Programming
Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
2015
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Hydrological Sciences Journal
Ashok Swain
Water-management issues cut across all sectors of governance and have a critical bearing on many post-conflict challenges. The imperative of adequate water supply, and the…
Contestation and Reconstruction: Natural Capital and Post-Conflict Development in Borderland Regions
2014
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Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
Roger Zetter and Brad Blitz
Though often remote and underdeveloped, borderlands are contested territories. The incorporation of borderlands into the post-conflict state highlights many important land-related paradigms, including the conversion…
Promoting Climate-Resilient Peacebuilding in Fragile States
2015
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
Alec Crawford, Angie Dazé, Anne Hammill, Jo-Ellen Parry, and Alicia Natalia Zamudio
Efforts to help fragile states move onto a path toward stability and sustainability continue to face enormous challenges. Climate change is one of these challenges.…
Fortalecimiento de las capacidades de gestión de los recursos naturales susceptibles de generar conflictos
2012
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United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action
Administrar la tierra y los recursos naturales constituye uno de los desafíos más importantes a los que actualmente se enfrentan los países en desarrollo. La…
Renforcement des capacités pour la gestion harmonieuse et pacifique des ressources naturelles
2012
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United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action
La gestion des terres et des ressources naturelles compte parmi les défis critiques auxquels les pays en développement sont confrontés aujourd’hui. L’exploitation de ressources naturelles…
Strengthening Capacity for Conflict-Sensitive Natural Resource Management
2012
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United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action
The management of land and natural resources is one of the most critical challenges facing developing countries today. The exploitation of high-value natural resources, including…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change
2014
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CNA Military Advisory Board
This report re-examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world. In the…
Renewable Natural Resources: Practical Lessons for Conflict Sensitive Development
2009
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World Bank
Sandra Ruckstuhl
This paper explores how a “conflict and violence sensitive” framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of…