Policy Briefs

Recommendations for Strengthening Water Security, Peace, and Gender Inclusion Ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference

2026 | Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Melanne Verveer, Shaima Gargash, Antti Rautavaar, Nelson Gomonda, Nompumelelo Ntshalintshali-Motsa, Foman Forough, Elizabeth A. Koch, and Tamara Bah

This policy paper summarizes key insights and recommendations for strengthening water security through a Women, Peace and Security (WPS) lens ahead of the 2026 UN…

Climate Security, Migration and Fragility

2026 | European Commission
Teresa Talò

This brief examines how climate change interacts with conflict, fragility and human mobility. Evidence shows that climate change rarely acts as a direct cause of…

Converging Crises and Potential Opportunities: Gender, Climate, Sanitation, and Water

2025 | Sanitation and Water for All
Sanitation and Water for All

Climate change is intensifying water and sanitation b challenges with disproportionate impacts on women and girls, especially in least developed countries, and missed opportunities to…

A Distant Problem No Longer: How Climate Change is Fuelling Crime and Fraying Trust Across Europe

2025 | FES Regional Office for International Cooperation
Peter Schwartzstein and Sabrina Kaschowitz

The more the world warms, the more unstable many regions are becoming. Large parts of the planet are already suffering the consequences. But while there has…

Natural Resource Programming in Post-Conflict Situations

2014
David Jensen, Ilona Coyle, Alec Crawford, Carl Bruch, Adam Harris

This is the eighth in a series of policy briefs on post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. This brief highlights strategies used by natural resource…

Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

2014
David Jensen, Alec Crawford, Carl Bruch

This is the fourth in a series of policy briefs on post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management; it draws upon findings from Water and Post-Conflict…

High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

2013
Päivi Lujala, Siri Aas Rustad, David Jensen, Alec Crawford, Peter Whitten, Ilona Coyle, Carl Bruch

This is the first in a series of policy briefs on post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resources management; it draws upon findings from High-Value Natural Resources…

Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

2013
David Jensen, Alec Crawford, Peter Whitten, Carl Bruch

This is the third in a series of policy briefs on post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resources management; it summarizes findings from Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding,…

Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

2013
David Jensen, Peter Whitten, Ilona Coyle, Carl Bruch

This policy brief is the second in a series of peacebuilding and natural resources policy briefs; it summarizes findings from Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources…