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Conference Report for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
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From October 23-25, 2019, more than 250 scholars, practitioners, decisionmakers, and students from 40 countries came together for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.…
A Casualty of Peace? Lessons on De-Militarizing Conservation in the Cordillera del Condor Corridor (Chapter in "Collateral Values of Natural Capital")
Briefs & Development
The resolution in 1998 of the armed conflict between Peru and Ecuador through environmental peace-building negotiations, creating a transboundary conservation area, have been heralded as…
Addressing Climate-Fragility Risks: Linking Peacebuilding, Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods (Monitoring and Evaluation)
Toolkits & Guidance
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…
Spatial and Political Factors in Forest Resource Conflicts: The Eastern Mau Forest Case 1992–2014
Briefs & Development
This paper examines conflicts and forest resource politics in Eastern Mau, which is part of the Mau forest complex in Kenya. Conflict hotspots are mapped…
War-Induced Collapse and Asymmetric Recovery of Large-Mammal Populations in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Briefs & Development
How do large-mammal communities reassemble after being pushed to the brink of extinction? Few data are available to answer this question, as it is rarely…
Disaster Risk Reduction in Conflict Contexts: The State of the Evidence
Briefs & Development
This working paper reviews the state of the evidence on disaster risk reduction (DRR) in conflict-affected contexts. It is intended to stimulate a more explicitly…
Environmental Decision-Making within a Recovering War Zone: The Republic of Iraq (chapter in "Global Case Studies of Collaboration and Transformation")
Briefs & Development
Iraq faces numerous environmental problems including severe pollution, intertwined with a host of other issues, principally because of decades of war, international sanctions, and general…
Beyond Revenues: Measuring and Valuing Environmental and Social Impacts in Extractive Sector Governance
Briefs & Development
Oil, gas and mining projects can generate substantial revenues for host countries. At the same time, extractive activities generate a range of other positive and…
New Method for Environmental Monitoring in Armed Conflict Zones: A Case Study of Syria
Briefs & Development
Today, armed conflict affects some twenty countries, covering an area making up 11% of the surface area of the Earth. Any degradation of nature in…
Mining the Disclosures 2019
Briefs & Development
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…
Evaluation of Environmental Peacebuilding Projects in the Middle East - Towards a Framework that Captures Real Impacts
Briefs & Development
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…
Guidelines for Conflict-Sensitive Adaptation to Climate Change
Briefs & Development
Climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, and reduces access to and the availability of resources – environmental changes that have serious…
Civilian Science: The Potential of Participatory Environmental Monitoring in Areas Affected by Armed Conflicts
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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…
Education and Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Three Projects in Israel and Palestine
Briefs & Development
Environmental peacebuilding has attracted great scholarly and political interest in recent years, but little knowledge is available on the interface of education and environmental peacebuilding.…
In Defense of Land Rights: A Monitoring Report on Land Conflicts in Six Asian Countries
Briefs & 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…
Tackling Global Challenges to Equality and Inclusion through the Gender-Responsive Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Spotlight on SDGs 10, 13 and 16
Briefs & Development
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development carries huge transformative potential. Its vision of putting people and planet first, focusing on sustaining peace, putting gender equality…
State of the Siverskyi Donets Basin and Related Risks Under Military Operations: Technical Report
Briefs & Development
The report, available in English and Ukrainian, includes overview of working materials in the field of protection and use of water resources in the Siverskyi Donets…
Gender and Climate Change: Do Female Parliamentarians Make Difference?
Briefs & Development
This paper investigates whether female political representation in national parliaments influences climate change policy outcomes. Based on data from a large sample of countries, we…
Exploring Community Resilience and Early Warning Solution for Flash Floods, Debris Flow and Landslides in Conflict Prone Villages of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
Briefs & Development
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…
How the End of Armed Conflicts Influence Forest Cover and Subsequently Ecosystem Services Provision? An Analysis of Four Case Studies in Biodiversity Hotspots
Briefs & Development
Ecosystem Services are commonly understood as the goods and services people obtain from nature, such as carbon sequestration, provision of food and fibres, pollination, etc.…
Unexceptional: Assessing Conflict Trends and Peacebuilding Opportunities in the United States
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Americans have long believed that the United States is exceptional among nations, but there are signs that conflict dynamics are threatening the stability of US…
The Dual Track of Democracy Promotion in Post-War Peacebuilding in Cambodia: The Gap Between Institutional Development and Civil Society Mobilisation
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Through consideration of the promotion of democracy in post-war reconstruction in the country, this article aims to explain why anti-government protests in Cambodia have recently…
Stakeholder Participation in Freshwater Monitoring and Evaluation Programs: Applying Thresholds of Potential Concern Within Environmental Flows
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The complex nature of freshwater systems provides challenges for incorporating evidence-based techniques into management. This paper investigates the potential of participatory evidence-based techniques to involve…
Reclaiming Everyday Peace: Local Voices in Measurement and Evaluation After War
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Participatory Monitoring and Evluation, Power Dynamics, and Stakholder Participation: Analysing Dynamics of Participation Between World Vision and Its Stakeholders in The Husalushaka Area Development Programme PM&E
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Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is a concept meant to ensure the extensive involvement of project beneficiaries in all stages of the project or programme…
Disaster Risk Reduction Amidst Armed Conflict: Informal Institutions, Rebel Groups, and Wartime Political Orders
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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…
Conflict Sensitivity and Conservation: Evaluating Design, Implementation & Practice
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This dissertation investigates the use of a conflict sensitivity framework in supporting environmental conservation work. Employing an action research methodology, it consists of a multi-phase…
Every Practitioner a “Knowledge Worker”: Promoting Evaluative Thinking to Enhance Learning and Adaptive Management in International Development
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International community development involves complex, dynamic processes. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) designed to promote evaluative thinking among community development practitioners can foster more complexity-aware monitoring…
Comparable and Yet Context-Sensitive? Improving Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies Through Methodology
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This article shows that the current stalemate in peacebuilding evaluation is due to disagreements between donor agencies, practitioners and scholar-practitioners about the necessity, appropriate level…