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Syria: Drought Helped Cause Syria’s War. Will Climate Change Bring More Like It?
Sep 10, 2013
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Brad Plumer, Washington Post
Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell are co-founders of the D.C.-based Center for Climate and Security, a think tank focused on the interactions between climate change and security issues. In…
200 Years Of Landlessness? Land Inequality And The Search For Peace In Colombia
Aug 28, 2013
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Thomas Edward Flores
Representatives of the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continue to negotiate in the sweltering Havana summer to end a civil…
The Battle for Water
Aug 7, 2013
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Project Syndicate
The sharpening international geopolitical competition over natural resources has turned some strategic resources into engines of power struggle. Transnational water resources have become an especially…
Policy Brief Release: Assessing & Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Jun 17, 2013
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ELI & UNEP
Brief No. 2: Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, an accompanying brief to our recently released book of the same title, is now…
Blood Money and Diamonds
Jun 13, 2013
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Farakh A. Khan
Slavery was banned in early 19th century but different forms of slavery continued. Globalisation made slavery a commonplace practice where people in the developed and…
Available for Download: Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
May 25, 2013
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ELI & UNEP
Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is now available for download free of charge. To find out more about the book and download…
New Release: Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
May 6, 2013
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ELI & UNEP
Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, the latest book in the series was released today. To find out more and order a copy, please click here.
Press ReleaseLand,…
Q&A: Aynak and Mining in Afghanistan
Apr 2, 2013
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The World Bank
Aynak is a large undeveloped copper resource, located about 40 km southeast of Kabul in Afghanistan’s Logar province. After a competitive bidding process, the government…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Forests a Casualty of Timber Smuggling
Mar 18, 2013
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Sean Carberry, WBFO
Despite Afghanistan's fierce winter, it's rare to find a house with insulation or a modern heating system. So Afghans rely on bukharis, stoves that look…
New Release: Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Nov 6, 2012
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ELI & UNEP
Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, the latest book in the series, was released today. To find out more and order a copy,…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pakistan Had Buried the Nuclear Waste in Helmand and Kandahar
Oct 9, 2012
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Sobah 8
Experts from environment are saying that the government of Pakistan, after testing a nuclear bomb in Baluchistan in the 1999-2001, at the time of the…
Nurturing Wildlife in War-Torn Afghanistan
Dec 2, 2011
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Rachael Nuwer
When Wildlife Conservation Society scientists talk about their work in Afghanistan, they typically draw puzzled reactions. “Wildlife conservation in Afghanistan?”
Given the enormity of the country’s…
Afghanistan Bright Spot: Wildlife Surviving in War Zones
Jun 12, 2011
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Brian Handwerk
Despite decades of deadly fighting among humans, many of Afghanistan's mammals are doing surprisingly well in the country's remaining forests, according to a new study.
Recent…
The American Military is Creating an Environmental Disaster in Afghanistan
Apr 25, 2010
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Matthew Nasuti
The American military presence in Afghanistan consists of fleets of aircraft, helicopters, armored vehicles, weapons, equipment, troops and facilities. Since 2001, they have generated millions…
The American Military is Creating an Environmental Disaster in Afghanistan
Apr 25, 2010
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Matthew Nasuti
The American military presence in Afghanistan consists of fleets of aircraft, helicopters, armored vehicles, weapons, equipment, troops and facilities. Since 2001, they have generated millions…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pakistan 'Dumped Nuclear Waste'
Apr 1, 2008
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Martin Vennard , BBC News
The Afghan government says it has evidence that nuclear waste from Pakistan was dumped in Afghanistan during the reign of the Taleban. Parliamentary affairs minster…
Sachs: Poverty Alleviation Route to Security
Jan 19, 2007
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Wilson Center
Urging a better understanding of the roots of instability, Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs on Wednesday said that fighting poverty will provide security benefits to…
Fiji: Indigenous Women Defend Community and Environment
Feb 20, 2006
In September of 2005, women from rural and urban areas throughout the Macuata Province, Fiji, met to create a strategic, ten-year sustainable development plan. The…
War Relief for the Environment
Jul 31, 1991
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Paul Shrivastava
Human suffering and political confusion have dominated postwar news in the persian gulf. But now, a year after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the war's most enduring…
New Amnesty Report Provides Insights into the Diamond Trade in Central African Republic
Kasper Agger
The Central African Republic (CAR) has been rocked by renewed violence this week with 36 people killed and 42,575 displaced persons over the last few days. A new report from…
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE WATER-GENDER-VIOLENCE NEXUS
King's Water
King’s Water will be participating in the 2016 Annual International Conference (30 August – 2 September 2016) of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in…
Climate, Conflict, and Refugees: Examining the Impact of Environmental Change on Human Security
Arundhati Ponnapa
“There’s a long list of crises that can have a natural resource base,” said Anne C. Richard, former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees,…
Kirkuk and the Kurdish Referendum
Yasar Yakis
After the announcement of the date for Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence referendum, the debate has shifted to the provinces it will cover. Kurds claim Kirkuk is…
Call for Case Studies on Environmental Assessment in Humanitarian Action
USAID, OCHA, UN Environment, UNHCR, WWF, and MSB Joint Initiative
A Joint Initiative by USAID, OCHA, UN Environment, UNHCR, WWF, and MSB is seeking case studies relating to environmental assessments in humanitarian action. This initiative…
Seeking Applicants: Environmental Field Advisor for the MSB (Deadline December 10th 2017)
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency is accepting applications for Environment Field Advisors.
Duties
Environmental integration in humanitarian aid is a priority area for MSB. Within this field,…
Sometimes the Label of "Conflict Minerals" Simply Shouldn't Apply
International Council on Mining and Metals
The mining and metals sector attracts a great deal of attention from policy makers, think tanks, academics, non-governmental organisations and organisations such as ICMM. So…
Deforestation in Post-Conflict Colombia
Juan Vargas
Economists on Peace contributor, Juan Vargas, on the surprising environmental outcomes that followed the FARC peace agreement.
Day 9: Feminism and Food Sovereignty
Pamela Elisa Caro Molina
Food sovereignty offers opportunities to advance women’s rights within the food system, but we must also work to restore gender relations within rural families and…
Responsibility to Prepare
https://climateandsecurity.org/responsibilitytoprepare/
The 21st Century will be defined by unprecedented risks and unprecedented foresight. International security institutions and governments have a “Responsibility to Prepare” for this future.
What Has Happened to Gender Provisions in Peace Agreements?
Agathe Christien
The world seemed to be making slow but steady progress on the inclusion of gender sensitive provisions in peace agreements. References to women and gender had…