Peace and Security Operations

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Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling Gender Equality with Tradition in Northern Uganda

2025 | Oxfam
Alexandra Foote

The Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda faces a tension in its post-conflict period: reconciling local peacebuilding approaches with national and international standards of gender equality.…

United Nations Bureaucracies and Knowledge Creation on Women, Peacebuilding, and Natural Resources (chapter in "Handbook on Gender and Security")

2025 | Handbook on Gender and Security
Natalia Dalmer

This chapter examines the concerted efforts of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women…

Climate Change and Gender-based Violence in Colombia: Peacebuilding, Feminism and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace

2025 | Handbook on Gender and Security
Natalia Urzola and María Paula González Espinel

Climate change's devastating effects exacerbate pre-existing conditions of vulnerability, including gender-based violence. For historically marginalized groups in Colombia (i.e., Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, peasants, women,…

Climate Change Exacerbated Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Role of the Feminist Foreign Policy

2024 | Environmental Policy and Law
Moumita Manda

Feminist foreign policy (FFP) ensures the representation and participation of women both nationally and internationally. Initially, it aimed to focus on some special areas relating…

Climate, Peace, and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Katongo Seyuba

Local communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) face the combined challenge of climate change and violent conflict, which exacerbates vulnerabilities, poverty, displacement and human insecurity. This SIPRI Insights Paper examines…

NATO and Climate Change

2025 | Defence Studies
Rita Floyd

In recent years climate change has become an issue for NATO. Notably, climate change features prominently in the 2022 Strategic Concept. It was not always…

Peace, Propaganda, and Natural Resources: The Geoeconomics of Rwandan Peacekeeping in Mozambique and Implications for European and African Regionalism Projects

2023 | Peace Review
Kaitlyn Rabe

Since the end of the genocide in Rwanda, the small nation has solidified its reputation as an economic powerhouse among African countries, as well as…

Community Dialogue as a Peacebuilding Tool: Insights From Environmental Dialogue in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq

2024 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Amal Bourhrous

This SIPRI Research Policy Paper examines the linkages between climate and environmental issues and the dynamics of peace and conflict in the Nineveh Plains of…

Advancing the International Environment, Peace and Security Agenda

2025 | PAX
Elliot Mur, Brittany Roser, and Christina Parandii

The international community has so far been unable to keep pace with the increasing scale, speed, and complexity of environmental and climate risks facing humanity.…

De-escalation and Diplomacy: Disasters as Drivers of Reduced Conflict Risks in the Indo-Pacific

2025 | Australian Journal of International Affairs
Tobias Ide, Ali Hayes, Indah Larasati, and Chloe Canavan

Interest in the impact of disasters on conflict risks is burgeoning. This is particularly the case for the Indo-Pacific region, which is highly vulnerable to…

Navigating Policy Coherence for Peacebuilding and Environmental Sustainability in Colombia [Video]

2024 | CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies

How do we align policies to support both peacebuilding and environmental sustainability? This compelling question was at the heart of a recent webinar hosted by…

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…

Attacks on Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure: Harm to the Civilian Population

2024 | Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Between 22 March and 31 August 2024, the Russian Federation armed forces launched nine waves of long-range and large-scale coordinated attacks on Ukraine’s electric power…

10 Entry Points for Environmental Peacebuilding in Mindanao, Philippines

2024 | CGIAR
Leonardo Medina, Alessandra Vaselli, Adam Savelli, and Mark Anthony Torres

Environmental peacebuilding entails a broad range of theories and practices around the management of environmental issues that integrate goals to build more just and peaceful…

Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict—50 Years of Effort, and No End in Sight

2023 | Environment and Security
Michael Bothe

The debate about environmental protection in relation to armed conflict began around 1970 due to the meeting of two political movements: on the one hand,…

Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes

2024 | Pacific Forum International
Lily Schlieman, Maryruth Belsey Priebe, Charity Borg, Anny Barlow, and Tevvi Bullock

The Coral Triangle is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity and provides food security to over 130 million people living in and around the region.…

An Interview with NATO’s Paul Rushton on the Alliance’s Climate Security Efforts

2024 | New Security Beat
Lauren Herzer Risi

When senior officials from 32 countries meet in Washington, DC next week for the NATO Summit, deterrence and defense, as well as Ukraine and global…

The Siege of Gaza’s Water

2024 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Natasha Hall, Anita Kirschenbaum, and David Michel

On October 9, in response to the October 7 assault by Hamas militants, Israel’s defense minister ordered a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip, including…

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 findings of an extensive consultation on environmental peacemaking conducted across nine southern and northern governorates of Yemen. The consultation reached out…

On Dialogue and Beyond: Positive Environmental Peacebuilding in Palestine

2024 | Journal of Social Encounters
Elsa Barron

In Palestine, environmental management has been used as a tool of military occupation and oppression. Yet even within that context, many community-based organizations have established…

Environmental Peacebuilding: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

2024 | Journal of Social Encounters
Ken Conca

The field of environmental peacebuilding emerged as a counter to the idea that violent conflict was an inevitable byproduct of environmental change. Two decades ago,…

When Are Peacekeepers "Green"?

2024 | Environment and Security
Tobias Böhmelt

Although the focus of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations (PKOs) remains peace and security, missions may also have an environmental orientation. Such an emphasis is…

The Scars beyond Bullets: Recognizing the Environmental Toll of War

2024 | International Journal of Science and Research Archive
Titilayo Aishat Otukoya

Warfare, throughout history, has not only shaped geopolitical landscapes but has left an indelible mark on the environment. The unintended consequences of armed conflicts extend…

Interview with Catherine Wong, Global Team Leader for Climate and Security Risk at the UNDP

2024 | Planetary Security Initiative

On 28 November, PSI spoke to Catherine Wong, who serves as global team leader for Climate and Security Risk and the United Nations Development Programme…

Beyond Greenwashing: Prioritizing Environmental Justice in Conflict-Affected Settings

2023 | Evironment and Security
Ambreen Tour Ben-Shmuel and Silja Halle

Building on recent studies that call for further attention to marginalized communities at the intersection of environment, climate action, and peacebuilding initiatives, this article recommends…

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Democratic Republic of the Congo

2023 | Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Thor Olav Iversen, Ingvild Brodtkorb, Katongo Seyuba, Anne Funnemark, Kheira Tarif, Asha Ali, Kyungmee Kim, and Minoo Koefoed

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is faced with a confluence of climate change, environmental degradation, resource exploitation and conflict dynamics that is exacerbating…

Toward the Remote Monitoring of Armed Conflicts

2023 | PNAS Nexus
Valerie Sticher, Jan D. Wegner, and Birke Pfeifle

The war in Ukraine has pushed the role of satellite imagery in armed conflicts into the spotlight. For a long time, satellite images were primarily…

Barking up the Tree Wrongly? How National Security Strategies Frame Climate and Other Environmental Change as Security Issues

2023 | Political Geography
Anselm Vogler

The right framing of climate and other environmental change is crucial to guide policy responses towards preventing human suffering, displacement, and violent conflict. This study…

Indigenous Environmental Perspectives: Challenging the Oceanic Security State

2023 | Sage Journals Security Dialogue
Tiara R. Na'puti and Sylvia C. Frain

This article centers Indigenous epistemologies to critique the United States oceanic security state, a modality of militarization and blue-washing conservation that extends beyond land borders…

The Contribution of the UN Security Council to Environmental Peacebuilding (chapter in "Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding")

2023 | Edward Elgar
Daniella Dam-de Jong

This chapter examines the position of the UN Security Council within the institutional framework on environmental peacebuilding. It starts with an analysis of the UN's…