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Liz Alden Wily to Deliver Third Al-Moumin Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding

Jul 21, 2015 | American University, ELI, and UNEP

American University, ELI, and UNEP are pleased to announce that Liz Alden Wily will deliver the Third Al-Moumin Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding. The lecture,…

The Dodd-Frank Act at 5: Examining Progress and Pushback

Jul 21, 2015 | Naki B. Mendoza

Birthdays are often cause for celebration, yet cheers for Tuesday’s fifth anniversary of the historic Dodd-Frank Act have been somewhat tempered and reserved.

Since officially being…

Dodd-Frank at 5: How Financial Reform Led to Bloodshed in the Congo

Jul 21, 2015 | Stephanie Slade

The Dodd-Frank financial reform act turns 5 today. It was signed into law by President Obama on July 21, 2010. In the two years immediately…

Water and Climate Shocks Ideation Challenge

Jul 21, 2015 | Skoll Global Threats Fund & Innocentive

The Skoll Global Threats Fund is partnering with Innocentive in a challenge to identify early indications of when a water or climatic event in one location, such…

Cambodia: Protesters Decry ‘Land Grabbing’

Jul 21, 2015 | Pech Sotheary, Phnom Penh Post

About 300 protesters from Svay Rieng and Preah Sihanouk provinces marched to parliament yesterday to file petitions urging the local authorities to intervene to resolve…

Rwanda: Rwanda is Biggest Exporter of Major Minerals in Region, Reports KT Press

Jul 21, 2015 | PR Newswire

Rwanda is producing more minerals than any country in the Great Lakes Region, says a global not-for-profit agency that has been dealing with the traceability,…

Webinar: The Road to A Comprehensive Conflict Minerals Program in 2015

Jul 20, 2015 | Source Intelligence

It seems like every company that has to file with the SEC or has customers that have to file for Dodd-Frank 1502, Conflict Minerals rule,…

The Sentry

Jul 20, 2015 | Enough Project

Today the Enough Project is launching The Sentry, an initiative seeking to help dismantle the networks of perpetrators, facilitators, and enablers who fund and profit from…

Governance, Gender and no Guarantees in Africa’s Oil-Rich States

Jul 19, 2015 | Celeste Hicks and Laura Seay

The discovery of oil in Chad in 1969 did not yield many immediate benefits for a population that would soon be wracked by civil war,…

Georgia/Russia: Russia in ‘New Land Grab’ in Former Soviet State

Jul 19, 2015 | Associated Press

Hundreds of people are demonstrating outside government headquarters in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, urging authorities to halt talks with Russia in the wake…

South Sudan/Uganda/Rwanda: Kampala-Kigali Railway Project Derails

Jul 19, 2015 | Eric Kabeera, The Independent

The Kampala-Kigali leg of Standard Gauge Railway line, under the northern corridor infrastructure development initiative, may delay as Uganda shifts its priority to “a more…

Iraq: Is ISIL Running Out of Oil?

Jul 19, 2015 | Imran Khan, Al Jazeera

It has been alleged that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has made millions in Iraq, smuggling oil from various sites that…

China/Taiwan/South China Sea: Taiwan Promotes Its Island Claim in South China Sea

Jul 18, 2015 | Ralph Jennings, Associated Press

As China builds artificial islands in a vast resource-rich South China Sea and neighbors in Southeast Asia brace for possible conflict, Taiwan is cutting carbon…

Do-Gooders, Do No Harm: What Are the Best–and Worst–Ways to Help Those Mired in International Conflicts?

Jul 17, 2015 | Laura Seay and Alex de Waal, Washington Post

In today’s hyper-connected world, it’s easier than ever for those who live thousands of miles away from a conflict area to learn about a crisis. When…

Sudan: A Golden New Era for Sudanese Mining

Jul 17, 2015 | The World Folio

Even though informal gold mining has long been an important element in the composition of the Sudanese economy, it is only since the secession of…

South Sudan: South Sudan Rebels Establish More Institutions, Appoint Officials

Jul 17, 2015 | Sudan Tribune

The armed opposition faction of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) under the leadership of former vice president, Riek Machar, has established more institutions and…

Call for Abstracts: Colloquium on African Borders

Jul 16, 2015 | African Union Border Program

The African Union Border Program (AUBP) supported by the GIZ and the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University (AAU) invites…

Ukraine Conflict – 24 Months of Urgent Environmental Recovery Will Cost $30m

Jul 16, 2015 | Doug Weir

The environmental costs of the ongoing Ukraine conflict are still to be quantified but an EU-UN-World Bank needs assessment has called for US$30m to fund…

Myanmar: MoU for Salween Hydropower Project to be Signed between Thailand, Myanmar, China

Jul 15, 2015 | Watcharapong Thongrung, The Nation

Thailand, China and Myanmar are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development of the 7,000-megawatt Mong Ton hydropower-plant project on the…

Myanmar: Jade Sales Fall Flat amid Fighting in Kachin

Jul 15, 2015 | Democratic Voice of Burma

The annual gems emporium in Naypyidaw has ended on a low, with jade sales down 63 percent, a decrease blamed on ongoing armed conflict in…

Glaring Sea Erosion Danger in Liberia Needs Urgent Attention

Jul 14, 2015 | Front Page Africa

Monrovia is located near the Atlantic Ocean and also contains other smaller bodies of water including the Du River which is found in almost every…

Training Curriculum and Facilitators

Jul 14, 2015 | Ade Bodunde

The International Center for Community Peace in Nigeria is seeking assistance in developing a curriculum and training program with courses on Environmental Security and Peace,…

Myanmar: Three Years, Zero Landmines Cleared

Jul 14, 2015 | Guy Dinmore, Myanmar Times

Since the Scotland-based HALO Trust started work in Afghanistan in 1988 and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) cleared its first mine in Cambodia in 1992, the…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq’s Kurds Bypass State for Oil Exports to Tighten Control

Jul 14, 2015 | Khalid Al Ansary, Bruce Stanley, and Anthony Dipaola, Bloomberg

Iraq’s self-ruled Kurds are bypassing the government in Baghdad and independently selling all the crude oil exported from their region for the first time as…

SouthSudan/Sudan/Abyei: Security Council Extends UN Peacekeeping Force in Abyei through December 2015

Jul 14, 2015 | United Nations

The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of the Organization's interim peacekeeping force in Abyei - a resource-rich area contested by Sudan and…

China/Philippines/South China Sea: How China Views the South China Sea Arbitration Case

Jul 14, 2015 | Xue Li, The Diplomat

On December 7, 2014, China’s Foreign Ministry was authorized to release the “Position Paper of the Government of the People’s Republic of China on the…

Director of Policy

Jul 13, 2015 | Enough Project

The Director of Policy will work closely with the Enough Project’s Founding Director to shape Enough’s policy and research agenda, as well as Enough’s strategies…

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Policy Analyst

Jul 13, 2015 | Enough Project

The Policy Analyst for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes region will be responsible for researching and writing about the drivers of…

Cambodia: Conservation Area Manager

Jul 13, 2015 | World Wildlife Foundation

The Conservation Area Manager works permanently at EPL office and acts as a project focal point to address land use delineation, law enforcement, and conservation…

Liberia: Director of Operations and Finance

Jul 13, 2015 | Conservation International

CI Liberia is seeking an experienced, dynamic, collaborative and detail-oriented individual to lead our operations program and provide direct financial management to our team in…