Livelihoods
Livelihoods are the foundation of economic and social well-being for individuals, households, and communities. In conflict-affected countries, where livelihood insecurity is high, the risk of violent conflict and peacebuilding failure is also elevated. In such countries, natural resources often provide the foundation for both livelihoods and the national economy. Effective management of environmental issues is essential for sustainable livelihoods and socio-economic recovery, and this can be achieved through environmental peacebuilding practices.M&E of livelihood programs can help to assess their impact on state legitimacy, provision of public goods and services, and capacity development. By measuring the success of livelihood programs, stakeholders can identify gaps and make informed decisions for future interventions. Additionally, M&E can help to ensure that environmental peacebuilding practices are integrated into the livelihood programs and contribute to long-term sustainability.
There are 77 resources related to Livelihoods.
Ground for Peace: Land Restoration for International Peace and Security
2024
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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Beatrice Mosello, Mary Elizabeth Potts, Hector Morales Munoz, Sandor Msdar, and Oli Brown
For more than three billion people, land is core to their survival, wellbeing, and dignity. However, with between 20–40% of total global land area degraded…
Protecting Groundwater
2014
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EcoPeace Middle East
EcoPeace Middle East
Groundwater is the world’s most important source of freshwater, constituting 97% of the Earth’s freshwater reserves. However, in the Mediterranean Region, groundwater quality along the…
Using a Novel Climate-Water Conflict Vulnerability Index to Capture Double Exposures in Lake Chad
2017
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Regional Environmental Change
Uche T. Okpara, Lindsay C. Stringer, and Andrew J. Dougill
Climate variability is amongst an array of threats facing agricultural livelihoods, with its effects unevenly distributed. With resource conflict being increasingly recognised as one significant…
Assessing the Influence of Landscape Conservation and Protected Areas on Social Wellbeing Using Random Forest Machine Learning
2024
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Nature
Joshua Fisher, Summer Allen, Greg Yetman, and Linda Pistolesi
The urgency of interconnected social-ecological dilemmas such as rapid biodiversity loss, habitat loss and fragmentation, and the escalating climate crisis have led to increased calls…
Biodiversity, peace and conflict: understandings the connections
2023
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SSRN
Lucy Rist, Cibele Queiroz, and Albert Norström
Trajectories of human conflict have direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem function. These occur across terrestrial, marine and freshwater systems via the well-established…
Understanding the Peace Effects of P-REC Funded Streetlights in Goma, DRC
2022
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Energy Peace Partners
In May – June 2022, Energy Peace Partners (EPP) travelled to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo to start gathering data on the peace…
Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict
2020
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Earth's Future
Katharine J. Mach, W. Neil Adger, Halvard Buhaug, Marshall Burke, James D. Fearon, Christopher B. Field, Cullen S. Hendrix, Caroline M. Kraan,Jean‐Francois Maystadt, John O'Loughlin, Philip Roessler, Jürgen Scheffran,Kenneth A. Schultz, and Nina von Uexku
The potential links between climate and conflict are well studied, yet disagreement about the specific mechanisms and their significance for societies persists. Here, we build…
Opportunities for Danish Stabilisation Policy to Engage with Climate-and Livelihood-Related Conflict
2021
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Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Peers Schouten
This DIIS Working Paper focuses on identifying evolving notions of fragility that could strengthen Danish stabilisation efforts in the Horn and Sahel. It foregrounds notions…
Survey Report on Elephant Movement, Human-Elephant Conflict Situation, and Possible Intervention Sites in and around Kutupalong Camp, Cox's Bazaar
2018
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International Union for the Conservation of Nature and UN High Commissioner for Refugees
IUCN Bangladesh, with support from UNHCR, started a project entitled ‘Biodiversity Conflict Mitigation around the Refugee Camp of Cox’s Bazar District’ with a view to…
Intrastate Environmental Peacebuilding: A Review of the Literature
2021
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World Development Journal
McKenzie F. Johnson, Luz Rodríguez, and Manuela Quijano Hoyos
As a discipline, environmental peacebuilding “integrates natural resource management in conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution, and recovery to build resilience in communities affected by conflict” (EnPAX…
Addressing Climate-Fragility Risks: Linking Peacebuilding, Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods (Monitoring and Evaluation)
2019
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adelphi, UN Environment, and European Union
This M&E note supports the monitoring and evaluation of strategies, policies and projects that seek to increase resilience by linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding, and…
Mining the Disclosures 2019
2019
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Responsible Sourcing Network
For the sixth consecutive year, Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) is analyzing corporate compliance under Special Disclosure Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act (otherwise known as…
Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South: Conceptual Approaches
2017
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CRC Press
Maarten Bavinck, Lorenzo Pellegrini, and Erik Mostert
Inhabitants of poor, rural areas in the Global South heavily depend on natural resources in their immediate vicinity. Conflicts over and exploitation of these resources…
In Defense of Land Rights: A Monitoring Report on Land Conflicts in Six Asian Countries
2019
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Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
Private sector investments in agriculture have been increasing in Asia. This increase in agricultural investments has contributed to intensified competition for agricultural lands. Forest communities…
Linking Mining with Sustainable Development in Afghanistan: The Value of Community-Based Monitoring Approaches
2018
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Journal of Multidisciplinary Reseach at Trent
Roohullah Rahimi
This research attempts to show that community-based monitoring in the mining sector is rooted in the unease about the negative social and environmental impacts of…
What the Environment Has to Do with Peacebuilding [Podcast]
2018
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Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Carl Bruch
In this episode of “On Human Rights,” we have an interview from the recent Nature of Peace conference at Lund University. Our senior researcher Alejandro Fuentes interviews…
Social Capital, Conflict, and Adaptive Collaborative Governance: Exploring the Dialectic
2015
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Ecology and Society
Cynthia McDougall and Mani Ram Banjade
Previously lineal and centralized natural resource management and development paradigms have shifted toward the recognition of complexity and dynamism of social-ecological systems, and toward more…
Conflict Minerals: Information on Artisanal Mined Gold and Efforts to Encourage Responsible Sourcing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2017
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United States Government Accountability Office
United States Government Accountability Office
The supply chain for artisanal and small-scale mined (ASM) gold—a significant driver of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) economy—involves multiple actors, according to…
Conflict Timber: Dimensions of the Problem in Asia and Africa
2004
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USAID
Jamie Thomson and Ramzy Kanaan
Conflict timber—conflict financed or sustained through the harvest and sale of timber (Type 1), or conflict emerging as a result of competition over timber or…
In Search of Protection and Livelihoods: Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Dadaab Refugee Camps on Host Communities
2010
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Government of Kenya, Government of Denmark, Government of Norway
The Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya’s North Eastern Province comprises the three camps of Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo, which officially accommodate around 270.000 predominantly Somali…
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…
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…
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…
Framing and Responding to Climate-Related Security Risks in Swedish Development Cooperation
2020
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Malin Mobjörk and Veronica Brodén Gyberg
Societies worldwide are increasingly facing security challenges posed by climate change. The impacts of climate change exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and undermine human security, and the…
Refugees and Host Environments -- A Review of Current and Related Literature
1995
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University of Oxford
Thomas Hoerz
The natural environment of refugee hosting areas - or better: the neglect of it - is not only a sad chapter in the annals of…
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…
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…
Using Machine Learning and Remote Sensing to Track Land Use/Land Cover Changes Due to Armed Conflict
2023
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Science of The Total Environment
Saeed Mhanna, Landon J.S. Halloran, François Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, and Philip Brunner
Armed conflicts have detrimental impacts on the environment, including land systems. The prevailing understanding of the relation between Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and armed conflict…
Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Program: Underinvestment in Post-Conflict Transformation
2004
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World Development
Bill H. Kinsey
In Zimbabwe’s current crisis, it is easy to overlook the fact that the country had a resettlement program for two decades before the large-scale, politically…
What Works in Practice? Responding to Complexity in International Development Monitoring and Evaluation
2019
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George Washington University
Kathryn Hendren
The integration of complexity into study and practice of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has been accompanied by increased demands on M&E teams. Practitioners must now meet accountability…