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Issue #180 – Dec 1, 2020 |
AnnouncementsNovember 30, 2020 | Environmental Law Institute, Global Green Growth Institute, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, UNDP, Externado de Colombia University, and Duke University’s Center for International and Global Studies and Nicholas School of the Environment Abstracts are sought for presentations and posters to be delivered at a conference and policy dialogue on “Environmental Governance for Peace in Colombia.
Environmental Law Institute The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) is collecting and synthesizing information on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practices in environmental peacebuilding. |
EventsFor more upcoming events on environmental peacebuilding, please visit our online calendar of events. Introduction to Conservation Conflict Transformation — 2-Hour Webinar
January 12, 2021
Center for Conservation Peacebuilding
December 10, 2020
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association – Forest Interest Group (FIG)
December 8, 2020
Environmental Law Institute, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, and UN Environment Programme
December 7, 2020
Geneva Peacebuilding Platform and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Pandemics, Peace, and Justice: Shaping What Comes Next
December 7, 2020 - 2020-12-09
Alliance for Peacebuilding
FAO Open Foris Tools in Action in the Myanmar National Forest Inventory
December 3, 2020
Food and Agricultue Organization of the UN
December 2, 2020
Initiatives of Change Switzerland and Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in partnership with the Geneva Center for Security Policy, Initiatives for Land, Lives, and Peace, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, and Global EverGreening Alliance
Climate Change & Environmental Security in the Mediterranean Sea
December 2, 2020
Konrad Adenauer
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LibraryIn the last two weeks, 21 new publications were added to our online library of materials on environmental peacebuilding. Here is a sampling of the new additions: Climate Change, Relocation and Peacebuilding in Fiji: Challenges, Debates, and Ways Forward
January 1, 2020 | Volker Boege and Ria Shibata
January 1, 2020 | Wim Zwijnenburg, David Hochhauser, Omar Dewachi, Richard Sullivan, and Vinh'Kim Nguyen
International Environmental Crimes: Examining the Ontology, Typology, and Ecology
January 1, 2020 | Eliseus Wilson
Environmental Justice and Peacebuilding Practices in Ethiopia
January 1, 2020 | Mengistu A. Dibaba
The Environment in Warfare-Related Policy Making: The Case in Ukraine
January 1, 2020 | Richard Marcantonio and Kristina Hook
January 1, 2020
Fears for Militarisation of Climate Change: Should We Be Concerned?
January 1, 2020 | Louise van Schaik, Tobias von Lossow, Maha Yassin, and Anouk Schrijver
Revisiting the Contested Role of Natural Resources in Violent Conflict Risk through Machine Learning
January 1, 2020 | Marie K. Schellens and Salim Belyazid
Integrating Conflict, Lobbying, and Compliance to Predict the Sustainability of Natural Resource Use
January 1, 2020 | Jeremy J. Cusack, A. Bradley Duthie, Jeroen Minderman, Isabel L. Jones, Rocio A. Pozo, O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Steve Redpath, and Nils Bunnefeld
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JobsPlease visit our jobs page to view these positions and other job opportunities. Myanmar: Wildlife Crime Global Policy Coordinator November 29, 2020 | World Wide Fund for Nature As a part of World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF-Myanmar was established in 2014 with the aim to support Myanmar’s development ambitions with a focus on spatial planning and biodiversity conservation in parallel…Myanmar: Programme Coordinator November 29, 2020 | International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organisations.Syria: Hygiene Promotion Team Leader November 29, 2020 | GOAL GOAL an International Humanitarian Organisation has had a presence in Turkey since 2013 and has been contributing to the migrant response since 2016 with a focus on responding to needs in health service… |
International NewsIn the last two weeks, 23 international news items on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. The following is a sampling: July 24, 2020 | Adnan Bahiya, Ecologist Covid-19 and the fall in oil prices has pushed Iraq towards calamity, underlining the urgency of ending the country's fossil fuel dependency.Diamond Development Initiative Becomes Part of Resolve July 24, 2020 | Rob Bates, JCK The Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), the Ottawa, Canada–based group that works on issues affecting artisanal diamond miners, will now become part of Resolve, the Washington, D. C.Myanmar: Many Myanmar Mining Firms Fail to Name Politically Connected Owners: Global Witness July 22, 2020 | Nan Lwin, Irrawaddy At least 10 companies in Myanmar have failed to identify “politically exposed persons”—those with links to high-ranking present or former military officials and ethnic armed groups—among their owners, according to a new Global…Liberia: Liberia Responds to COVID-19 Impact on the Oil Industry July 22, 2020 | William Q. Harmon, Observer The Government of Liberia, through the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA), has made significant adjustments to its bid evaluation criteria for the 2020 Offshore Licensing Round for the Harper Basin.Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Tussle with Semi-Autonomous Kurdish Region Seen Complicating Energy Policy July 21, 2020 | Dania Saadi, S&P Global Platts Iraq's federal government has a complicated energy relationship with the Kurdish region that is unlikely to be resolved due to differences within the semi-autonomous entity itself and Baghdad's own struggle with OPEC+ compliance,…South Africa Warns UN Security Council about Violence Against Women in Occupied Western Sahara July 19, 2020 | Sahara Press Service South Africa warned the UN Security Council about the increasing violations of human rights in occupied Palestine and Western Sahara, in particular the hostilities permanently committed against women.Yemen: How a Decaying Oil Tanker became a 'Massive Floating Bomb' Risking Millions of Lives in Yemen July 18, 2020 | Campbell MacDiarmid, Telegraph Time is running out to prevent an “environmental disaster waiting to happen” in the Red Sea, the UK and the UN warned this week, as a dispute over a decaying oil tanker off…South Sudan: Local Communities Demand Implementation of Petroleum Laws July 17, 2020 | Patrick Godi, Gurtong In the face of surging coronavirus cases in South Sudan and its crippling effects, communities living in the oil producing areas have said they’re are not safe and at high risk from the…July 15, 2020 | Kyaw Myo, Irrawaddy The Defense Ministry says it has no plan to return the farmland it confiscated for a sugar mill project in Sagaing Region’s Kantbalu Township or give additional compensation to the land’s original owners.Climate Change: Climate, Weather, and Resilience in the NDAA July 14, 2020 | Laura Leddy, American Security Project In recent weeks, the House and Senate have progressed on the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The House Armed Services Committee passed the House bill (H. R.Afghanistan: Fish Farming Booms in S. Afghan Province July 14, 2020 | Xinhua The Afghan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock has been supporting local farmers in southern province of Kandahar in raising fish to cater to the growing food demand in Afghan markets. |
Blogs & OpinionIn the last two weeks, 6 blogs & opinion pieces on environmental peacebuilding were posted on our website. Climate War in the Sahel? Pastoral Insecurity in West Africa Is Not What It Seems November 30, 2020 | Leif Brottem As violence in Mali and Burkina Faso reached a ten-year high this year, the West African Sahel appears to be experiencing the perfect storm of climate stress, resource degradation, and violent extremism.Fire, Conflict and Land Systems in the Middle East November 27, 2020 | Lina Eklund Since 2019, the author has been involved in a Marie Curie project on fire and conflict in the Middle East: FIRE – Fighting Insurgency Ruining the Environment.The Environmental Cost of Conflict November 26, 2020 | Naghi Ahmadov On 9 November, the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a Russia-brokered agreement to end the military operations in Karabakh that had started on 27 September and inflicted massive losses on the Armenian…Deforestation, Dying Rivers Leading to Water Wars November 25, 2020 | Michael A. Bengwayan An eerie calm exists over the villages of Fedelisan, Sagada and Dalican of Bontoc of Mountain Province, Philippines.Re-Envisioning Climate Action to Sustain Peace and Human Security November 17, 2020 | Catherine Wong, Stephen Gold, Samuel Rizk, and Cassie Flynn A combination of crisis, conflict, climate change and COVID-19 means that we live in truly unprecedented times.Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership (GWSP) – Rising to the Challenges of 2020 November 16, 2020 | Jennifer J. Sara The year 2020 has been shaped by interlocking crises: the COVID-19 pandemic that threatens to roll back years of hard-won development progress, the struggles of delivering the water-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and… |
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Compiled by Rosabella Bojin, Amber Bosse, Elen Bueno, Alex Caplan, Miriam Dangasuk, Jordan Dieni, Claire Doyle, Matthew Gallagher, Giovanni Galli, Bay Hanson, Desirée De Haven, Liz Hessami, Ellen Johnson, Avak Kahramanian, Andrew Light, Christopher Marchesano, Marie Mavrikios, Charly McConaghy, Anna Rossi, and Rachel Stern |
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