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Navigating Climate, Conflict, and Migration: Insights from Ethiopia and the East and Horn of Africa

2025 | International Organization for Migration
Victor Villa, Brenda Chepngetich, Christopher Zapp, and Melissa Branca Carvalho Magalhaes

This report examines the intricate relationship between climate, human security and migration in Ethiopia and the broader East and Horn of Africa region, with the…

Egypt's Choices on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

2025 | E-International Relations
Hamdy A. Hassan

A new chapter in the history of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began with its official inauguration on September 9, 2025. The outlines of…

Association Between Food Insecurity and Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Gendered Asset Policies

2025 | BMJ Global Health
Faith Miller, Jenevieve Mannell, Laura Brown, Andrew Gibbs, and Abigail Hatcher

Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects an estimated 27% of women globally, with consequences spanning mental, physical and societal well-being. Previous research identifies individual and relational…

Impact of the Tigray War on Water Infrastructures and Essential Hydrosystems in Selected Battle Corridors

2025 | Water
Gebremedhin Berhane, Tesfamichael Gebreyohannes, Miruts Hagos, Abdelwassie Huessien, Aregawi Gebrekirstos, Kaleab A. Abera, Thomas Hermans, and Kristine Walraevens

Armed conflicts continue to severely impact human populations and essential infrastructure, particularly water supply systems. This study examines the Yechilla area, a high-intensity battle corridor…

When Bombs Turn the Taps Off: The Impact of Conflict on Water Infrastructure in Lebanon

2025 | Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight, and Oxfam

Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight and Oxfam have worked collectively to document the impact of the escalation of conflict in Lebanon on water infrastructure since…

Ecocide’s Evolving Relationship with War

2025 | Environment and Security
Racheal Killean

This article examines the evolving relationship between ecocide and the regulation of war, tracing its conceptual development from a war crime to a broader environmental…

The Problem of Social Justice in Environmental Peacebuilding: Between Thin and Thick Justice in Liberia

2025 | Environment and Security
Jacobo Grajales, Kou Gbaintor Johnson, and Hueward Neal

Recent research on environmental peacebuilding has encouraged scholars to move away from technocratic definitions of peace and to pay greater attention to how peacebuilding policies…

The Effectiveness of Joint Basin Institutions in Managing International Water Disputes

2025 | Environment and Security
Neda Zawahri, Susanne Schmeier, and Melissa McCracken

While cooperative interaction so far outnumbers conflictive ones between states sharing transboundary water resources, the trend of interstate disputes is on the rise due to…

The Many Voices of Environmental Cooperation: A Relational Analysis of 30 Years of Environmental Peacebuilding over Shared Waters in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine

2025 | Environment and Security
Laura E. R. Peters, Ken Conca, Aaron T. Wolf, Ari Lippi, and Jamon Van Den Hoek

Environmental cooperation is theorized to contribute to peacebuilding, but the complexity of how this linkage is realized for the people involved remains out of view.…

Murky Waters of War: Toward a Clearer Conceptualization of Water as a Weapon

2025 | Environment and Security
Charlotte Grech-Madin

Water has long presented a potent means to harm and influence others in war. All states, and many non-state actors, possess water supply and/or storage…

The Linkages between Water Security, Conflict, Participation, and Governance in Smallholder Irrigation Schemes in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling Approach

2025 | Frontiers
Lerato Phali, Denver Naidoo, and Maxwell Mudhara

The increasing competition for water resources leads to conflict, as utility-maximizing farmers aim to improve their productivity to enhance food security and economic well-being. Conflicts…

Sudan: Women, Food Insecurity, and Famine Risk in Sudan, Gender Snapshot

2025 | UN Women
UN Women

This fact sheet, developed by the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group Sudan, highlights key gendered trends from World Food Programme Quarter 1 2025…

Resurgence of Cholera in Kosti City, Sudan: Impact of Armed Conflict and Water Supply Disruption

2025 | IJID Regions
Ayman Azhary, Nooh Mohamed Hajhamed, Ahmed Noralla Altyip, Elham Elamin, Eman Taha Osman Ali, Ayman Ahmed, and Emmanuel Edwar Siddig

This study assesses the magnitude and epidemiological characteristics of the recent cholera resurgence in Kosti City, Sudan, amid ongoing armed conflict and water supply disruptions.

This…

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Resilient Healthcare Systems: Addressing Medicine and Public Health Challenges in Conflict Zones

2025 | Medicine
Chinyere N. Ugwu Meng, Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu, Esther Ugo Alum, Val Hyginus Udoka Eze, Mariam Basajj, Jovita Nnenna Ugwu, Fabian C. Ogenyi Beng, Regina Idu Ejemot-Nwadiaro, Michael Ben Okon MSc, Simeon Ikechukwu Egba, and Daniel Ejim Uti

This review explores the integration of sustainable development goals (SDGs) into healthcare organizations in conflict zones, with a specific focus on emergent models aimed at…

From Relief to Resilience: Strengthening Food Security in Conflict

2025 | International Committee of the Red Cross

Millions of people all over the world face the daily challenge of securing enough food, a crisis that demands urgent action and support. People who…

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…