Evaluation
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…
A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War
2006
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Annual Review of Political Science
Michael Ross
Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal mechanisms. This paper…
Contesting Resources: Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse
2006
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Public Choice
Katharina Wick & Erwin Bulte
A growing empirical literature links natural resource abundance and "pointiness" to impeded economic growth and civil strife. We develop rent seeking and conflict models that…
Resource Scarcity and the Prevention of Violent Conflicts
2009
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The Peace and Conflict Review
Renée Gendron and Evan Hoffman
This article argues that resource scarcity creates multiple impacts on conflicts. It can increase the chances that a nonviolent conflict will become violent and it…
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…
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…
Mitigating Human Rights Impacts
2014
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Ethical Corporation
A briefing outlining principled corporate management and digging deep to rebuild trust as mechanisms for mitigating human rights impacts and provides guidelines for creating human…
Reconnaissance Investigation of the Rough Diamond Resource Potential and Production Capacity of Côte d’Ivoire
2013
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Peter G. Chirico and Katherine C. Malpeli (USGS)
This report presents the results of a multiyear effort to monitor the diamond mining activities of Côte d’Ivoire’s two main diamond mining areas, Séguéla and…
Targeted Scenario Analysis: A New Approach to Capturing and Presenting Ecosystem Service Values for Decision Makers
2013
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United Nations Development Program
This guidebook provides a step-by-step introduction to Targeted Scenario Analysis (TSA), an innovative analytical approach, developed by UNDP that captures and presents the value of…