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Toward Sustainable Peace: A New Research Agenda for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management
2017
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Global Environmental Politics Journal
Florian Krampe
This forum reflects upon the current state of research on post-conflict natural resource management. It identifies two dominant perspectives on environmental peacebuilding in the literature:…
The Fifth Column: Understanding the Relationship between Corruption and Conflict
2017
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Transparancy International
Karolina MacLachlan, Dave Allen, Tobias Bock, Katherine Dixon, Rebecca Graves, Hilary Hurd, and Leah Wawro
At the end of the last century, the Western foreign policy consensus was that increases in global wealth, a more interconnected world, and ever greater…
Land Reform in Afghanistan: Full Impact and Sustainability of $41.2 Million USAID Program is Unknown
2017
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Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
According to land reform experts, land reform is generally understood to be efforts to correct problems with land distribution and rights to its use. Since…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment of the Palestinian–Israeli Water Situation
2014
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Marwan Haddad
This paper examines and discusses the prolonged Palestinian–Israeli water conflict, taking into consideration recent formal and informal water negotiations and emphasising the future of water-based…
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…
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…
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…
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);…
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…
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…
Conservation in a Wicked Complex World: Challenges and Solutions
2013
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Edward T. Game, Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil, and Eve McDonald-Madden
Most conservation challenges are complex and possess all the characteristics of so called “wicked” problems. Despite widespread recognition of this complexity conservationists possess a legacy…