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Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Forest Cover Change in Teknaf, Bangladesh
Briefs & Development
Following a targeted campaign of violence by Myanmar military, police, and local militias, more than half a million Rohingya refugees have fled to neighboring Bangladesh…
Funding Rebellion: The Rebel Contraband Dataset
Briefs & Development
We introduce a new dataset measuring if and how rebel groups earn income from the exploitation of natural resources or criminal activities. The Rebel Contraband…
Role of Technology in Promoting Peace
Briefs & Development
Technology in itself has a very broad meaning. From wheel to the latest launched satellite, all comes under the development of technology for the peace…
Ecological Impact of Rohingya Refugees on Forest Resources: Remote Sensing Analysis of Vegetation Cover Change in Teknaf Peninsula in Bangladesh
Briefs & Development
Satellite remote sensing technique has been used to assess the vegetation cover changes experienced by areas severely affected by Rohingya refugees in Teknaf peninsula of…
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…
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…
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…
Charting Environmental Conflict -- The Atlas of Environmental Justice
Briefs & Development
On 22 June, 100s of people came together in Brussels to mourn for Jo Cox. There was a minute of silence even in the Belgian…
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…
Conflict, Forced Migration and Property Claims
Blog
Amidst widespread fighting in Iraq and Syria, millions of distressed civilians have fled their homes. In Yemen as well, war has led to mass displacement…
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,…
Online Identification of Conflict Related Environmental Damage
Briefs & Development
With the conflict in Syria soon to enter its fifth year, large parts of the country have been laid to waste by intense fighting, bombardment…
Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher? [Interactive Map]
Library
Using the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project, which monitors local media around the world (and live-translates it from 65 languages, along…
Geographies of Conflict
Briefs & Development
Ghana and Peru have experienced dramatic growth in their mining and hydrocarbons sectors in recent years, and both countries have also experienced conflict between local…
How Conflict Minerals Funded a War That Killed Millions, and Why Tech Giants are Finally Cleaning Up Their Act
Briefs & Development
The minerals from the DRC's mines have changed hands innumerable times on their journey to our PCs and phones. After being dug up in central…
The Role of Land Records in Support of Post-Conflict Land Administration: A Case Study of Rwanda in Gasabo District
Briefs & Development
Land records in post-conflict land administration are considered as proof of ownership right in land and boundaries. Therefore, this research has classified land records into…
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…
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…
Drawing a Line under the Crisis: Reconciling Returnee Land Access and Security in Post-Conflict Rwanda
Briefs & Development
This report is part of a broader comparative effort by the Overseas Development Institute’s Humanitarian Policy Group on Land Tenure in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations,…
Returnee Land Access: Lessons from Rwanda
Briefs & Development
This background briefing reports on a study of land access for returnees in Rwanda, and the impacts of land access policies in the post-conflict period.…
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…