Peace and Security Operations
Climate Security in Dutch International Climate Policy – From Ambition to Implementation
2023
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Clingendael Institute
Saskia Hollander and Louise van Schaik
Climate security risks are becoming increasingly noticeable. Extreme heat and drought aggravate water and food insecurity in the world’s already most fragile countries. Extreme weather…
Mapping of Climate Security Adaptations at Community Level in the Horn of Africa
2023
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LPI and UNDP
The pathways through which climate and conflict factors are manifested, are determined by the local interplay of exposure to climatic hazards, vulnerability, and the coping…
Progress Report on Supporting Local Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
2014
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UNDP
Henrik F. Larsen
A Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord signed in December 1997 ended the decades-long insurgency, allowing for the recognition of the rights of the peoples…
Landmines and Livelihoods in Afghanistan: Evaluating the Benefits of Mine Action
2013
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Ted Paterson, Barry Pound, and Abdul Q. Ziaee
Mine action started in Afghanistan and, globally, has grown into a billion-dollar endeavour. On most measures, Afghanistan remains the world’s largest mine action programme, which…
Making the Case for Systematic, Gender-Based Analysis in Sustainable Peace Buidling
2016
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Conflict Resolution Quarterly
Dennis Sandole and Ingrid Staroste
In this article, we address protracted, often recurring violent conflict, arguing that the failure to solve entrenched conflicts and build sustainable peace is due in…
Disaster Risk Reduction and Protracted Violent Conflict
2019
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German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Rodrigo Mena, Dorothea Hilhorst, and Katie Peters
This report is part of the project ‘When disasters and conflict collide: uncovering the truth’, a collaboration between the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation…
Disaster Risk Reduction Amidst Armed Conflict: Informal Institutions, Rebel Groups, and Wartime Political Orders
2018
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Disasters
Colin Walsh
Extant research has explored the effect of natural hazards on the risk of armed conflict, but very few studies have examined how conflict dynamics affect…
Efficacy of Informal Peace Committees to Peacebuilding: Evidence from Seke District, Zimbabwe
2017
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African Evaluation Journal
Norman Chivasa
In recent years, informal peace committees have rapidly made their mark either as precautionary or as response mechanisms to particular conflicts. Their main purpose is…
Does Peacebuilding Build Peace? Liberal (Mis)Steps in the Peace Process
1999
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Security Dialogue
Charles-Phillipe David
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa: An Overview
2008
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African Security
W. Andy Knight
This article draws on the experience of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs on the African continent. It explains the link between DDR in Africa…
Avoiding Perplexity: Complexity-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation for UN Peace Operations
2016
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Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Charles Hunt
This chapter explores the potential of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) informed by Complexity theory for UN peace operations. An emphasis on policing recognises that UN…
Challenges of Local Ownership: Understanding the Outcomes of the International Community’s ‘Light Footprint’ Approach to the Nepal Peace Process
2018
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Jasmine-Kim Westendorf
This article investigates whether a ‘light footprint’ approach to peacekeeping and peacebuilding by the international community more effectively addresses local drivers of conflict than the…
Analogue Crisis, Digital Renewal? Current Dilemmas of Peacebuilding
2020
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Globalizations
Oliver P. Richmond and Ioannis Tellidis
The international architecture of peacebuilding and statebuilding, with the United Nations’ efforts central among them, is currently responding to a shift from ‘analogue’ to ‘digital’…
Virtual Launch: Thematic Review on Climate Security and Peacebuilding 2023 [Video]
2023
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UN Peacebuilding
The 2023 Thematic Review on Climate Security and Peacebuilding, commissioned by PBSO in partnership with FAO, UNICEF, Climate Security Mechanism and the UK, and led…
Climate Change and Conflict in the Central Sahel: A Shared Responsibility to Support Local Resilience
2023
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European Centre for Development Policy Management
Maëlle Salzinger and Sophie Desmidt
In the Central Sahel, both the climate and security crises are acute. Strengthening the ability of local communities and actors to respond and adapt to shocks…
India's Lithium Resources Highlight Conflict Risks around Critical Minerals
2023
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Center for Climate and Security
Tom Ellison
On February 9th, the Geological Survey of India announced it had discovered 5.9 million tons of lithium, a metal in high demand for electric vehicle…
Nuclear Security during Armed Conflict: Lessons from Ukraine
2023
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Vitaly Fechenko
The attacks on nuclear installations in Ukraine by the Russian military in 2022 were unprecedented. Nuclear security aims at prevention, detection and response to malicious…
Linking Gender, Climate Change and Security in the Pacific Islands Region: A Systematic Review
2023
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Ambio
Elise Howard
This systematic review aims to address gaps in understanding how concepts of gender, climate change and security are given meaning and linked in empirical scholarship…
Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq: Agriculture, Cultural Practices and Social Cohesion
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Amal Bourhrous, Shivan Fazil, and Dylan O'Driscoll
The atrocities committed by the Islamic State (IS) between 2014 and 2017 left deep scars on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. IS deliberately targeted…
The UN Security Council and Climate Change: Tracking the Agenda after the 2021 Veto
2022
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Security Council Report
On 13 December 2021, the Security Council voted on a draft resolution on the security implications of climate change, proposed by Ireland and Niger. The…
Armed Actors and Environmental Peacebuilding
2022
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US Institute of Peace
Judith Verweijen, Peer Schouten, and Fergus O’Leary Simpson
The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been the site of decades of conflict between the Congolese army and nonstate…
Navigating a Just and Peaceful Transition: Environment of Peace (Part 3)
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Anniek Barnhoorn, Noah Bell, Emilie Broek, Andrea Gadnert, Elise Remling, Jürg A. Staudenmann, Geoffrey Dabelko, Alexis Eberlein, and Daniel Bell-Moran
SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative focuses on managing the risks that are created by two interwoven crises: the darkening security horizon and the immense pressures…
Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Enviroment of Peace (Part 2)
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Karolina Eklöw, Farah Hegazi, Florian Krampe, David Michel, Elizabeth Smith, Cedric de Coning, Joshua Busby, Marc Lanteigne, Corey Pattison, and Caleb Ray
SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative focuses on managing the risks that are created by two interwoven crises: the darkening security horizon and the immense pressures…
Elements of a Planetary Emergency: Environment of Peace (Part 1)
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Dan Smith
SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative focuses on managing the risks that are created by two interwoven crises: the darkening security horizon and the immense pressures…
Considering the Future of Gender and Peace Operations: Strategic Debates and Operational Challenges
2022
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SIPRI
Gretchen Baldwin
The women, peace and security (WPS) agenda in peace operations has had myriad successes as well as setbacks in implementation. The rise of ‘gender-sensitive’ or…
Reviewing the Climate-Security Nexus: The Impacts of Climate Vulnerability on Pastoralist Conflicts in the Unity State Region, South Sudan
2022
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Queen Mary Global Policy Institute
Peter Machieng Chan Gaduel
Climate change is one of the most serious policy issues of our time. Various national governments have now incorporated climate change into their national planning…
Climate Change in the UN Security Council: An Analysis of Discourses and Organizational Trends
2022
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International Studies Perspectives
Cesare M. Scartozzi
The UN Security Council has published about eighty-three thousand documents between 2001 and 2021. This study analyzes this large corpus of text to identify, map,…
"Sustainable Water Agreement - SWA" as a New Approach in the Field of Water Diplomacy
2022
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Research Square
Milad Baripour, Mohammed Sadegh Sadeghian, Mojtaba Ansarian, and Hooma Hajikandi
The only way to create positive interactions for the equitable and optimal distribution of transboundary water resources between stakeholders is Water Diplomacy. Accordingly, identication of…
Co-Benefits through Coordination of Climate Action and Peacebuilding: A System Dynamics Model
2022
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Héctor Morales-Muñoz, Arwen Bailey, Katharina Löhr, Giulia Caroli, Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Ana María LoboGuerrero, Michelle Bonatti, Stefan Siebert, and Augusto Castro-Nuñez
Climate disasters affect human security and development, moreso in fragile and conflict-affected contexts where population’ capacities to cope with climate change are compromised. Responses to…
Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations
2018
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International Peace Institute
Lucile Maertens and Malkit Shoshan
The 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, triggered by the UN mission there, killed more than 9,000 people and affected nearly 807,000. This disastrous case drew…