Cooperation
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…
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…
Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
2018
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UN Women
“Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, UN Women’s new flagship report, provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of…
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…
Transboundary Conservation and Militarized Interstate Disputes
2014
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Political Geography
Karina Barquet, Paivi Lujala, and Jan Ketil Rød
Advocates of transboundary conservation argue that borderlands can be a source of cooperation between neighboring states that previously engaged in conflict. It has been stated that, by…
Environmental Cooperation as the Instrument of Conflict Transformation in East Asia
2018
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Journal of Comparative Politics
Cabada Ladislav and Sarka Waisova
East Asia is an area with high number of political militarized conflicts, but also with high biodiversity and fast environmental degradation. A decade ago there…
Evaluating Environmental Conflict Resolution: Practitioners, Projects, and the Movement
2018
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Conflict Resolution Quarterly
Micah Fisher and Tina Sablan
Environmental conflict is complex and variable, and over time, a concerted field has developed to study processes for collaboration and resolution. This article examines the…
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…
(Brundtland Report) Our Common Future, Chapter 11: Peace, Security, Development, and the Environment
1987
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United Nations
World Commission on Environment and Development
1. Among the dangers facing the environment, the possibility of nuclear war, or military conflict of a lesser scale involving weapons of mass destruction, is…
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…
Afghanistan Reconnected: Regional Economic Security Beyond 2014
2014
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East-West Institute
Sarah Stern and Anna Mitri
Afghanistan’s economic development is at a critical and exciting juncture as international troops withdraw at the end of this year, and the country elects a…
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…
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…
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…
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…