Peace Agreements

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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…


The Nature of Peace: Trajectories of Environmental Peacebuilding between Dominant Narratives and Power Relations

2025 | Ecology and Society
Fariborz Zelli and Torsten Krause

Peacebuilding initiatives play an important role in the reconstruction of political, economic, and social conditions after internal armed conflicts. If these initiatives also account for…


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,…


Governing after FARC: Environmental Peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia

2025 | Peasant Studies
Mckenzie F. Johnson, Luz A. Rodriguez, and Manuela Quijano Hoyos

We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by…


Twelve Research Agendas for Advancing the Peace-Sustainability Nexus

2025 | 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…


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…


Toward an International Grundnorm for Climate Change: Ensuring Sustainability Away from the Traditional Notion of Security

2025 | Sustainability
Sarkawt Jalil

Climate change has been considered a critical challenge that transcends traditional notions of security, demanding a shift in perspective toward environmental sustainability. Historically, security has…


Community Voices on Climate, Peace, and Security: Mindanao, Philippines

2024 | CGIAR
Leonardo Medina, Adam Savelli, Vanessa Souza de Matos, Setenay Kizilkaya, Mark Anthony Torres, Jayrold Arcede, Stéphanie Jaquet, Jon Hellin, Stefan Sieber, Michelle Bonatti, and Grazia Pacillo

This Community Voices on Climate, Peace and Security series report presents the results of a participatory appraisal conducted with residents of three localities across Mindanao,…


Local Climate Change Policy and Rural Development in Colombia's Post-Peace Agreements Context

2022 | International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
Fanny Howland

This study provides information on the gap between policy discourse and policy implementation of climate change (CC) management and peace governance. Following international commitments, the…


Public Preferences of Environmental Peacebuilding: The Case of Forest Conservation Projects in Colombia

2024 | Environment and Security
Dominique Schmid and Martijn C. Vlaskamp

To date, no studies have examined the nationwide support for environmental peacebuilding projects in post-conflict countries, that is, projects that seek to use the management…


Governing after FARC: Environmental Peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia

2024 | Journal of Peasant Studies
McKenzie F. Johnson, Luz A. Rodríguez, and Manuela Quijano Hoyos

The authors examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized…


Indigenous Rituals, Panacea for Peace Building, Conflict Management and National Development in Africa

2024 | Indigenous People - Traditional Practices and Modern Development
Ude Bassey Obeten

Africa continent has a long and complex history and a sociocultural ecosystem imbued with ritual practices that make it particularistic and distinct from the rest…


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…


Post-Conflict Restitution of Customary Land: Guidelines and Trajectories of Change

2023 | 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…


Decolonizing Peacebuilding Research in Africa through Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Experience of Igbo-Speaking Group of Niger-Delta Region, Nigeria (chapter in "Decolonizing Peace and Conflict Studies through Indigenous Research")

2022 | Springer
Ferbinand O. Ottoh

This chapter examines the decolonization of peacebuilding research in Africa through Indigenous knowledge systems using the Igbo-speaking group of the Niger-Delta region, Nigeria as a…


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.…


The Global-Capitalist Elephant in the Room: How Resilient Peacebuilding Hinders Substantive Transformation and Undermines Long-Term Peace Prospects

2023 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Paulina Budny, and Roland Kostić

This article reviews critical responses to recent academic debates on resilience and peacebuilding, with a focus on approaches that question the underlying logics of resilient…


‘Water Wars’: Strategic Implications of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

2023 | Conflict, Security, and Development
Ron Matthews and Vlado Vivoda

The construction of Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam is a fait accompli. By 2022, around 90 per cent of its construction had been completed, but only two…


Ukraine, the Environment and Negotiating Peace

2023 | Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Drew Marcantonio

Since the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian civil society has spontaneously and courageously organized to counter the military occupation through hundreds…


Four Climate Frontiers: How Mediators Can Make Peace and Help Protect the Planet

2023 | Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Sebastian Kratzer

For the peace mediation sector, four “frontiers” lie ahead if we hope to help prevent the worst outcomes of climate change and environmental degradation. This…


To Repair or Not to Repair: What Are the Questions? (chapter in "Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding")

2023 | Elgar
Giulia Pinzauti and Merryl Lawry-White

This chapter is structured as follows: Section 2 examines the intersection between reparation for environmental damage and peacebuilding, including the synergies and tensions between them. Section…


Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding

2023 | Elgar
Daniëlla Dam-de Jong and Britta Sjöstedt

While there is an extensive body of international law governing armed conflicts, no coherent legal framework exists for post-conflict situations. The current Research Handbook on…


Conceptualizing Resilience within Environmental Peacebuilding

2023 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
McKenzie F. Johnson, Tobias Ide, and Jesann Gonzalez Cruz

Environmental peacebuilding integrates sustainable natural resource management into peacebuilding processes to promote peace and stability. Environmental peacebuilding scholars increasingly view resilience as an important concept.…


War in Ukraine: The Case for Environmental Peacebuilding and Reparations

2023 | Journal of the British Academy
Nataliia Slobodian

Russia’s current large-scale unprovoked invasion of Ukraine demonstrates that the environment matters, even though it is considered a secondary issue during conflicts. The war has dire…


Environmental Cooperation between Israel and Its Neighbors [Video]

2023 | University of California, Los Angeles
Alon Tal and Dov Waxman

The Middle East is considered a “climate hot spot," which is already showing extreme weather conditions and ecological damage, but this difficult reality also offers…


Wicked Problems in Peacebuilding and Statebuilding: Making Progress in Measuring Progress Through the New Deal

2013 | Global Governance
Erin McCandless

Peacebuilding and its relatively new partner in international policy discourse and practice—statebuilding—are moving in increasingly larger circles with the recognition that business cannot be done…


Practical Approaches to Theories of Change in Conflict, Security, and Justice Programmes

2013 | UKAID
Vanessa Corlazzoli and Jonathan White

The goal of this document is to improve the effectiveness of DFID programmes and the measurement of their impacts by providing DFID Advisers with the…


Women Who Do Not Migrate: Intersectionality, Social Relations, and Participation in Western Nepal

2023 | World Development
Gitta Shrestha, Emily L. Pakhtigian, and Marc Jeuland

Migration impacts left-behind populations, disrupting established norms of social interaction, participation, and inclusion. In western Nepal, labour migration is common among young men, with implications…


Climate Peacebuilding: A Reset for Major Power Relations?

2023 | Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
Mihaela Papa

The international community has been facing the threat of nuclear war and, up to this point, has failed to meet universally embraced climate and sustainability…


Sowing Peace: Violence and Agrobiodiveristy in the Colombian Amazon

2022 | Geoforum
Kristina Van Dexter and Micah Ingalls

This article investigates how violence is intertwined with agrobiodiversity and the implications for “territorial peace” in Colombia. Our investigation is situated within the context of…