Humanitarian Assistance
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Water as a Weapon: Israel’s Destruction and Deprivation of Water and Sanitation in Gaza
2026
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Médecins Sans Frontières
Israeli authorities have used access to water as a weapon against Palestinians, systematically depriving people in Gaza, Palestine, of water in a campaign of collective…
From Vulnerability to Agency: Gendered Dynamics of Food Security, Conflict, and Resilience in Eastern DRC
2026
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World Food Programme
World Food Programme
Eastern DRC continues to face protracted conflict, largescale displacement, and recurrent livelihood disruption, deepening food insecurity across the eastern provinces. According to the October 2025…
What It Takes to Eat: Conflict and Sudan’s Fragile Food System
2026
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CARE International
Nana Ndeda, Azzaa Ahmed Abdel Aziz, and Sara Karrar
In several areas of Sudan, each meal eaten by a family is made up of ingredients that have crossed one or more battlefields. In fact,…
The Duty to Cooperate in Addressing the Adverse Impact of Environmental Chronic Emergencies: Ensuring Gender-Sensitive Responses (chapter in "Gendering International Legal Responses to Environmental Chronic Emergencies")
2026
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Edward Elgar Publishing
Martina Sardo
This chapter examines the content and scope of States’ duty to cooperate in responding to the gendered effects of ECEs by exploring various forms of…
Navigating the Overlap of Climate-Induced and Conflict-Induced Displacement: Perspectives from Humanitarian Practitioners in the Philippines
2026
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npj Climate Action
Sheryn See, Aaron Opdyke, and Susan Banki
Disasters, conflict, and climate change increasingly intersect, forcing communities to flee and trapping them in cycles of displacement. Yet, humanitarian responses remain fragmented, often addressing…
Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability
2026
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MIT Press
Silvia Danielak
The first comprehensive account of infrastructure building in United Nations peace operations. Roads, bridges, a renewable power plant, and an electricity grid: UN peacekeepers might…
Populism, Post-truth Politics and Disaster Risk: Challenges for Governance and Marginalised Communities
2025
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DRR Dynamics
Kevin Blanchard
This policy brief explores the intersection of populism, post-truth politics, and disaster risk governance, with a focus on their impacts on marginalised groups. Populism, characterised…
Hidden Hunger: The Gendered Impacts of Food Security and Malnutrition on Women and Girls in the West Bank
2026
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UN Women and West Bank Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group
The West Bank Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group produced this Gender Matters Bulletin: Hidden Hunger to highlight the gender-specific impacts of the ongoing…
L'Adaptation au Changement Climatique : Vers une Transformation Structurelle du Secteur de L'Aide Internationale
2026
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Groupe URD
Jérôme Faucet
If current trends continue, the world is on course for a temperature increase of almost +2.9°C by the end of the century, resulting in more…
Integrated Assessment of Climate-Related Security Risks for Peace and Security in Blue Nile, Sudan, and Their Gender Dimensions
2026
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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)…
Climate, Conflict and the Development Squeeze [Audio]
2026
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In Pursuit of Development
Florian Krampe and Dan Banik
Dan Banik and Florian Krampe explore how climate change is reshaping development and security debates -- not as a single cause of conflict, but as…
Pre-Feasibility Study: The Humanitarian and Trade Corridor Jordan – West Bank – Israel – Gaza
2025
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EcoPeace Middle East
Ali Shaath, Yitzhak Gal, and Mohammad Khader
In light of the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe resulting from the ongoing war on Gaza, there is an urgent need to establish a robust and scalable logistical mechanism…
Understanding Relationships among Climate Change, Conflict, Migration/Displacement and Health in Humanitarian Settings
2025
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Conflict and Health
Molly E. Lasater, Gabrielle Prager, Yuni A. Choi, Tim Groteclaes, Divya Rao, Shona P. Kamps, Chiara Altare, and Paula B. Spiegel
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of various extreme weather events across regions, globally. Climate change has also been associated with conflict, migration…
The 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report
2025
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
SOFI 2025 presents the latest data and analysis on hunger, food security and nutrition worldwide, including updated estimates on the cost and affordability of healthy…
UNMISS Engagement with Floods
2025
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UN Mission in South Sudan
This publication examines UNMISS's strategic engagement with climate-induced flooding in 2024, framing this involvement as a practical operationalization of its core mandate to protect civilians…
Murky Waters of War: Toward a Clearer Conceptualization of Water as a Weapon
2025
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Environment and Security
Charlotte Grech-Madin
Water has long presented a potent means to harm and influence others in war. All states, and many non-state actors, possess water supply and/or storage…
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Resilient Healthcare Systems: Addressing Medicine and Public Health Challenges in Conflict Zones
2025
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Medicine
Chinyere N. Ugwu Meng, Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu, Esther Ugo Alum, Val Hyginus Udoka Eze, Mariam Basajj, Jovita Nnenna Ugwu, Fabian C. Ogenyi Beng, Regina Idu Ejemot-Nwadiaro, Michael Ben Okon MSc, Simeon Ikechukwu Egba, and Daniel Ejim Uti
This review explores the integration of sustainable development goals (SDGs) into healthcare organizations in conflict zones, with a specific focus on emergent models aimed at…
IOM Somalia's Environmental Peacebuilding Programme 2025 [Video]
2025
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IOM Somalia Mission
Widespread environmental damage in Somalia heightens competition for dwindling resources, intensifies existing conflicts and can lead to new ones. IOM Somalia's Environmental Peacebuilding programme focuses…
The DRC Inquiry: Ad-Hoc Parliamentary Inquiry into the Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the DRC
2025
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APPG on International Law, Justice and Accountability and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute
APPG on International Law, Justice and Accountability and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute
Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) remains one of the most under-reported and under-discussed crimes, despite the changing perception of sexual violence in conflict as seen over…
Gender Dynamics Within Food Systems in Displacement Contexts: Experiences from Displaced Populations in Nampula, Mozambique
2025
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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…
The Environmental Costs of the War in Sudan
2025
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
The ongoing conflict in Sudan has profoundly impacted its environment but these consequences have received little attention. CEOBS has been monitoring the conflict’s environmental dimensions…
Is Food Security National Security? [Audio]
2025
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Center for Strategic and International Studies
Caitlin Welsh
US government investments in global food security have traditionally received strong bipartisan support from policymakers, either explicitly or implicitly, on moral, economic, and national security…
Somalia: IPC Acute Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Snapshot | January - June 2025
2025
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Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Nearly 3.4 million people or 17 percent of Somalia’s population are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC AFI Phase 3 or…
Preventing Starvation Crimes: Lessons Learned from Tigray
2025
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Stimson Center
Shane Goetz
Despite the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2417 six years ago, conflict continues to drive acute food insecurity around the globe. From Gaza to…
Mutual Aid in Times of Crisis. Case Study: Australia
2025
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Groupe URD
Claire McLisky and Emma Pittaway
This report considers the forms, characteristics and dynamics of mutual aid, and the relationship between mutual aid and official responses, in Greater Uki, located in…
L'Entraide en Temps de Crise : Étude de Cas Tchad
2025
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Groupe URD
Cécile Petitdemange and Aline Hubert
This case study was chosen because Chad is one of the most vulnerable countries and the least prepared for climate change, and is very frequently…
MiRCH Update: Military Responses to Climate Disasters across the United States
2025
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Center for Climate and Security
Tom Ellison
The Center for Climate and Security’s (CCS) Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker now includes 501 deployments in 97 countries between June 2022 and…
Twelve Research Agendas for Advancing the Peace-Sustainability Nexus
2025
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Peace and Sustainability
Dahlia Simangan, Joshua Fisher, Tobias Ide, Vally Koubi, Ayyoob Sharifi, Katherine Alfredo, John Lee Candelaria, Simon Dalby, Cullen Hendrix, Ali Kharrazi, Úrsula Oswald-Spring, and Joyashree Roy
The world's social and environmental systems are currently experiencing an increase in the number of conflicts and irreversible human-induced changes. While destabilizing, these changes offer…
Climate Change Adaptation in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: Conflict and Peace Considerations in Project Design
2025
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Environment and Security
Jonas Bergman
There is a growing overlap between countries most affected by climate change and those affected by conflict and fragility. This paper addresses the need for…
Nexus Dynamics: The Impact of Environmental Vulnerabilities and Climate Change on Refugee Camps
2024
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Oxford Open Climate Change
Pablo Bose
Climate change and forced migration are often thought about in terms of the sheer numbers of people who might be displaced by a transforming environment.…