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Safeguarding Vulnerable Communities: Implementing Early Warning Systems in Conflict Zones
Sep 17, 2024
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CoE-EDP, VisionRI
The World Bank's latest report, "Early Warning Systems in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence-affected Settings: Shielding Communities from Natural Hazards Amid Compounded Crises," highlights the challenges…
Afghanistan: Geo Explainer: Why Does Afghanistan Have a High Risk of Natural Disasters?
Sep 17, 2024
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Geographical
For every one million inhabitants in Afghanistan, 1,150 people die each year. Of these deaths, 50 per cent are caused by national disasters. Only one…
Somalia: Climate Change Is Turbo-Charging Somalia’s Problems - but There's Still Hope
Sep 17, 2024
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Justin Rowlatt, BBC
Somalia may be one of the poorest countries in the world and beset by violence, but it is “fixable”, according to its top climate official.…
NOW LIVE: EnPAx MOOC on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace
Sep 17, 2024
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and SDGAcademyX
EnPAx and SDGAcademyX are pleased to announce that our historic, popular course on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace is now live. This fifth iteration of…
War and Climate Change Intensify Global Water-Related Conflicts
Sep 16, 2024
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Neeraja Kulkarni
The Pacific Institute recently updated its Water Conflict Chronology—a database of water-conflict events that began to take form in the 1980s. The recent updates include…
Ukraine: US Senator Lindsey Graham: Ukraine Sits on ‘Trillion Dollars Worth of Minerals That Could Be Good for our Economy’
Sep 16, 2024
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Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy
US Senator Lindsey Graham has argued that Washington must support Ukraine because of its lucrative natural resources. During a visit to Kiev in September, Graham…
Kroc Institute Welcomes Five New Ph.D. Students, Names Fellowship Recipients
Sep 16, 2024
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Lisa Gallagher, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Five new students representing five different disciplines have arrived at the Kroc Institute this fall as part of its interdisciplinary doctoral program in peace studies.…
Africa: State of Africa’s Environment: Transboundary Tension
Sep 15, 2024
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DownToEarth
Africa is unique in terms of its transboundary water resources. Transboundary water (TBW) resources are especially important in Africa, where 63 international transboundary river basins…
Egypt/Ethiopia: Could Egypt and Ethiopia's Tensions Escalate into a War?
Sep 14, 2024
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Jennifer Holleis and David Ehl, Deutchse Welle
The ongoing dispute over Ethiopia's GERD dam could easily spill over to the Horn of Africa in light of two new deals that involve Egypt,…
Afghanistan: War, Deforestation, Flooding: In Afghanistan They Are All Linked
Sep 14, 2024
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Mariam Amini, Guardian
Afghanistan has always been prone to natural disasters. Among low-income nations, it ranked second in the number of deaths caused by them between 1980 and…
Afghanistan: Over 200 Mining Contracts Signed in Past Three Years
Sep 13, 2024
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TOLOnews
Some economic experts consider the standardized extraction of minerals within the country to be beneficial for Afghanistan's economic growth.
Egypt and Ethiopia Tussle at UN Security Council as Nile Dam Tensions Escalate
Sep 13, 2024
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Foundation for Defense of Democracies
As tensions escalate between Egypt and Ethiopia over the latest filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopian Foreign Minister Taye Atske-Selassie urged UN…
Climate Change: Inaugural NPS and Stanford Climate Security Fellows Answer the Nation’s Call
Sep 13, 2024
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United States Navy, Daniel Linehan
The Naval Postgraduate School and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability joined forces through an Educational Partnership Agreement to understand and address the impacts of…
Conflict Minerals: UN Experts Call for Global System to Trace Critical Minerals
Sep 13, 2024
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Agence France-Presse
UN experts have called for the creation of a global system to trace the extraction and production of critical minerals that are needed in the…
Yemen: Can the World Stop a Massive Oil Spill in the Middle of a War Zone?
Sep 13, 2024
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Joshua Keating, Vox
Since it was attacked by Houthi rebels in Yemen three weeks ago, a tanker carrying roughly 1 million barrels of crude oil has been immobilized…
Special Envoy Warns Security Council of Escalation, Humanitarian Crisis and Threat of ‘Unprecedented’ Environmental Disaster in Yemen
Sep 12, 2024
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United Nations
Amid rising regional tensions, a national humanitarian crisis and a looming environmental disaster, all stakeholders must put Yemen first, the United Nations official charged with…
Sudan: Conflict, Access Constraints and Floods Undermine FAO Efforts to Support Agriculture and Food Security
Sep 12, 2024
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
The spread of conflict, access challenges and widespread flooding are severely hampering the emergency response efforts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United…
Afghanistan: Trouble in Afghanistan’s Opium Fields: The Taliban War on Drugs
Sep 12, 2024
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International Crisis Group
The Taliban have instituted a ban on narcotics in Afghanistan. While that has led to a massive drop in production, it is hitting the rural…
Conflict, Hunger, and Famine in Sudan
Sep 11, 2024
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Zane Swanson, Anita Kirschenbaum, and Caitlin Welsh
In April 2023, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces spread into a deadly civil war across Sudan. Now, 16…
Elsewhere in Focus: DR Congo—An Absent Peace, Conflict Minerals and Governance
Sep 11, 2024
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Daily Kos
There have been multiple attempts at peace agreement in DR Congo but peace seems to be long time coming. The US, for example, has been…
Myanmar: Extreme Weather Blights Farmers’ Lives in Impoverished Myanmar
Sep 11, 2024
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Irrawaddy
High temperatures, irregular rainfall and floods resulting from the El Nino weather phenomenon have delivered another blow to farmers in central Myanmar who are already…
Egypt/Ethiopia: Egypt-Ethiopia Nile Dam Incident Takes on Military Overtones
Sep 11, 2024
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Atalayar
The tension continues. Egypt, which has opted for a more aggressive approach in its duel with Ethiopia over the Nile Dam, is beginning to mobilise…
Georgia: Project Analyst, Gender in Disaster Risk Reduction
Sep 10, 2024
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UN Women
In October 2024 UN Women, with the generous support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) launched a project Gender in Disaster Risk…
Colombia: Colombia Deadliest Country for Environmentalists in 2023, Rights Group Says
Sep 10, 2024
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Oliver Griffin, Reuters
Colombia, host nation for this year's United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, was the deadliest country for environmentalists and land rights defenders in 2023, with a…
Conflict Minerals: Why Conflict-Free Gold Doesn’t Reduce Conflict
Sep 10, 2024
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Ty Burke, Chicago Boothe Review
US policymakers hoping to reduce violence in the DRC included in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act a requirement that companies…
DRC. How Cooking Demonstrations Can Save lLives in a Village: the Story of Kasendami Muamba
Sep 9, 2024
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COOPI
In the heart of Central Kasai Province, in the Kalomba Health Zone, lies the village of Tshitadi, where the fight against child malnutrition is making…
Mozambique: Empowering Women Facing Conflict and Climate Change Effects in Mozambique
Sep 9, 2024
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CARE
The humanitarian situation in Mozambique’s conflict-affected Cabo Delgado province is deteriorating rapidly. This has been worsened by a severe climate change-induced drought that has exacerbated…
If UN PKO Are to Successfully Fulfill Their Mandates, Climate Change Needs to Be Taken into Account
Sep 9, 2024
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Mission Permanente de la France auprès des Nations Unies à New York
Today, the Security Council convenes for an Open Debate on UN Peacekeeping Operations. France, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Switzerland,…
DRC/Rwanda: Congolese Refugees Imagine a Peaceful Agrarian Future with Their Rwandan Neighbors
Sep 9, 2024
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Nicolas Parent, Peace News
Over 82,000 Congolese refugees are in Rwanda, with many there for nearly three decades. The vast majority (88%) inhabit one of five camps located in…
Timor-Leste: In Diesel-Dependent East Timor, Renewable Energy Transition Remains Slow Despite Government Pledges
Sep 9, 2024
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Victoria Milko, Associated Press
East Timor is at an energy development crossroads. While the small Southeast Asian nation — and one of the world’s youngest countries — has made…