Governance
Exploring Community Resilience and Early Warning Solution for Flash Floods, Debris Flow and Landslides in Conflict Prone Villages of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
2019
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Ashutosh Mohanty, Mujahid Hussain, M. Mishra, D.B. Kattel, and Indrajit Pal
There is a visible paradigm shift in disaster research from hazard and vulnerability assessment to developing framework for community resilience. Further, there is growing recognization…
Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme's Experience with Postconflict Assessment
2009
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Global Governance
Ken Conca and Jennifer Wallace
Environmental challenges create high-stakes choices in war-torn societies. Handled well, they may create a solid foundation for peace and sustainable development; handled poorly, they risk…
Resolving Industrial Plantation Conflicts in Indonesia: Can Mediation Deliver?
2018
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Forest Policy and Economics
Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, John F. McCarthy, and Yurdi Yasmi
During the expansion of industrial plantations across the Global South, forest and land conflicts have emerged on a very large scale. Despite recent reforms of resource…
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…
Monitoring Ecological Change during Rapid Socio-Economic and Political Transitions: Colombian Ecosystems in the Post-Conflict Era
2017
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Science Direct
Carlos A. Sierra, Miguel Mahecha, Germán Poveda, Esteban Álvarez-Dávila, Víctor H. Gutierrez-Velez, Björn Reuf, Hannes Feilhauerg, Jesús Anáyah, Dolors Armenterasi, Ana M. Benavides, Corina Buendia, Álvaro Duquec, Lina M. Estupiñan-Suarez, and Catalina Go
After more than 50-years of armed conflict, Colombia is now transitioning to a more stable social and political climate due to a series of peace…
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…
Análisis, Prevención y Resolución de Conflictos por el Aqua en América Latin y el Caribe
2015
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United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean - Natural Resources and Infrastructure Division
Liber Martin and Juan Bautisto Justo
Conflicts over water in Latin America and the Caribbean have increased considerably in recent years, reaching high levels of complexity and impacts on economies, the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Financing the Unbanked: How Community Savings Groups Can Create Pathways for Legal Artisanal Gold in Burkina Faso
2023
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IMPACT
Kady Seguin, Victoria Reichel, Raphael Deberdt
This paper explores the connections between financial inclusion, formalization of artisanal miners, and illicit trade. The research demonstrates why financial inclusion is a crucial component…
Climate Change, Food, and Nutrition Policies in Uganda: Are They Gender- and Nutrition-Sensitive?
2020
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CGIAR
Patricia Ahuro Bamanyaki
This brief draws attention to some gaps in the mainstreaming of gender and nutrition in climate change, and food and nutrition-related policy documents, which may…
Evaluation of Environmental Peacebuilding Projects in the Middle East - Towards a Framework that Captures Real Impacts
2019
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Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences
Charleen Malkowsky
This research was conducted in order to close the knowledge gap relating to suitable evaluation methodologies for Environmental Peacebuilding approaches. While the field of environmental peacebuilding continuously…
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…
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…
Building for the Longterm: Avoiding the Resource Curse in Afghanistan
2014
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Global Witness
Afghanistan’s natural resources offer both hope and risk. Many people look to mining and oil to drive development as the international presence winds down. But…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Youth Review: Environmental Peacebuilding, Conservation, and Nonprofit Cooperation [Video]
2024
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Environmental Law Institute
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the…
Braiding Knowledge Systems as Environmental Peacebuildinng: A Four-Dimensional Analysis for Co-Applying Idigenous and Non-Indigenous Worldviews in Great Lakes Water Governance
2022
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International Christian University
Natalija Vojno
Environmental peacebuilding has evolved since Conca and Dabelko’s seminal work on peacemaking to now include preventative interventions as well as those that occur post-conflict. In…
An Overview of the African Peacebuilding Network's Contribution to African Peacebuilding Literature
2023
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African Peacebuilding Network
Godwin Onuoha
This working paper surveys, documents, and analyzes the contributions of APN scholars to the knowledge and practice of peacebuilding in Africa against the background of…