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Liberia: Putu Residents Left in the Shadows as Logging Funds Spark Confusion and Discontent

Jul 15, 2025 | Esther Natelia Scott and Emmanuel Weedee-Conway
FrontPage Africa

As logging trucks continue to haul timber from the forests of Putu, residents of the community say they are left behind in worsening poverty, with…

Colombia: In Colombia, Indigenous Youth Seek to Protect Land. They Have to Escape Violence to Do It

Jul 15, 2025 | Steven Grattan
Associated Press

Indigenous groups have often argued that they are uniquely qualified to act as protectors of the land, and have often fought for legal rights to…

Rwanda: Project Manager

Jul 15, 2025 | Mennonite Central Committee

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a worldwide ministry of Anabaptist churches. MCC is a global, nonprofit organization that strives to share God’s love and compassion for…

Water Wars: Why South Asia and Africa Must Act before Rivers become Frontlines

Jul 14, 2025 | Queenie Nair

While leaders continue to treat water disputes as peripheral an environmental or technical challenge to be solved by engineers and bureaucrats the truth is far…

Afghanistan: Kabul’s Water Crisis: How Unsustainable Foreign Aid Projects Made It Worse

Jul 13, 2025 | Modaser Islami
Arab News

As Kabul makes global headlines for being on the brink of running out of water, experts say the crisis stems not only from natural and…

Afghanistan: Kabul Water Crisis: Experts Urge Immediate Launch of Panjsher Project

Jul 12, 2025 | Suhrab Sarwari
Pajhwok Afghan News

With a worrying decline in groundwater levels in Kabul, environmental experts warn that any delay in launching the Panjshir Water Transfer Project could push the…

Myanmar: In Myanmar, a Rush for Rare Earth Metals Is Causing a Regional Environmental Disaster

Jul 12, 2025 | Michael Sullivan
NPR

The Wat Tha Ton Temple sits high above the tourist town of Tha Ton, with a magnificent view of the Kok River valley to the…

Gender, Climate and Conflict: Women Building Resilience in Bangladesh’s Fragile Zones

Jul 12, 2025 | Major Shajeda Akter Moni
Daily Sun

Following June 2024’s flash floods, when over 2.1 million Sylhet and Sunamganj inhabitants lost all, they had, Shaharima Sharna emerged. A LoGIC community mobiliser, she…

Syria: ‘We Belong to This Land’: Syrians Navigate Landmines to Battle Wildfires

Jul 11, 2025 | Majd Obeissi
Al Jazeera

Syria’s wildfires are the first major natural disaster since the country overthrew the Bashar al-Assad regime in December.

DRC/Rwanda: Behind the Congo-Rwanda Peace Deal: History, Minerals, and Power [Video]

Jul 11, 2025 | Ahmed Ghoneim
CGTN America

A historic US-brokered peace deal has been signed for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. But beneath the handshakes, photo ops, and headlines…

Kenya: Regional Manager - East Africa

Jul 11, 2025 | CESVI - Cooperazione e Sviluppo Onlus

WORK CONTEXT

CESVI has been operating in the Horn of Africa for over two decades, providing humanitarian and development assistance in response to recurring crises caused…

DRC: Expert en analyse intersectionnelle et intégration du genre dans les approches programmatiques

Jul 11, 2025 | Interpeace

1. Présentation d’Interpeace et du programme

Interpeace est une organisation internationale de consolidation de la paix qui soutient des initiatives de consolidation de la paix menées localement…

Lebanon: Renewable Energy Project Coordinator

Jul 11, 2025 | United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

Under the overall supervision of UNRWA-Siblin Training Center (STC), the Renewable Energy Project Coordinator helps managing all the technical implementation and administrative aspects of the…

Somalia: Climate and Environment Manager

Jul 11, 2025 | Norwegian Refugee Council

This position is a collaboration between NRC and IOM. The Climate and Environment Manager will be hired by NRC and seconded full-time to IOM to…

Somalia: Environmental Peacemaking Advisor (Service provider)

Jul 11, 2025 | European Institute of Peace

Based in Brussels and active in over a dozen countries, the European Institute of Peace (www.eip.org) is an independent organisation working collaboratively with the parties to the…

Gambia/Senegal: NAM Says Cassamance Conflict Shuts out Gambian Farmers from Accessing Ancestral Lands

Jul 10, 2025 | Nyima Sillah
Voice Gambia

Hon. Bakary K. Badjie, the National Assembly Member (NAM) for Foni Bintang has said that the decades long unresolved conflict in the troubled southern Senegalese…

DRC: DRC Conflict Deepens: Tshisekedi’s Deal with Blackwater Sparks Fears of Mineral-Driven War as Civilians Suffer

Jul 10, 2025
Eastleigh Voice

As violence intensifies in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), President Félix Tshisekedi’s decision to bring in Blackwater, a private military company with a controversial…

DRC: Safety, Security and Access Director

Jul 10, 2025 | Mercy Corps

The Program / Department / Team (Program / Department Summary)

Mercy Corps is present in the DRC since August 2007 with a current workforce of more than…

‘Natural’ Opportunities for Dialogue with North Korea

Jul 9, 2025 | Saleem Ali

As President Trump considers ways to reengage with North Korea, he might consider environmental cooperation as a way to open a new opportunity for dialogue.…

India/Pakistan: Can India Stop Pakistan’s River Water — and Will It Spark a New War?

Jul 9, 2025 | Abid Hussain
Al Jazeera

India announced it was walking out of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), a six-decade-old transboundary water agreement that governs the division of water from the…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad-KRG Oil Deal Stalls Despite Reports of Breakthrough

Jul 9, 2025 | Charles Kennedy
Oilprice.com

The long-running oil export dispute between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil over oil exports and public-sector salaries has now deepened, as…

Nancy E. Boyer

Affiliated Assistant Professor
University of Delaware
United States
Jul 9, 2025

Informed by her work with the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and life-long advocacy of peace and justice issues, Nancy Boyer teaches the introductory and synthesis…

Fossil Fuels Feed Wars, Green Energy Fuels Peace

Jul 8, 2025 | Thais Lopez Vogel

While the world rightly views the climate crisis as the most urgent threat posed by our dependence on oil, coal and gas, there’s another, often…

Sierra Leone: Building Resilient Food Systems in Sierra Leone: Sustainable Agriculture, Community Empowerment, and Strategic Partnerships for Long-Term Food Security

Jul 8, 2025
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL), through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) working with its development partners, the Food and Agriculture Organization…