Monitoring
Practical Guide: Mines and Communities (abridged version)
2015
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American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative
The Republic of Guinea holds one-third of the world’s bauxite reserves, significant deposits of gold, diamonds, and some of the world’s most prized iron ore…
Guide Pratique: Mines & Communautés (version abrégée)
2015
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American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative
La République de Guinée possède 30 % de la réserve mondiale de bauxite, d’importantes réserves d’or et de diamants, ainsi que de dépôts de minerai…
Guide Pratique: Mines & Communautés
2015
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American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative
La République de Guinée possède 30 % de la réserve mondiale de bauxite, d’importantes réserves d’or et de diamants, ainsi que de dépôts de minerai…
Nexus Meets Crisis: A Review of Conflict, Natural Resources and the Humanitarian Response in Darfur with Reference to the Water Energy Food Nexus
2015
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International Journal of Water Resources Development
Brendan Bromwich
Darfur has been widely used as a case study by both those arguing for causality between environmental scarcity and war and those disputing it. This…
Weather Shocks and Violence against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
2015
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Center for Effective Global Action
Sara Cools, Martin Flatø, and Andreas Kotsadam
This study uses variation in rainfall to study how extreme shocks to income affect intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that women experiencing…
Political Violence, Land Reform and Child Health: Results from Zimbabwe
2014
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Center for Effective Global Action
Olga N. Shemyakina
The article examines the impact of politically-motivated violence in Zimbabwe following the 2000 referendum and the accompanying it controversial land reform on children's health, measured…
Fighting Windmills in Eastern Congo? The Ambiguous Impact of the 'Conflict Minerals' Movement
2015
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The Extractive Industries and Society
Ben Radley and Christoph Vogel
The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently undergoing rapid reform of its governance structure…
Integrating Climate Change into Peacebuilding
2014
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Climatic Change
Richard Matthew
Peacebuilding countries are concentrated in areas of heightened vulnerability to climate change impacts, and almost certainly lack the capacity to manage these impacts. In spite…
Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher? [Interactive Map]
2015
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Foreign Policy
Kalev Leetaru
Using the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project, which monitors local media around the world (and live-translates it from 65 languages, along…
Afghanistan: Western Basin Water Resources
2014
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ADB
ADB
The Western Basin Water Resource Management and Irrigated Agriculture Development Project is a ‘sector’ project under the Natural Resources Sector in Afghanistan. The project was based…
USAID/Philippines Success Story of the Environmental Governance (EcoGov) Project (Final Evaluation Report)
2011
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USAID
USAID
The Philippines Environmental Governance Project Phase 2 Project (EcoGov) is an initiative of the Government of the Philippines, implemented in partnership with the Department of…
Socio-Economic Analysis of Natural Resources in Mindanao
2013
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Department of Political Science, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Yuri Oki, Yasukuni Okubo, Conrado R. Miranda, Shuichi Rokugawa
The study is aimed at investigating the solution to sub-national conflicts. We focus on one of the root causes of sub-national conflicts, which is the…
Using Natural Resources Management as a Peacebuilding Tool: Observations and Lessons from Central Western Mindanao
2012
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Journal of Peacebuilding and Development
Darren Evans
The conflict in Mindanao, Philippines, is widely presented as a religious one, often within a wider Southeast Asian context. Yet many of the underlying disputes…
Ground Truth in Building Human Security
2012
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U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
Douglas Batson
This paper describes a world in which indigenous peoples are vulnerable to exploitation and forced eviction when land disputes occur. It shows us the role…
Afghanistan Reconnected: Regional Economic Security Beyond 2014
2014
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East-West Institute
Sarah Stern and Anna Mitri
Afghanistan’s economic development is at a critical and exciting juncture as international troops withdraw at the end of this year, and the country elects a…
Climate Change Strategies: Afghanistan
2012
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Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has today welcomed a recent national conference during which local road maps for achieving sustainable, inclusive and…
Improving Natural Resource Governance: A Key to Ensuring Peace and Stability in Mindanao, Philippines
2010
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Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management
Cynthia Brady, Oliver Agoncillo, Maria Zita Butardo-Toribio, Buenaventura Dolom
Following decades of conflict, in 1996 the Moro National Liberation Front signed a peace agreement with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP);…
Food Insecurity and Conflict Dynamics: Causal Linkages and Complex Feedbacks
2013
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International Journal of Security and Development
Cullen S. Hendrix and Henk-Jan Brinkman
This paper addresses two related topics: 1) the circular link between food insecurity and conflict, with particular emphasis on the Sahel, and 2) the potential…
Warfare in Biodiversity Hotspots
2009
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Conservation Biology
Thor Hanson, Thomas M. Brooks, Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca, Michael Hoffmann, John F. Lamoreux, Gary Machlis, Cristina G. Mittermeier, Russell A. Mittermeier, and John D. Pilgrim
Conservation efforts are only as sustainable as the social and political context within which they take place. The weakening or collapse of sociopolitical frameworks during wartime…
Mainstreaming the Environment into Postwar Recovery: The Case for 'Ecological Development'
2012
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International Affairs
Richard Milburn
In the past decade there has been an increased realization of the shared geography between biodiversity and conflict, with recent research finding that over 80 percent…
Conserving Forest Biodiversity in Times of Violent Conflict
2003
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Cambridge Journals
Jeffrey A. McNeely
Forests are often frontiers, and like all frontiers, they are sites of dynamic social, ecological, political and economic changes. Such dynamism involves constantly changing advantages…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Field Report from Queen Elizabeth National Park
2009
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IISD
Rob Craig
The Conserving the Peace project is being implemented by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) with financial support from the MacArthur Foundation, and with…
Promoting Conflict Sensitivity in Transboundary Protected Areas: A Role for Peace and Conflict Impact Assessments
2010
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IISD
Anne Hammill & Alec Crawford
Conflict is detrimental to conservation, while conservation is, in many respects, inherently conflictual. How can we reconcile the goals of peace and biodiversity conservation? One…
Gorillas in the Midst: Assessing the Peace and Conflict Impacts of International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) Activities
2008
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IISD
Anne Hammill & Alec Crawford
Conservation work in conflict zones and across international borders has impacts on more than just wildlife populations and their habitats; it can also have a…
Healing the Rift: Peace Building in and around Protected Areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Albertine Rift
2010
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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) & International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Kujirakwinja, D., Shamavu, P., Hammill, A., Crawford, A., Bamba, A., and Plumptre, AJ.
All conservation managers have to manage conflict in their work. Whether it is dealing with a farmer who has lost a cow to a wolf…
Atlantic Council on South Asia Instability [Video]
2013
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C-SPAN
Fatemeh Aman, Shuja Nawaz, Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney, Barnett R. Rubin, Barbara Slavin
We are focusing today on Iran and its eastern neughbors, specifically Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. While Iran is often considered a Middle Eastern country, in…
Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation: Global Analysis of the Resilience of International River Treaties to Increased Water Variability
2014
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The World Bank Development Research Group
Shlomi Dinar, David Katz, Lucia De Stefano, Brian Blankespoor
Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially…
Extractive Industries and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: The Role of Social Accountability
2013
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United States Institute of Peace
Sadaf Lakhani
Recent estimates of deposits in Afghanistan indicate that mineral extraction could contribute to the economic growth the country needs to sustain its efforts in peacebuilding…
Environmental Guidebook on Military Operations
2008
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DoD Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Network and Information Exchange (DENIX)
Hanna Uusitalo, Antti Kivipelto, Sara Kajander, Ava Sovijärvi, Carl-Gustav Ebbhagen, Svante Olsson, Annica Waleij, Birgitta Liljedahl, Åsa Scott Andersson, Timothy Bosetti, homas Schultheis, Susan Clark-Sestak & William Nicholls
This guidebook was developed by a multinational working group consisting of representatives from the defense organizations of Finland, Sweden, and the United States. It reflects…
The Trampled Grass: Mitigating the Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Environment
2001
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Grammarians, Inc.
James Shambaugh, Judy Oglethorpe & Rebecca Ham
The Biodiversity Support Program's Armed Conflict and the Environment Project ran from 1998 to 2001 to identify and raise awareness about the negative impacts of…