Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Palestine-Israel

Regional Cooperation on Environment, Economy, and Natural Resource Management: How Can it Contribute to Peacebuilding?.

2009 | Moira Feil, Diana Klein, and Meike Westerkamp (International Alert and Adelphi)

The Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP) Regional Cooperation on Environment, Economy and Natural Resource Management Cluster has been looking at the role regional cooperation initiatives in…

Global Report on Food Crises 2026

2026 | Global Network Against Food Crises

The 2026 edition of the Global Report on Food Crises is the 10th edition of the report. For 10 years the Global Network Against Food…

Water as a Weapon: Israel’s Destruction and Deprivation of Water and Sanitation in Gaza

2026 | 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…

The Human and Environmental Costs of the War in Iran

2026 | Center for American Progress
Kalina Gibson, Dawn Le, and Ariana Sharghi

Civilians have suffered devastating health and environmental costs as a result of the US and Israeli war with Iran, from mass displacement and polluted air…

Pre-Feasibility Study: The Humanitarian and Trade Corridor Jordan – West Bank – Israel – Gaza

2025 | 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…

When Bombs Turn the Taps Off: The Impact of Conflict on Water Infrastructure in Lebanon

2025 | Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight, and Oxfam

Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight and Oxfam have worked collectively to document the impact of the escalation of conflict in Lebanon on water infrastructure since…

Participatory Approaches to Conflict, Climate Change and Environment: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa

2025 | Arab Reform Initiative and Robert Bosch Stiftung
Sammy Kayed, Shivan Fazil, Hussam Hussein, Asma Khalifa, Abeer Butmeh, Abdalftah Hamed Ali, Sarine Karajerjian, Ahmad Al-wadaey, and Tobias Zumbraegel

The MENA countries have been confronting profound and far-reaching climate shocks. Experts widely agree that human-driven activity intensely shapes escalating climate stressors—including extreme weather events—dwindling…

Sustainability amid Conflict: Gaza's Environmental, Social, and Economic Struggles

2025 | Journal of Environmental Management
Abdo Hassoun

The recent war on Gaza (October 2023–January 2025) has led to profound environmental degradation, social instability, and economic collapse, posing substantial obstacles to sustainable development.…

Scoping Conflict-Linked Environmental Harm in Southern Lebanon

2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory
Rob Watson and Jay Lindle

Alongside its civilian impact, the intensification of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict after October 2023 had grave consequences for the environment. This post by Rob Watson and…

Environmental Diplomacy: The UAE and Israel before and after October 7

2024 | Institute for National Security Studies
Francesca Fassbender and Udi Sommer

Environmental cooperation was a key component highlighted in the Abraham Accords between Israel and the UAE in 2020. However, it has since received limited attention…

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…

Environmental Peacebuilding: Moving beyond Resolving Violence-Ridden Conflicts to Sustaining Peace

2024 | World Development
Udi Sommer and Francesca Fassbender

The literature on environmental peacebuilding (EP) is focused on overcoming or preventing violent conflict using environmental collaboration (EC), typically on common environmental issues between two…

Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel

2024 | Global Environmental Politics
Rina Kedem, Eran Feitelson, Suleiman Halasah, and Yael Teff-Seker

Mismatches between natural systems and political boundaries often hamper environmental management and conservation efforts. As the number of transboundary environmental cooperation (TEC) initiatives increases, it…

Weathering the Storm: Reducing the Impact of Climate Risks and Environmental Degradation on People Enduring Armed Conflicts

2023 | International Committee of the Red Cross
Catherine-Lune Grayson and Amir Khouzam

Countries enduring armed conflict and violence are particularly vulnerable to growing climate and environmental risks because the adaptive capacity of people, systems and institutions already…

Climate Change, Conflict and (In)Security: Hot War

2023 | Routledge
Timothy Clack, Ziya Meral, and Louise Selisny

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how climate change is impacting conflicts, contention, and competition in the world.

The volume examines how climate change is…

The Role of Environmental Professionals in Post-Conflict Transboundary Cooperation: The Cases of Israel and Jordan

2024 | Environmental Science & Policy
Rina Kedem, Suleiman Halasah, Eran Feitelson, and Tobias Ide

Given the environmental challenges many post-conflict societies face, researchers and policy-makers express growing interest in environmental cooperation and management in the aftermath of political agreements.…

Climate Change and Violent Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

2023 | International Studies Review
Kyungmee Kim and Tània Ferré Garcia

In this analytic essay, the authors conduct a systematic review of scholarly literature published during the period 1989–2022 and explore the climate-conflict pathways in the…

A Blueprint for Addressing Conflicts between Ecotourism and Farming from an Economic Perspective: The Case of Wintering Crane Conservation in the Hula Valley in Israel

2023 | Ecological Economies
Nir Becker, Yanay Farja, Asael Greenfeld, Nonka Markova-Nenova, and Frank Wätzold

Economic studies on human-wildlife conflicts often apply valuation methods to show that biodiversity conservation generates benefits also from an economic point of view. These studies…

From Tel Aviv to Sharm el-Sheiikh: Obstacles and Keys to Environmental Peacebuilding between Israel and Egypt

2022 | Strategic Assessment
Moshe Terdiman, Ofir Winter, Morr Link, and Tal Angert

The Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), held in Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2022, cast a spotlight on Egypt and its commitment to environmental reform.…

Remembering the Red Sea Marine Peace Park

2016 | Marine Transboundary Conservation and Protected Areas
Michelle Portman and Yael Teff-Seker

This chapter aims to share the background of the Marine peace park (MPP) Korea initiative and explores implications and lessons from the experience of the…

MENA Climate Week 2022: Tackling Climate Change in MENA by Improving Regional Cooperation

2022 | Brussels International Center
Clémentine Lienard

For the first time in history, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold a regional climate week in the Middle East…

Climate Change, Violent Conflict and Environmental Peacebuilding: Understanding the Interlinkages

2022 | Development and Peace Foundation
Tobias Ide

In many parts of the world, climate change has severe impacts not only on human security but also on economic and political stability. It increases…

Energy Conflict and Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean

2019 | Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies
Ismail Şahin

Turkey has a strategically valuable position between the energy-producing countries and energy consuming countries. From this perspective, the geography where Turkey is positioned is very…

Light at the End of the Panel: The Gaza Strip and the Interplay between Geopolitical Conflict and Renewable Energy Transition

2022 | New Political Economy
Itay Fischhendler, Lior Herman, and Lioz David

Renewable energy transition is one of the keys to mitigating climate change. While attention has been given to various economic, institutional, technological, and sociocultural barriers…

A Social-Ecological Systems Perspective on the Impacts of Armed Conflict on Water Resources Management: Case Studies from the Middle East

2022 | Geoforum
Juliane Schillinger, Gül Özerol, and Michiel Heldeweg

Armed conflicts disrupt social, environmental and economic processes. This includes water resources management and the provision of water services, with numerous implications for human security…