Palestine-Israel
Environmental Defenders: Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory
2021
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Routledge
Mary Menton and Philippe Le Billon
This book is about environmental defenders and the violence they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment. Between 2002 and 2019, at…
Yarmouk, Jordan, and Disi Basins: Examining the Impact of the Discourse of Water Scarcity in Jordan on Transboundary Water Governance
2018
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Mediterranean Politics
Hussam Hussein
Extensive literature has shown the impact of water scarcity discourses on national policies, however the impact of water scarcity discourses on transboundary water governance has…
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…
Environment and Conflict Alert - Gaza
2021
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PAX
The reverberating effects of the military campaign with heavy explosive weapons in Gaza will have long term implications on the health and livelihoods of Palestinians…
Water under Fire: Attacks on Water and Sanitation Services in Armed Conflict and the Impacts on Children
2021
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UNICEF
Leslie Morris-Iveson, Ernesto Granillo, and Sofie Grundin
Children rely on safe and sufficient water and sanitation for their survival and development. When their human rights to safe water and sanitation are denied,…
Palestinian Olive Trees: An Environmental Tragedy or a Tragedy of the Conflict?
2021
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This Week in Palestine
Amira Gabarin
Olive trees have a special place in the heart of every Palestinian. Not only do they provide an economic lifeline for the more than 80,000…
Revisiting the Contested Role of Natural Resources in Violent Conflict Risk through Machine Learning
2020
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Sustainability
Marie K. Schellens and Salim Belyazid
The integrated character of the sustainable development goals in Agenda 2030, as well as research in environmental security, flag that sustainable peace requires sustainable and…
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…
The Great Rift Valley
2020
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Columbia University
Kate Orff, Geeta Mehta, Thaddeus Pawlowski, Lee Altman, Dilip Da Cunha, Julia Watson, Adriana Chavez, and Fitsum Gelaye
The Great Rift Valley marks a global transect along geological fault lines. It’s an active space of movement and exchange spanning watery crevices and fertile…
State of Environment and Outlook Report for the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2020
2020
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UN Environment Program
This report provides an overview of the current state of the environment in the occupied Palestinian territory. Building on earlier work by the United Nations…
State of Environment and Outlook Report for the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2020
2020
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UN Environment Programme
This report provides an overview of the current state of the environment in the occupied Palestinian territory. Building on earlier work by the United Nations…
What Constitutes an Equitable Water Share? A Reassessment of Equitable Apportionment in the Jordan-Israel Water Agreement 25 Years Later
2019
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Water Policy
Samer Talozi, Amelia Altz-Stamm, Hussam Hussein, and Peter Reich
The water agreement between Jordan and Israel, created as part of their peace treaty in 1994, set out detailed allocations terms to which both countries…
Sakhnin: Portrait of an Environmental Peace Project in Israel
2009
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Coolvillehub
Jan Martin Bang
Environmental Peacemaking and Environmental Peacebuilding in International Politics
2019
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CLISEC Working Paper
Tobias Ide
This working papers summarises the main results of the author's habilitation thesis on environmental peacebuilding and environmental peacemaking. It locates the topic in wider public…
ILC Draft Principles on the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts (Commentary)
2019
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Al-Haq
Al-Haq welcomes the International Law Commission (ILC) adoption of Draft Principles on the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts (Draft Principles) on…
Oil, the Arab-Israel Dispute, and the Industrial World: Horizons of Crisis
2019
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Routledge
J.C. Hurewitz
One of the most stubborn global problems in the last quarter of the twentieth century, a problem that affects the rich states and the poor,…
A Confluence of Crises: On Water, Climate, and Security in the Middle East and North Africa
2019
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Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute
Johan Schaar
The Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) faces simultaneous crises of security, water scarcity and climate change. They are interlinked— the water crisis is…
Biodiversity Conservation and Armed Conflict: A Warfare Ecology Perspective
2018
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Thor Hanson
The activities involved in preparing for, executing, and recovering from armed conflict are globally pervasive and consequential, with significant impacts on natural systems. Effects on…
Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential
2013
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UN Environment, UNDP, UN Women, and UN Peacebuilding Support Office
Silja Halle, Adrienne Stork and Cassidy Travis
This report focuses on the relationship between women and natural resources in conflict-affected settings, and discusses how the management of natural resources can be used…
Mujeres y Recursos Naturales: Liberando el Potencial Para la Consolidacion de la Paz
2013
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UN Environment, UNDP, UN Women, and UN Peacebuilding Support Office
Las diversas experiencias de las mujeres en tiempos de conflicto tienen poderosas implicaciones para la consolidación de la paz. Su capacidad para recuperarse del conflicto…
Conflict over Oil and Gas in the Mediterranean: Israeli Expansionism in Lebanon
2019
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Arab Studies Quarterly
Ibrahim G. Aoudé
This article will discuss Israeli machinations to covet substantial areas of the Lebanese maritime exclusive economic zone, while knowing full well that international law has…
Empowering Women in Water Diplomacy: A Basic Mapping of the Challenges in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan
2019
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Journal of Hydrology
Natasha Carmi, Mey Alsayegh, and Maysoon Zoubi
Until now, limited attention has been afforded to the role of, and challenges faced by, women involved in water diplomacy. In addition to research being…
Maintaining a Collaborative Environment between Turkey and Israel on the Issue of Energy Resources: The Crisis Management Role of the United States
2019
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Economic Dynamics of Global Energy Geopolitics
Ahmet Sözen and Devrim Şahin
The dominant powers in world energy geopolitics have radically changed in last couple of decades due to the increased demand for natural energy resources (i.e.,…
The Ecovillage as a Regenerative Peacebuilding Agent: Tamera - Healing Biotope I and the "Global Campus" in the West Bank
2018
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P2P Foundation
Ana Margarida Esteves
This article explores the nature of the agency of ecovillages in regenerative peacebuilding through the analysis of the “Global Campus”, a program launched by the…
Drought and Cooperation in a Conflict Prone Area: Bedouin Herders and Jewish Farmers in Israel's Northern Negev, 1957–1963
2016
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Political Geography
Amit Tubi and Eran Feitelson
Climate change is increasingly considered a security problem by academics and politicians alike. Although research is challenging such neo-Malthusian views, it focuses on conflict, or…
Environment, Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in the Middle East: Examining Peace Park Proposals along Israeli - Arab Borders
2016
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Tel Aviv University's Porter Schoolof Environmental Studies
Sahar Sadeh
The following research presents an analysis of the environment and peace nexus in the Middle East as manifested in repeated initiatives for peace parks along…
Climate Change—A Global Security and Humanitarian Challenge
2018
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European Security and Defence Union Journal
The latest issue of the European Security and Defence Union Journal looks into the security challenges brought by climate-related impacts. The issue addresses climate change…
Environmental Peacebuilding in the Middle East (Chapter in Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding)
2018
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Routledge
Tobias Ide, Vakur Sümer, and Larissa M. Aldehoff
The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of a large body of research examining the linkage between environmental scarcity, violent conflict, and cooperation. However,…
Depoliticisation, Water, and Environmental Peacebuilding (Chapter in Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding)
2018
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Routledge
Karin Aggestam
The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of a large body of research examining the linkage between environmental scarcity, violent conflict, and cooperation. However,…
Environmental Change and Violent Conflict
1993
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Scientific American
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Jeffrey H. Boutwell, and George W. Rathjens
Growing scarcities of renewable resources can contribute to social instability and civil strife.