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Dispute Resolution/Mediation

There are 535 resources related to Dispute Resolution/Mediation.

Environmental Entry Points to Mediation

2026 | Center for Security Studies and ETH Zürich
Simon Mason, Sebastian Kratzer, and Edward Jackson

The environmental peacebuilding field often advances the assumption that environmental issues present good entry points for dialogue, mediation, and peace. It is, however, often that…

Integrated Assessment of Climate-Related Security Risks for Peace and Security in Blue Nile, Sudan, and Their Gender Dimensions

2026 | UNEP
Hector Morales Munoz, Lukas Rüttinger, and Yosr Khèdr

The Blue Nile State in Sudan is grappling with a severe and escalating crisis, marked by an intensifying conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)…

The Role of the International Environmental Cooperation in Achieving Sustainable Peacebuilding in International Relations: A Comprehensive and Critical Analysis

2025 | Journal of Posthumanism
Mohamad Albakjaji, Soumaya Alkhammasi, and Yusra Alshanqityi

Despite scientific and technological advancements, the international community faces a dual challenge: maintaining global peace while addressing accelerating environmental degradation. Environmental issues such as climate…

Study Maps Disputes, Conflicts along Amazon Borders

2025 | Agência Brasil
Rafael Cardoso

The Amazon is a strategic biome for global climate regulation, home to unique biodiversity and diverse traditional cultures. Beyond its environmental and cultural richness, the…

Mercenary Meltdown: The Wagner Group’s Failure in Mali

2025 | The Sentry

The first Wagner Group fighters arrived in Bamako in January 2022 to assist the Malian military junta in its counterterrorism campaign. Three and a half…

CSM Progress Report 2024: A Year of Rising Heat and Risk

2025 | United Nations

This report summarizes the main achievements of the Climate Security Mechanism in 2024 towards advancing peace-positive climate action, catalyzing climate-informed approaches to peace and security,…

Conflict Management as an Insular Strategy? Comparing Dyadic Learning of Dispute Resolution Strategies across Geopolitical Issues

2025 | Environment and Security
Andrew Owsiak and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

This study considers whether and how familiarity with (past usage) and the usefulness (success) of past conflict management strategies influence the way that pairs of…

Pathways to Instability: A Synthetic Framework to Parse Connections between Water and Conflict

2025 | 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…

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…

Mining Competition and Violent Conflict in Africa: Pitting Against Each Other

2025 | Journal of Politics
Anouk S. Rigterink, Tarek Ghani, Juan S. Lozano, and Jacob N. Shapiro

Existing explanations for the well-established relationship between mining and conflict predominantly interpret violence near mines as conflict over territory or government. The authors provide evidence…

Conflict in a Warming World: How Climate Shocks Impact Rebel Demands and Peace Agreement Outcomes

2025 | PeaceRep, University of Edinburgh, and University of St Andrews
Elisa D’Amico

As climate change becomes more severe and its effects more frequently observed, its impact on global conflict is increasingly important. Climate shocks, acting as threat…

Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain

2023 | MIT Press
Sonja Pieck

The first book-length scholarly treatment of Germany's largest conservation project, the Green Belt, Mnemonic Ecologies by Sonja Pieck presents a new interdisciplinary approach: that effective…

The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Negotiating Peace Agreements

2025 | Negotiation Journal
Saleem H. Ali, Nancy E. Boyer, Gabriela Mundaca, Lynette de Silva, Shaghayegh Jabalameli, and Jahan Taganova

Drawing on the growing genre of literature on “environmental peacebuilding,” this article develops a qualitative model of how land and natural resources (including minerals, water,…

Factors Affecting Transboundary Water Disputes: Nile, Indus, and Euphrates–Tigris River Basins

2025 | Water
Mujib Ahmad Azizi and Jorge Leandro

Transboundary water disputes arise as nations compete over shared water resources, exacerbated by climate change, socio-economic inequalities, and geopolitical tensions. These disputes, prominent in river…

Peace Agreements in a Changing Climate: Three Ways in Which Climate Change and Peace Processes Interact

2025 | Environment and Security
Tim Epple

Previous research has shown that climate change can exacerbate conflict drivers or, on the other hand, incentivise ‘environmental peacebuilding’. One might, therefore, expect to find…

Environmental Peacebuilding, Indigenous Epistemologies and Experience: Learning from Ruptures and Resilience in Solomon Islands

2025 | Asia Pacific Viewpoint
David Gegeo, Lincy Pendeverana, Mary Tahu Paia, Jack Maebuta, Anouk Ride, and Transform Aqorau

Environmental peacebuilding, as a construct and practice, holds potential to recognise environmental conflicts and respond to them; however, indigenous perspectives can be obscured in its…

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…

The Role of Women in Peace-Building: a Sri Lankan Perspective

2015 | Relief Web
Ravinatha Aryasinha

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a privilege to have this opportunity to be with you today and to address the Ambassador's Luncheon Series. Building on…

From Conflict to Collaboration: Co-Funding Environmental Peacebuilding in South-Central Somalia

2024 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Kheira Tarif

Somalia is experiencing significant impacts of climate change. Its climate-related vulnerabilities are exacerbated by the enduring effects of more than three decades of violent conflict…

Environmental Pathways for Reconciliation in Yemen: Consultation Report 2024

2024 | European Institute of Peace
Tània Ferré Garcia, Laura Geres, Suaad Al-Salahi, Hisham al-Omeisy, and Albert Martinez

This report presents the results of an extensive consultation as part of EIP’s project, Environmental Pathways for Reconciliation in Yemen, which aims to support locally…

Exploring the Pakistan-India Water Dispute in the Context of Climate Change: An Environmental Security Perspective

2024 | Journal of Development and Social Sciences
Imran Zahoor and Zille Huma

This study delves into the intricate history and pivotal junctures of the Pakistan-India water dispute, examining its environmental dimensions through the lenses of environmental security…

Internal Drivers of Self-Rule Referendums

2024 | Conflict Management and Peace Science
Harriet Goers, Kathleen G. Cunningham, and Laia Balcells

From Catalonia to Kurdistan to Scotland, referendums have increasingly become popular strategies of self-rule movements. Despite this, many referendums are considered failures by the movements…

Complementary Ways of Seeing “the Nature”: Integrating Varieties of Knowledge Practices in the Management of Local Environmental Conflicts in Colombia

2024 | Environment and Security
Monica Amador-Jimienez, Pablo A. Ramos Baron, and Solveig Richter

The complex pathways of armed conflict and its consequences for ecosystem transformations and environmental change have been well established in the literature. However, despite recent…

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…

Exploring the Nexus between Natural Resources, Environmental Pollution, External Conflicts, Financial Stability and Human Development: Evidence from OECD Nations

2024 | Resources Policy
Chunyang Luo, Fucheng Yang, and Lu Pan

The abundance of natural resources is commonly regarded as a dual-faceted phenomenon, possessing the capacity to either hinder or facilitate the achievement of sustainable human development goals.…