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The US Needs Partners to Tackle the Security Risks of Climate Change
Mar 4, 2021
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Joshua Busby, Morgan Bazilian, and Florian Krampe
We live in an age of “actorless threats” – where challenges to peace and security come not only from agents intentionally trying to do us…
UNDP Calls for Temporary Basic Income to Help World’s Poorest Women Cope with Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic
Mar 4, 2021
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UNDP
A temporary basic income (TBI) given specifically to hundreds of millions of women in the world’s developing countries could prevent rising poverty and widening gender…
Afghanistan: Govt's Agreement with Australian Company Sparks Controversy
Mar 4, 2021
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Mir Haidar Shah Omid, TOLOnews
A document seen by TOLOnews shows that the Afghan government has awarded a five-year "framework agreement" for the development of mining in Afghanistan to an…
Zambia: The Voice of Leadership: Women in Wildlife in Zambia
Mar 4, 2021
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Patricia Malasha
In Zambia, women and men are making the choice to challenge cultural and social barriers to women’s participation in natural resource management
When it comes to…
Women Fighting Wildlife Crime
Mar 3, 2021
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UNDP
Through positions they occupy in all walks of life – as influencers in their communities, frontline defenders and wildlife managers, government decision-makers, legislators, scientists, and…
Colombia: Colombia’s National Parks at a Crossroads as New Director Installed
Mar 3, 2021
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Aurora Solá, Mongabay
It happened the way it so often does in Colombia: the government announced a new official appointment and outrage ensued. As the year 2020 drew…
Liberia: Review Finds Palm Oil Firm Golden Veroleum Cleared Carbon-Rich Liberian Forests
Mar 3, 2021
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Ashoka Mukpo, Mongabay
In another blow to the Liberia-based palm oil company Golden Veroleum, an investigation by an independent grievance panel has found that it bulldozed rainforests and…
Afghanistan: Decrease Rainfalls, Drought Worrying Afghans
Mar 3, 2021
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Afghanistan Times
The severe droughts caused by frequent lack of rainfalls and snowfalls are worrying people in Afghanistan especially in the rural areas where people are mostly…
Afghanistan/Iran: Dam Building in Afghanistan Threatens Hamoun Wetlands in Iran
Mar 3, 2021
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Tehran Times
The dried-up wetlands became a source of sand and dust storm, and the DOE has called on the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and…
Colombia: Colombia to Focus on Illegal Mining, Formalization of Small Miners in 2021
Mar 2, 2021
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BNamericas
Colombia is currently making efforts to diversify its mining sector while boosting the country’s economy, and this year authorities will focus on two specific issues…
Junior Scholars Review Environmental Peacebuilding Literature
Mar 2, 2021
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Rohini Thakkar and Gianluca Corinaldesi, Duke University Center for International & Global Studies
Scholars and Duke alumnae McKenzie Frances Johnson and Luz Angela Rodríguez spoke on February 18, 2021 at the DUCIGS event: “Junior Scholars in Conversation: Comparative…
Syria: Environmental Ruin Could Make Postwar Syria Unlivable [Audio]
Mar 2, 2021
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Kira Walker, World Politics Review
After nearly a decade of conflict, the extensive damage inflicted on Syria’s environment is emerging as another devastating, if less visible, tragedy of its civil…
4 Assumptions About Gender that Distort How we Think About Climate Change (and 3 Ways to Do Better)
Mar 1, 2021
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Jacqueline Lau, Pip Cohen, and Sarah Lawless
Gender influences how people experience and respond to climate change. This is particularly evident in developing nations where women and men adapt to climatic shocks differently.…
4 Assumptions About Gender that Distort How we Think About Climate Change (and 3 Ways to Do Better)
Mar 1, 2021
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Jacqueline Lau, Pip Cohen, and Sarah Lawless
Gender influences how people experience and respond to climate change. This is particularly evident in developing nations where women and men adapt to climatic shocks differently.…
International Women’s Day, 2021 Gender Equality is Our Captain for Sailing to a Green & Just Recovery
Mar 1, 2021
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Jennifer Morgan
The climate crisis doesn’t stop for anyone or anything, not even the pandemic that has forced billions of us to radically overhaul our lives. And…
Liberia: Government, Development Partners Petitioned to Support Customary Land Formalization Process
Mar 1, 2021
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Gerald C. Koinyeneh, FrontPage Africa
Sudan: Sudan Imposes New Controls over Gold Trade
Mar 1, 2021
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Middle East Monitor
Sudanese yesterday announced the adoption of a new plan to reform its economy based on imposing controls over smuggling gold, the New Khaleej reported. The…
Climate-Conflict Research: A Decade of Scientific Progress
Feb 28, 2021
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Halvard Buhaug and Nina von Uexkull
The last decade was the warmest on record, with 2020 tied with 2016 for the all-time high average annual global temperature. This 10-year period also saw…
Is It Time for “Ecocide” to become an International Crime?
Feb 28, 2021
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Economist
In November last year a group of international lawyers set about formally defining ecocide. The panel—which is co-chaired by Philippe Sands, a lawyer who has…
Liberia: Weah Frowns at Border Disputes in South-Eastern Counties
Feb 28, 2021
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Alvin Worzi, Observer
President George M. Weah has announced the setting-up of special a committee compromising elders, chiefs and members of the legislative caucuses of Maryland, River Gee…
Bangladesh: Climate Change in Bangladesh to ‘Impact Int’l Security’: Muniruzzaman
Feb 28, 2021
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United News of Bangladesh
President of Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security (BIPSS) Maj Gen (retd) ANM Muniruzzaman on Sunday talked about the risks Bangladesh faces as a frontline…
The Impact of Climate Change on Peace and Security in Somalia: Implications for AMISOM
Feb 28, 2021
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Kheira Tarif and Anab Ovidie Grand
The February 2021 mandate renewal for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is an opportunity to review what we know about climate change and…
Climate Change, Conflict: What Is Fuelling the Lake Chad Crisis
Feb 28, 2021
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Abhijit Mohanty, Kieran Robson, Samuel Ngueping, and Swayam Sampurna Nanda
One of Africa’s largest freshwater bodies, the Lake Chad, has shrunk by 90 per cent. Over 10 million people across the region are in need…
How Much Oil and Gas Is Contained in the South China Sea?
Feb 28, 2021
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Ethen Kim Lieser
Stretching from Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest to the Strait of Taiwan, the South China Sea long has been considered one of the…
Iraq: In Oil-Rich Iraq, a Few Women Buck Norms, Take Rig Site Jobs
Feb 28, 2021
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Samya Kullab, Associated Press
Zainab Amjad and Ayat Rawthan, both 24, are among just a handful who have eschewed the dreary office jobs typically handed to female petroleum engineers…
Afghanistan: MEAL Advisor – Consultancy
Feb 28, 2021
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Medair
Medair implements emergency nutrition, health, WASH and food security projects targeting displaced, conflict- and drought-affected vulnerable populations in central and southern Afghanistan. Resilience and early…
Liberia: LLA Launches ‘Land Conflict’ Awareness In Maryland County
Feb 27, 2021
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E. Varney Kamah, Global News Network
As land conflict has become a serious problem in Maryland County, Liberia at the official lunching of the Awareness Campaign on the dissemination of information…
Ghana: Nomads-Farmers’ Conflict: Security Analyst Urges Ghana to Enact Ranching Law
Feb 27, 2021
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GhanaWeb
Dr Festus Kofi Aubyn, a Security Analyst, has urged the Government to enact a Cattle Ranching Law, as part of measures to address the perennial…
India: Human Lives Lost to Wildlife-Human Conflict Should Be Compensated Better: Scientists
Feb 26, 2021
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Press Trust of India
The lives of people lost due to wildlife-human conflicts are not adequately compensated in India, according to a new study which says changing the approach…
Iraq: Decades after the Gulf War, Iraq’s Youth View Oil as a Curse
Feb 26, 2021
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Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera
Like most of the young people who joined Iraq’s countrywide demonstrations in 2019, musician Sally Mars took to the streets to demand that the government…