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Health Consequences of an Armed Conflict in Zamboanga, Philippines Using a Syndromic Surveillance Database
Briefs & Development
The Zamboanga armed conflict was a 19-day long encounter in the Philippines in 2013 that displaced 119,000 people from their homes. This study describes the…
Health Consequences of an Armed Conflict in Zamboanga, Philippines Using a Syndromic Surveillance Database
Briefs & Development
The Zamboanga armed conflict was a 19-day long encounter in the Philippines in 2013 that displaced 119,000 people from their homes. This study describes the…
Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security: Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State
Briefs & Development
As the world’s most traded commodity, oil production is typically well monitored and analyzed. It also has established links to geopolitics, international relations, and security. Despite this attention,…
Beyond Richardson: Modeling Conflict in a World of Complexity and Climate Change
Briefs & Development
Richardson's pioneering work on modelling conflict and arms races has demonstrated that mathematics can contribute to peace and conflict research. Limitations of Richardson's model have…
Armed Conflict and Child Mortality in Africa: A Geospatial Analysis
Briefs & Development
A substantial portion of child deaths in Africa take place in countries with recent history of armed conflict and political instability. However, the extent to…
Composite Water Management Index
Briefs & Development
India is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history and millions of lives and livelihoods are under threat. Currently, 600 million Indians face…
2017 Resource Governance Index
Briefs & Development
This report presents the key findings and core messages of the 2017 Resource Governance Index. The index measures the quality of resource governance in 81…
Backdraft #9: Joshua Busby on Mapping Hotspots of Climate and Security Vulnerability [Podcast]
Library
Maps help us to grasp complex ideas, such as patterns of risk and vulnerability, but the stories they tell can have significant implications. “It’s very…
The Effects of Migration on Livelihoods, Land Management, and Vulnerability to Natural Disasters in the Harpan Watershed in Western Nepal
Briefs & Development
Migration is increasing in the middle hills of Nepal, and it has diverse consequences for the people remaining behind, their livelihoods, and the way they…
Towards a Multi-scale Approach for an Earth Observation-Based Assessment of Natural Resource Exploitation in Conflict Regions
Briefs & Development
The exploitation of resources, if not properly managed, can lead to spoiling natural habitats as well as to threatening people’s health, livelihoods and security. The…
Does Artisanal Mining Increase the Risk of Sexual Violence? Micro-Level Evidence from Eastern Congo
Briefs & Development
DR Congo’s natural resource abundance has featured in policy debates and amongst advocacy groups as the prime example of ‘conflict minerals’ driving conflict-related sexual violence.…
Civil Conflict Sensitivity to Growing-Season Drought
Briefs & Development
To date, the research community has failed to reach a consensus on the nature and significance of the relationship between climate variability and armed conflict.…
Agriculture as a Funding Source of ISIS: A GIS and Remote Sensing Analysis
Briefs & Development
Agriculture is an important source of income for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which currently rules over large parts of the breadbaskets…
Assembling Evidence for a Land and Property Restitution Database during the Syrian Civil War
Briefs & Development
The enormity of the refugee population generated by the Syrian civil war will present significant dilemmas for land and property restitution once the war ends.…
Can Community-Based Land Adjudication and Registration Improve Household Land Tenure Security? Evidence from Afghanistan
Briefs & Development
Unlike in many developing contexts, land title regularization and registration projects in Afghanistan have for the most part eschewed judicial adjudication and recording of title…
The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar: A Dispatch from an Internet Revolution in Progress
Briefs & Development
For six weeks last October and November, just before Myanmar held its landmark elections, I joined a team of design ethnographers in the countryside interviewing…
Online Identification of Conflict Related Environmental Damage
Blog
In this blog, Wim Zwinenburg (PAX) and Eliot Higgins (Bellingcat) discuss the open source intelligence tools that they used to recover data on environmental damage…
Climate Data Can Be Critical in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States – Here’s How to Get It
Blog
When war breaks out, what happens to the weather forecast? Violent conflict disrupts many essential services in developing countries and one of the most overlooked…
Accessing and Using Climate Data and Information in Fragile Data-Poor States
Briefs & Development
The vulnerability of populations in fragile states to weather and climate variability is typically much higher than in other countries. These countries, and their populations,…
Use of Upgraded Evidence in Cadaster Approaches for Syrian Refugee Return
Briefs & Development
The enormity of the Syrian refugee crisis in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, together with the difficulties of their livelihoods and the burden placed on host…
Use of Upgraded Evidence in Cadaster Approaches for Syrian Refugee Return
Briefs & Development
The enormity of the Syrian refugee crisis in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, together with the difficulties of their livelihoods and the burden placed on host…
Early Warning Early Action in East Africa: Mechanisms for Rapid Decision Making
Briefs & Development
The crisis in the Horn of Africa and the declaration of famine conditions in parts of Somalia in 2011 provided renewed impetus to break, once…
Evidencing the Restitution Landscape: Pre-emptive and Advance Techniques for War-torn Land and Property Rights Reacquisition
Briefs & Development
The enormity of civilian population dislocation during armed conflicts, and the importance – yet difficulty – of reattaching people to lands and properties subsequent to…
The Earth Security Index 2014
Toolkits & Guidance
Our world is in the midst of a major geopolitical shift. New emerging powers are becoming important actors in a multi-polar international system, many of which are facing resource…
Human Dimensions of Land Use and Land Cover Change Related to Civil Unrest in the Imatong Mountains of South Sudan
Briefs & Development
Civil unrest disrupts not only the lives of people in the impacted area, but also the environment in ways not well understood. While armed conflict…
Registering the Human Terrian: A Valuation of Cadastre
Toolkits & Guidance
By tying a name to a place, a cadastre can answer the difficult “who” question: who is behind a given problem? A cadastre can also…
Modernizing Insecurity: The Land Titling Project in Honduras
Briefs & Development
The Honduran land titling project (the Proyecto de Titulación de Tierra para los Pequeños Productores), initiated in 1982, was intended to enhance security in land rights,…
Environmental Justice Atlas [Interactive Map]
Multimedia
The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well…