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Issue #307 – Oct 14, 2025 |
Announcements
October 11, 2025
October 8, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to present awards to leaders, practitioners, and researchers from our community.
September 30, 2025
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EventsFor more upcoming events on environmental peacebuilding, please visit our online calendar of events.
November 4, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association's Arts Initiative
Conference: Environmental Citizen Science in Conflict Zones for Accountability and Empowerment
October 24, 2025
Conflict and Environment Observatory
October 21, 2025
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
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LibraryIn the last two weeks, 14 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. Here is a sampling of the new additions:
October 14, 2025 | Katongo Seyuba and Florian Krampe
The Environment, Conflict, and Peace in Sudan: From Response to Recovery
October 14, 2025
The 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report
October 14, 2025
October 14, 2025 | Halvard Buhaug and Nina von Uexkull
The Rogun Dam Project: Evolution from Conflict to Cooperation between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
October 14, 2025 | Kazimierz Salewicz and Mikiyasu Nakayama
October 14, 2025
October 14, 2025 | Hector Morales Munoz, Nina Schmelzer, Alina Viehoff, Benjamin Pohl, and Juanita Velez
The Critical Minerals Conundrum: What You Should Know
October 8, 2025 | Serena Li and Ke Wang
October 8, 2025
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JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. DRC: Local Government Officer (Fixed-Term) October 14, 2025 | One Acre Fund Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5. 5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive.Rwanda: Research & Seed Production Senior Supervisor (Fixed-Term) October 14, 2025 | One Acre Fund Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5. 5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive.Israel/Palestine: Programme Evaluation of Forum ZFD Palestine and Israel Regional Programme October 14, 2025 | Pro Peace (Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V.) Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst eV (forumZFD) is a non-profit peacebuilding organization with its Head Office in Cologne, Germany, which supports people involved in violent conflicts on the path to peace and strives to help… |
International NewsIn the last two weeks, 21 international news items on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. The following is a sampling:
October 13, 2025
Iraq: Iraq’s 2025 Gas Pivot: Can Baghdad Turn Flares into Fuel?
October 10, 2025
Liberia: A Cacao Rush Drives ‘Alarming’ Deforestation in Liberia
October 10, 2025 | Ashoka Mukpo
Afghanistan: Afghan Farmers Battle Drought amid Fragile Peace
October 8, 2025
Colombia: Petro’s Agrarian Reform Drives Surge in Colombia’s Food Production
October 6, 2025 | Josep Freixes
Sudan/South Sudan: Juba, Port Sudan Agree to Protect Oil Facilities, Pipeline Stations
October 6, 2025
Liberia: Unmasking Waste and Abuse of Forest Resources in Liberia: The Case of Abandoned Logs
October 6, 2025 | Junior B. Kesselee
Afghanistan/Iran: Taliban Express Readiness to Settle Water Dispute with Iran
October 5, 2025
DRC: The Resource War: How Minerals Fuel the Conflict in Congo
October 4, 2025 | Dragos Alexandru Ionita
Liberia: FAO Calls for Clearer Land and Forest Rights in Liberia
October 1, 2025 | Francis G. Boayue
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Blogs & OpinionIn the last two weeks, 6 blogs & opinion pieces on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. Can Colombia Embrace Clean Energy without Damaging the Amazon? October 13, 2025 | Christina Noriega At the foot of the Andes, a Canadian firm has plans for one of the country’s biggest copper mines, but many say the carbon-rich forests and clean rivers are too high a price…Resource Curse: Why Capitalizing on the Resources Is Actually the Exception? October 13, 2025 | Nadhem Mahmoudi This phenomenon refers to the paradox of countries with vast natural or mineral resources who fail to translate those resources into economic prosperity.The Violence of Hunger: The 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report October 3, 2025 | Eugene Cho This summer, the 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report gave us the most current look at hunger across the globe.Applying a National Security Lens to the International Court’s Climate Change Opinion October 2, 2025 | Danielle Ireland-Piper Climate change is widely recognised as a national security risk. Successive defence planning strategies have identified climate change as such.Pills and Pollution: Captagon Production in Syria October 1, 2025 | Leon Moreland Captagon is the street name for fenethylline, a synthetic stimulant created by chemically bonding amphetamine, a powerful central nervous system stimulant, with theophylline, a drug similar to caffeine commonly used to treat respiratory…The Nexus of Conflict, Mining, and Violence in Eastern DRC September 30, 2025 | Ashley Nunes After decades of bloodshed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Félix Tshisekedi recently demanded the country’s parliament and the international community recognize the massacres in the provinces of North Kivu, South… |
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Compiled by Buket Altınçelep, Maria Camilla Cadonici, Karishma Goswami, Amelie L'Henaff, Liz Hessami, Madeleine Loll, Kathleen McLean, Avery Thau, and Milen Yishak |
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