Peace and Security Operations
Peace and security operations have a significant impact on the environment, and their environmental practices, considerations, and approaches have been increasingly recognized and addressed in recent years, particularly by UN agencies. These operations, including peacekeeping and peacebuilding activities, have the potential to support and build national capacities for better environmental management.Through Environmental Peacebuilding M&E, the gaps, weaknesses and strengths in peace and security operations can be identified in their environmental practices, make improvements to minimize negative impacts and maximize positive outcomes, and ensure that these activities contribute to environmental sustainability and peacebuilding, especially on the issues of water, energy, solid and hazardous waste, wastewater, wildlife and management of cultural and historical sites.
There are 21 resources related to Peace and Security Operations.
Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations
2018
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International Peace Institute
Lucile Maertens and Malkit Shoshan
The 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, triggered by the UN mission there, killed more than 9,000 people and affected nearly 807,000. This disastrous case drew…
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…
Climate-Sensitive Programming in International Security: An Analysis of UN Peacekeeping Operations and Special Political Missions
2022
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International Peacekeeping
Cesare M. Scartozzi
Over the past three decades, United Nations (UN) Peace Operations have become increasingly multidimensional and integrated. Blue helmets, originally deployed to provide security and enforce…
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…
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:…
Progress Report on Supporting Local Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
2014
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UNDP
Henrik F. Larsen
A Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord signed in December 1997 ended the decades-long insurgency, allowing for the recognition of the rights of the peoples…
Landmines and Livelihoods in Afghanistan: Evaluating the Benefits of Mine Action
2013
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Ted Paterson, Barry Pound, and Abdul Q. Ziaee
Mine action started in Afghanistan and, globally, has grown into a billion-dollar endeavour. On most measures, Afghanistan remains the world’s largest mine action programme, which…
Making the Case for Systematic, Gender-Based Analysis in Sustainable Peace Buidling
2016
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Conflict Resolution Quarterly
Dennis Sandole and Ingrid Staroste
In this article, we address protracted, often recurring violent conflict, arguing that the failure to solve entrenched conflicts and build sustainable peace is due in…
Disaster Risk Reduction and Protracted Violent Conflict
2019
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German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Rodrigo Mena, Dorothea Hilhorst, and Katie Peters
This report is part of the project ‘When disasters and conflict collide: uncovering the truth’, a collaboration between the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation…
Disaster Risk Reduction Amidst Armed Conflict: Informal Institutions, Rebel Groups, and Wartime Political Orders
2018
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Disasters
Colin Walsh
Extant research has explored the effect of natural hazards on the risk of armed conflict, but very few studies have examined how conflict dynamics affect…
Efficacy of Informal Peace Committees to Peacebuilding: Evidence from Seke District, Zimbabwe
2017
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African Evaluation Journal
Norman Chivasa
In recent years, informal peace committees have rapidly made their mark either as precautionary or as response mechanisms to particular conflicts. Their main purpose is…
Does Peacebuilding Build Peace? Liberal (Mis)Steps in the Peace Process
1999
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Security Dialogue
Charles-Phillipe David
Avoiding Perplexity: Complexity-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation for UN Peace Operations
2016
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Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Charles Hunt
This chapter explores the potential of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) informed by Complexity theory for UN peace operations. An emphasis on policing recognises that UN…
Challenges of Local Ownership: Understanding the Outcomes of the International Community’s ‘Light Footprint’ Approach to the Nepal Peace Process
2018
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Jasmine-Kim Westendorf
This article investigates whether a ‘light footprint’ approach to peacekeeping and peacebuilding by the international community more effectively addresses local drivers of conflict than the…
Analogue Crisis, Digital Renewal? Current Dilemmas of Peacebuilding
2020
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Globalizations
Oliver P. Richmond and Ioannis Tellidis
The international architecture of peacebuilding and statebuilding, with the United Nations’ efforts central among them, is currently responding to a shift from ‘analogue’ to ‘digital’…
Terminal Evaluation of the UNEP/GEF Project "Strengthening Law Enforcement Capabilities to Combat Wildlife Crime for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Species in South Africa: (Target - Rhinoceros)" GEF ID 4937
2019
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UNEP Evaluation Office
Dave Balfour
This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP-GEF funded project implemented between 2014 and 2019. The project’s overall objective was to improve the effectiveness…
Delivering the Promise of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts (FCAC): A Case Study of the NGO GOAL's Response to the Syria Conflict
2021
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Progress in Disaster
Sonny S. Patel, Bernard McCaul, Gabriela Cáceres, Laura E.R. Peters, Ronak B. Patel, and Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) has helped to reduce global disaster risk, but there has been a lack of progress in disaster…
Civilian Science: The Potential of Participatory Environmental Monitoring in Areas Affected by Armed Conflicts
2019
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Doug Weir, Dan McQuillian, and Robert A. Francis
Legal and policy initiatives to address the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts and their impact on people, ecosystems and sustainable development are highly dependent on…
Environmental Conflict and Cooperation
2019
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Routledge
James R. Lee
Environmental Conflict and Cooperation explores the evolution of environmental conflict as a field of research and the study of cooperation as an alternative to war. Over…
(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…
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…