A Disaggregated Analysis of Domestic Water Cooperation in Drought-Prone Regions
2020
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Global Environmental Change
Stefan Döring
Does water shortage incentivize cooperation? Case studies suggests that water scarcity can rarely, if at all, explain violence, instead such shortages rather facilitate cooperative actions…
Climate Change, Sub-Saharan Africa, and US National Security
2019
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American Security Project
John Madeira
Over the next century, states in Sub-Saharan Africa will become major players in the global community. As climate change continues to take a toll on…
Responding to the Challenge of Fragility and Security in West Africa: Natural Resources, Extractive Industry Investment, and Social Conflict
2015
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Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group and World Bank
Roy Maconachi, Radhika Srinivasan, and Nicholas Menzies
The inability to unlock natural resource wealth for the benefit of developing countries’ local populations—a phenomenon popularly known as the “resource curse” or the “paradox…
Natural Resources and Conflict: A Guide for Mediation Practitioners
2015
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United Nations Department of Political Affairs and United Nations Environment Programme
Michael J. Brown, Alex Grzybowski, David Jensen, and Josie Lianna Kaye
This report bridges the gap between the technical and political aspects by providing a much needed conflict resolution framework for disputes that center on natural…
Game Theory and SWOT Analysis of GERD's Conflicts Impacts on Eastern Nile Countries (chapter in "The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry")
2023
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Springer Link
El-Sayed Ewis Omran and Abdelazim Negm
Although the Nile is one of the world’s most powerful rivers, the river basin is shared by 11 nations. Only Egypt has historical rights under…
Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa: Drivers, Impacts, and Resolution and Peacebuilding Strategies
2023
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Environmental Research Letters
Ellis Adjei Adams, Audrey Thill, Elias Danyi Kuusaana, and Anna Mittag
Resource scarcity and insecurity due to climate change, coupled with ethnic, religious, and identity politics, have strained peaceful coexistence between farmers and herders in West…
The Political Economy of the Resource Curse
1999
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World Politics
Michael Ross
How does a state's natural resource wealth influence its economic development? For the past fifty years, versions of this question have been explored by both…
Drought, Local Public Goods, and Inter-Communal Conflicts: Testing the Mediating Effects of Public Service Provisions
2022
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Defence and Peace Economics
Xun Cao, Theodora-Ismene Gizeli, Anja Shortland, and Henrik Urdal
Water charities and the UN development goals consider access to clean water and sanitation as transformative: improving personal dignity, quality of life and economic opportunities…
Climate Change and Conflict in the Horn of Africa: A Gendered Perspective
2022
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Africa Amani Journal
Jihan Ali, Rhoda Mwasigwa, and Michael Sitawa
Despite much research on climate-conflict linkages, little attention has been paid to the conflict-climate-gender triple nexus. Threats from conflict and climate change, as well as…
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D
Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…
Future Global Conflict Risk Hotspots between Biodiversity Conservation and Food Security: 10 Countries and 7 Biodiversity Hotspots
2022
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Global Ecology and Conservation
Jianqiao Zhao, Yue Cao, Le Yu, Xiaoping,Liu Rui Yang, and PengGong
Balancing biodiversity conservation and food security is the key to global sustainable development. However, we know little about the future global conflict risk hotspots between biodiversity…
Conflict Gold to Responsible Gold: A Roadmap for Companies and Governments
2021
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Sentry
Sasha Lezhnev
The technology, jewelry, financial, and automotive sectors are increasingly at risk of purchasing gold via Dubai that benefits armed groups responsible for mass atrocities in…