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Gender, AI, and Disaster Response: Navigating the Risks of Technological Innovation Amidst Climate Breakdown
Mar 18, 2025
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Maryruth Belsey Priebe
The frequency and severity of climate-related disasters has risen alongside a growing deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve disaster response and recovery operations. Disaster…
Towards a Climate Security Observatory 2.0: Lessons from a Year of Implementation
Jan 7, 2025
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CGIAR
In 2023, the Climate Security Observatory (CSO) launched its first public version, aiming to bridge the gap between climate science and resilient peace. After a…
Seeking Translation Assistance for Environmental Peacebuilding Glossary of Terms and Concepts
Jan 6, 2025
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is leading the development of an Environmental Peacebuilding Glossary of Terms and Concepts. The Glossary will be published by Routledge,…
Call for Nominations: Al Moumin Award for Thought Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding
Dec 12, 2024
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is seeking nominations for the 2025 Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding. The award and lecture are named…
Afghanistan: How Data Analysis, Community Engagement, and GIS Delivered a Reliable Water Source to an Afghan Community
Nov 25, 2024
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Alice Brindley and Bella Brittan, DAI
In early 2024, the Afghanistan Value Chains Program (AVCP), funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), launched an initiative in northern Afghanistan aimed…
Seeking Translation Assistance for Environmental Peacebuilding Glossary of Terms and Concepts
Nov 19, 2024
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is leading the development of an Environmental Peacebuilding Glossary of Terms and Concepts. The Glossary will be published by Routledge,…
Afghanistan: Geospatial Analysis Conveys Current Conditions under the Taliban
Nov 13, 2024
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Olivier Cottray
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, one of its first policies was to ban poppy cultivation. The halt in a trade…
Advancing an Internet Research Agenda for CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security
Oct 31, 2024
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Ibukun Taiwo
As digital platforms increasingly influence social interactions, social scientists have had to evolve their methodologies to capture this transformation. At CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security, the…
Liberia: Foresters Trained to Identify Timber Using Technology amid Smuggling Rise
Oct 16, 2024
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FrontPage Africa
The United States Forest Service (USFS) has sponsored the training of seven Liberian foresters in identifying timber species using science-based technology through smartphones as part of the…
Laos: New Data on Agent Orange Use during the US’s Secret War in Laos
Oct 7, 2024
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Philipp Barthelme
During the Vietnam War, the US military sprayed more than 74 million litres of Agent Orange and other herbicides, causing detrimental and ongoing environmental and…
Detecting Yemen’s Informal Dumpsites from Space
Oct 1, 2024
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Hanna Schulten
The war in Yemen has profoundly affected solid waste management, increasing open dumping and with it risks to the environment and public health. In this…
Ukraine/Russia: Planet’s Astounding Satellite Images Map Russian War Crimes in Ukraine
Sep 30, 2024
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes
Right after Planet Labs sealed an agreement to supply NATO with its remarkable satellite imagery, which tracks rockets and cosmodromes, ships and submarines across the…
NOW LIVE: EnPAx MOOC on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace
Sep 17, 2024
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and SDGAcademyX
EnPAx and SDGAcademyX are pleased to announce that our historic, popular course on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace is now live. This fifth iteration of…
War and Climate Change Intensify Global Water-Related Conflicts
Sep 16, 2024
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Neeraja Kulkarni
The Pacific Institute recently updated its Water Conflict Chronology—a database of water-conflict events that began to take form in the 1980s. The recent updates include…
SAVE THE DATE: EnPAx Announces Dates for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
Sep 2, 2024
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa
Plan to connect and be inspired! Plan your travel budgets. Plan your research. Plan to attend the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding!
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association…
Colombia: Renewable Energy in Colombia Boosted with a Line of Financing
Aug 5, 2024
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Prensa Latina
Any local government authority in Colombia will be able to access, from today on, a new line of financing for the development of generation projects…
Will Critical Minerals Be Another Poisoned Chalice for Africa?
Jul 28, 2024
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James Boafo and Rochelle Spencer
The world's journey to a decarbonised energy future requires a shift towards the development of low-carbon technologies. The development of these low-carbon technologies in the…
Call for Contributions to the Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms
Jul 24, 2024
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is excited to announce the launch of a process to develop a Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms and to invite contributions…
Low-Income Countries Host 75% of EJAtlas' Environmental Conflicts
Jun 12, 2024
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Mirage
The Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas), created by researchers at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), has documented…
DRC: Blockchain Ensures Conflict-Free Gold from DRC: Society Artisanal and Minespider Partnership
Jun 8, 2024
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Kelly Cromley, CoinTrust
Society Artisanal, an organization dedicated to exporting conflict-free artisanal gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has announced a collaboration with Minespider, a technology…
Women and Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia Resist Dispossession of Resource-Rich Lands
Jun 8, 2024
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Franz Chávez
There is a natural relationship between women and their attachment to the land, the natural environment, clean water, and uncontaminated food, agreed the women interviewed…
DRC: Society Artisanal Partners with Minespider to Track Conflict-Free Gold from the DRC
Jun 6, 2024
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Jane Bentham, Global Mining Review
Society Artisanal, an organisation that aims to export conflict-free artisanal gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has announced its partnership with Minespider, a…
Afghanistan: 'Critical' Lack of Clean Water Stalks Flood-Hit Afghanistan
Jun 5, 2024
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Mahdi Mehran, Susannah Walden, and Abdullah Hasrat
After unusually heavy spring rainfalls unleashed torrents of muddy water that swept away loved ones and livelihoods across multiple Afghan provinces last month, it is clean…
Ukraine/Russia: Ukrainian ‘Ecocide App’ Calculates Russia’s Bill for Environmental Damage
May 30, 2024
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Donagh Cagney, Euractiv
Ukraine’s environment has been the “silent victim” of the Russian invasion, according to the country’s environment minister Ruslan Strilets, but thanks to app-wielding Ukrainian citizens,…
Colombia: In a Village Divided, Farmers Stall Massive Copper Mine in Colombian Andes
May 29, 2024
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Austin Landis, Mongabay
The Quebradona project aims to extract nearly 1.4 million metric tons of copper over a construction and production period of nearly 30 years, plus 2.6…
Opportunity to Contribute to a "Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms"
May 28, 2024
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is leading a process to develop a "Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms." This glossary will help to consolidate and build…
Ukraine: Eagles Shifting Flight Paths to Avoid Ukraine Conflict, Scientists Find
May 20, 2024
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Nicola Davis, Guardian
Eagles that have migratory routes through Ukraine have shifted their flight paths to avoid areas affected by the conflict, researchers have found. GPS data has…
CCC Commissioner Underscores Empowering Women
May 19, 2024
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Daily Tribune
The Climate Change Commission (CCC) emphasized the critical role of women in addressing climate change and advocating for gender equality in ecological governance at the…
DRC: Residents Worry as DRC Rebels Frantically Exploit Coltan Mine
May 17, 2024
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Zanem Nety Zaidi, Voice of America
Reputed to be the coltan capital of the world, the mining town of Rubaya, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has fallen into the…
Water: The Connection between Water, Data and Peace
May 17, 2024
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
WaPOR, which stands for Water Productivity through Open-access of Remotely-sensed derived data, is a tool created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United…