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2025 Al-Moumin Award for Thought Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding Awarded to Nada Majdalani, Yana Abu Taleb, Gidon Bromberg, and Tareq Abu Hamed

Apr 29, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to award the 2025 Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding to Nada Majdalani, Yana Abu Taleb, Gidon…

Sudan: Private Sector Engagement Manager: Agriculture/Livelihoods (World Bank)

Apr 29, 2025
Catholic Relief Services

CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of…

South Sudan: Conflict Sensitivity and Conservation Training Consultant

Apr 29, 2025
Saferworld

The Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility (CSRF) supports the aid community in South Sudan, with support from the British, Swiss and Dutch donor missions alongside the…

DRC: EU Companies Fueling Minerals Smuggling in DRC

Apr 28, 2025 | Ronald Musoke
Independent

All actors in the supply chain of illicit mineral exports, from operators of the mines to end product users, need to be held accountable for…

From Alexander using Jhelum River in 326 BC to Dams and Flooding in Modern World: How Rivers Have Been Weaponised to Win Wars and Gain Tactical Advantage

Apr 28, 2025 | Anurag

In April 2025, India announced that it would suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan. It is a 63-year-old water-sharing pact which, interestingly, survived…

India/Pakistan: India Shuts Salal Dam after Indus Treaty Suspended [Video]

Apr 25, 2025
CNN News18

India has officially suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, marking the most significant diplomatic escalation after the brutal Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed the…

EnPAx Launches New Webiste

Apr 25, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is pleased to announce a major upgrade of the Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform (www.environmentalpeacebuilding.org).

Over the last thirteen years, the Environmental…

India/Pakistan: Pakistan Suspends Trade with India, Says Diverting Indus Water ‘an Act of War’, Closes Air Space

Apr 25, 2025 | Shubhajit Roy
Indian Express

A day after India took several diplomatic measures against Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack, Islamabad said Thursday it “shall exercise the right to hold…

Illicit Mineral Supply Chains Fuel the DRC’s M23 Insurgency

Apr 23, 2025 | Clarkson Kamurai, Brad Handler, and Morgan Bazilian

The insurgency by M23 in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the latest example of the damage that can be wrought by…

The Cost of Conflict: Understanding the Health Consequences of War and Displacement

Apr 23, 2025 | Nour Suaaidi Amane

Peace and conflict, two words that are opposite, yet existing in the same world. For some people, life is marked by stability, access to healthcare…

Colombia: New Research Finds Substantial Peat Deposits in Colombia’s Conflicted Amazon

Apr 23, 2025 | Erik Iverson
Mongabay

In the heart of the Colombian Amazon, the towering mountains of the Serranía del Chiribiquete harbor secrets including South America’s oldest rock art. The remote…

A New Political and Funding Reality for Environmental Peacebuilding

Apr 22, 2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

The Trump administration’s January 2025 decision to freeze all foreign assistance funding has had massive and reverberating consequences for humanitarian, development and conservation programmes in…

Sierra Leone/Liberia: Conserving Gola Forest: Sierra Leone and Liberia Unite for Peace, Sustainability

Apr 22, 2025 | Seraphine Wakana
United Nations

The governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone, in partnership with the United Nations, have launched the Resilience, Empowerment, Access and Peacebuilding (GOLA-REAP) project, aimed at…

Water: How Conflict-Sensitive Water Management Builds Peace: Lessons from CGIAR’s Training with Egypt’s NWRC

Apr 22, 2025 | Ibukun Taiwo
CGIAR

Climate change is straining water supplies and heightening community tensions. Evidence shows that when water scarcity rises within certain contexts, the risk of conflict increases.…

Sierra Leone: From Blood Diamonds to Critical Minerals: Sierra Leone’s Mining Transformation

Apr 21, 2025 | Jason Mitchell
bne IntelliNews

Once defined by war and blood diamonds, Sierra Leone is now looking to turn its rich but underdeveloped mineral base – iron ore, gold, rutile…

Ethiopia: Supporting Inclusive Customary Institutions for Environmental Peacebuilding in Tigray-Afar Region, Ethiopia

Apr 21, 2025 | Luca Kroese
Tropenbos International

In Ethiopia’s Tigray-Afar border region, pressure on natural resources has grown following years of conflict. With support from PENHA, customary leaders known as Abogerebs (“fathers…

Iraq: Consultant for Conducting Agro-Ecological Practices and Seed Multiplication Systems, in the Governorate of Anbar and Salah al Din Governorates, in Fed

Apr 20, 2025 | Oxfam

Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Across regions, from the local to the global, Oxfam…

Iraq: Study on Investments in Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus, focusing on promoting Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) (Consultancy)

Apr 20, 2025 | Oxfam

Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Across regions, from the local to the global, Oxfam…

Food Security, Peace and Stability: A Review of CGIAR’s Role in Fragile and Conflict Affected States (Consultancy)

Apr 20, 2025 | CGIAR

Conflict and insecurity are major drivers of food insecurity and the highest numbers of people facing acute food insecurity are found in fragile and conflict…

Liberia: Gov’t Cracks Down on Illegal Wetland Encroachers

Apr 18, 2025
Observer

The Government has taken a firm stance against the persistent encroachment and destruction of protected wetlands across the country, and as such began a massive…

Colombia: Armed Groups, Cattle Ranchers Drove 35% Rise in Colombia’s Deforestation in 2024

Apr 18, 2025 | Antonio José Paz Cardona
Mongabay

The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last…

Conflict-Monitoring Collective Wins European Space Agency Earth Observation Excellence Award

Apr 17, 2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

The Decentralized Damage Mapping Group — an international collective of academics and civil society organisations — has advanced the use of satellite analysis to document the…

DRC: Blackwater Founder and Trump Ally Strikes Mineral Security Deal with Congo

Apr 17, 2025 | Mining.com

Former Blackwater chief executive officer and Donald Trump supporter, Erik Prince, will lead a team helping the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) secure and tax…

Ukraine: Ukraine Says Pact Signed with US Is First Step towards Minerals Deal

Apr 17, 2025 | Reuters

Ukraine said on Thursday Kyiv and Washington had signed a memorandum as an initial step towards clinching an agreement on developing mineral resources in Ukraine,…

Negotiations at Gunpoint: Does US Pressure on Ukraine for a Minerals Deal Amount to Unlawfully Procuring a Treaty by Use of Force?

Apr 17, 2025 | Jeremy Pizzi and Maksym Vishchyk

American attempts to coerce Ukraine into giving up its valuable mineral resources are unseemly, but they may also threaten the validity of such a deal…