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Kabul's Water Crisis: An Inflection Point for Action

2025 | Mercy Corps

This report outlines the escalating threats to water access, health, and stability in Afghanistan’s capital. With aquifers nearing depletion, widespread contamination, and funding for WASH…

Preventing Starvation Crimes: Lessons Learned from Tigray

2025 | Stimson Center
Shane Goetz

Despite the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2417 six years ago, conflict continues to drive acute food insecurity around the globe. From Gaza to…

Solar Power and Environmental Peacebuilding in South-Central Somalia

2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Ann-Sophie Bohle and Khiera Tarif

In Somalia, widespread energy poverty and a heavy reliance on conventional energy sources are deeply linked to ongoing conflict dynamics. Dependence on firewood and charcoal…

Building Critical Minerals Cooperation between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Gracelin Baskaran

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries, and in 2024, it attracted the largest volume of mineral…

Armed Conflict Causes Long-Lasting Environmental Harms

2025 | Environment and Security
Florian Krampe, Joakim Kreutz, and Tobias Ide

Armed conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza are very visible reminders of the severe negative impacts that armed conflicts have on the environment. Yet, despite knowledge…

Hidden Depths — Introduction: Water Conflict and Cooperation [Video]

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Doug Weir, Iryna Babanina, and Peter Gleick

In June 2023, Russian troops deliberately destroyed the Kakhovka dam in southeast Ukraine, highlighting an alarming trend: Water resources are facing increasing pressure from armed…

Powering Women Entrepreneurs in Eswatini

2025 | United Nations Development Programme

The Powering Gender Equality Project is a transformative initiative designed to address gender disparities in the energy sector by empowering women and promoting gender equality…

Household Level WASH & Protection Assessment in Gaza (October 2024)

2024 | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The Gaza Strip, particularly Khan Younis area, faces critical challenges in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Protection Services. Prolonged conflict, limited resources, and infrastructural…

Climate Change and Human Security Implications for Humanitarian, Development, Disaster and Climate Risk Management in Mozambique

2024 | Overseas Development Institute and Center for Climate and Security

As part of the project ‘Catalysing cohesive action on climate and security’, ODI, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) and the CGIAR FOCUS Climate…

Environmental Impact of the Conflict in Gaza: Preliminary Assessment of Environmental Impacts

2024 | UNEP

This Preliminary Assessment was prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is an initial response to an official request from the State of…

Thirst for Peace

2024 | PAX

Understanding how wars affect water security is key to developing robust policies and practical solutions to protect civilians and the environment they depend on. In…

Women, Water Resource Management, and Sustainable Development: The Turkey-North Cyprus Water Pipeline Project

2018 | Resources
Emine Eminel Sülün

Women’s role in water resource management is recognized, yet the implementation of methods and strategies to get beyond gender-based obstacles to women’s equal participation in…

Water Poverty in Kabul: A Complex Legacy of War, Environmental Mismanagement, and Climate Change

2024 | Legal Service India
Qadriya Hashimi, Adela Stanikzai, Hasina Rassuli, Nasima Esa Zada, Bahara Kaihan, and Palwasha Muhammadi

When we turn on the television, scroll through social media, or read the latest headlines in the newspaper, one theme that consistently emerges in discussions…

Rapid Assessment--UNDP/PAPP's Emergency Response to Solid Waste Management

2024 | UNDP Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People

This assessment indicates that the solid waste management system in Gaza has collapsed. There is no access to the major landfills, and waste accumulates at…

Food Insecurity in East Africa: An Integrated Strategy to Address Climate Change Impact and Violence Conflict

2024 | Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
Yadeta Bedasa and Kumala Deksisa

The East of Africa is the least developed region, the most food insecure and the most difficult development challenges in the world. The article review…

Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan: Gaps in National Policy and Its Security Implications

2024 | Global Policy
Srinjoy Bose, Maxim Mancino, and Dahlia Simangan

While previous studies underscore the importance of climate-sensitive approaches to peacebuilding, the relationship between ecosystem services and peace and security, especially at the local level,…

Transforming Water Security through Women's Leadership

2024 | FP Analytics

Today, more than two billion people experience water scarcity in some form. Without intervention, that figure could increase to 3.2 billion people within two decades.…

Russian Gas and the Fight for the Italian Right: Implications of Meloni's and Salvini's Russian Energy Policy in the 2024 EU Parliamentary Elections

2024 | CeSPI - Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale
Tyler Leonard

On 8 and 9 June 2024, the Italian public will elect its tenth delegation to the European Union (EU) Parliament. Based on public opinion polls,…

Complementary Ways of Seeing “the Nature”: Integrating Varieties of Knowledge Practices in the Management of Local Environmental Conflicts in Colombia

2024 | Environment and Security
Monica Amador-Jimienez, Pablo A. Ramos Baron, and Solveig Richter

The complex pathways of armed conflict and its consequences for ecosystem transformations and environmental change have been well established in the literature. However, despite recent…

Toward Indigenous Methodologies and Environmental Peacebuilding: A Study on Water Projects in Nepal

2024 | Environment and Security
Dhirendra Nalbo

Environmental peacebuilding, both in research and practice, demonstrates the potential of preventing, minimizing, and mitigating conflict, particularly in postwar societies. However, the complexities of the…

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…

Targeting Libya’s Rentier Economy: The Politics of Energy, Water, and Infrastructural Decay

2023 | Environment and Security
Erika Weinthal and Jeannie Sowers

Libya’s fossil fuel wealth has dominated its political economy and state institutions since the 1960s and paid for large-scale, centralized water and energy infrastructures. Since…

Assessing the Influence of Landscape Conservation and Protected Areas on Social Wellbeing Using Random Forest Machine Learning

2024 | Nature
Joshua Fisher, Summer Allen, Greg Yetman, and Linda Pistolesi

The urgency of interconnected social-ecological dilemmas such as rapid biodiversity loss, habitat loss and fragmentation, and the escalating climate crisis have led to increased calls…

Business Responsibility Towards the Environment and Human Rights in Syria

2023 | Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and Syrian Legal Development Programme

Over a decade of war has ravaged Syria, leaving behind a fractured nation and crumbling infrastructure. While the humanitarian crisis dominates headlines, another threat simmers…

Navigating Public Health in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Charting a Path Forward

2023 | Health and Human Rights Journal
William C. Lieber, Faraan O. Rahim, Bhav Jain, Devesh Shah, and Mohammad Z. Sahloul

In the wake of the devastating attack by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, which resulted in over 1,200 Israeli deaths and the capture…

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…