Environmental Degradation
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Experiential Education in the Context of Environmental Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Tejedores de Vida in Colombia
Briefs & Development
An innovative approach has emerged to consolidate peacebuilding efforts in conflict-affected context using experiential education with an environmental perspective. Yet, little research has explored the…
Climate Security: The Role of Data and Disruptive Technologies for Climate Security
Briefs & Development
A systemic analysis of the role that climate, natural resource and food systems play in conflict and peace is key to design and implement interventions…
Colombia's Cyberinfrastructure for Biodiversity: Building Data Infrastructure in Emerging Countries to Foster Socioeconomic Growth
Briefs & Development
Colombia is a “megadiverse” country with vast natural resources. A history of recent conflict means that information is only now being collected on the natural…
Yemen’s Disappearing Date Palms: Applied Environmental OSINT
Briefs & Development
The lush, idyllic region in Hudaydah, on the west coast of Yemen, featuring wadis and fertile valleys, was a place known for its date palm…
How Big Data and New Technologies Can Advance Climate Security [Audio]
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How can data and novel technologies be put to better use in the service of peace building, resilience, and other aspects of climate security? In…
Soils of the Southern Syria – A Big Database for the Future Land Management Planning
Briefs & Development
As non-renewable natural resources, restoring Syrian soil quality is a vital issue for sustainable future planning after conflict ends. The data provided in this research…
Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms: Implications of a Multi-stakeholder Land Platform for State Formation in Myanmar
Briefs & Development
Amid Myanmar’s political transition and despite its new government’s discourse of inclusion and dialogue, land conflicts have increased across the country’s ethnic-minority areas. We argue…
Mapping and Analysing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Conflict Areas
Briefs & Development
Human-mediated global environmental change threatens ecosystem services worldwide. Detailed cultural ecosystem services mapping is crucial to counteract ecosystem degradation, but such mapping exercises have been…
Peace, Security and Conservation on Central Africa's Radio
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In northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and eastern Central African Republic (CAR), high-frequency radios are helping to cultivate peace, security, and, more recently, conservation.…
Serving Refugee Communities with Tech, Energy Access, Entrepreneurship: Mastercard and USAID’s Collective Approach
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As we mark World Refugee Day 2019 (June 20) and reflect on the fate of displaced communities all around the world, we are convinced, now…
Blockchain Is Great, but It Can't Solve Everything. Take Conflict Minerals.
Blog
Blockchain technology can help trace a product as it moves through a supply chain, but it cannot create trust where it’s often most needed.
Who's Interested in Afghanistan's Lithium?
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What connects mobile phones, the Taliban, India and China? A metal called lithium.
Complexity Analysis of Sustainable Peace: Mathematical Models and Data Science Measurements
Briefs & Development
Peace is not merely the absence of war and violence, rather 'positive peace' is the political, economic, and social systems that generate and sustain peaceful…
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…
The Middle East: Blue Strike List
Briefs & Development
The Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace has observed that the increasing tendency to use water resources and infrastructure as targets or as weapons…
Fires in Protected Areas Reveal Unforeseen Costs of Colombian Peace
Briefs & Development
Armed conflict, and its end, can have powerful effects on natural resources, but the influence of war and peace on highly biodiverse tropical forests remains…
Temperature Extremes, Global Warming, and Armed Conflict: New Insights From High Resolution Data
Briefs & Development
This paper contributes to the debate whether climate change and global warming cause conflicts by providing novel evidence about the role of extreme temperature events…
Fair and Equitable Approach Using GIS for Solving the Krishna River Conflict, India
Briefs & Development
Conflict occurs between people in all kinds of human relationships and in all social settings. Because of the wide range of potential differences among people,…
Mapping Artisanal Mining Areas and Mineral Supply Chains in Eastern DR Congo
Briefs & Development
For ten years IPIS has researched, and gathered extensive data on, the linkage between conflict and mineral resources in the eastern Democratic Republic of the…
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…
MapX: An Open Geospatial Platform to Manage, Analyze and Visualize Data on Natural Resources and the Environment
Briefs & Development
This paper describes MapX, a spatial data infrastructure that aims to support the sustainable use of natural resources and the environment by increasing access to…
A Meta-Analysis of Natural Resources and Conflict
Briefs & Development
The relationship between natural resource wealth and civil conflict remains unclear, despite prolonged scholarly attention. Conducting a meta-analysis—a quantitative literature review—can help synthesize this broad…
Blood Diamonds to Blockchain Diamonds?
Blog
Do you know where your diamonds come from? Ethically-sourced minerals and gems have gained a lot of traction of late. And increasingly, globally, consumers want…
Why Blockchain Can Be an Effective Tool for Fighting Environmental Crime
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The effects of environmental crime and illicit trade are vast and often irreversible. For illustration, look no further than the recent death of the last…
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…
Natural Resource Wars in the Shadow of the Future: Explaining Spatial Dynamics of Violence during Civil War
Briefs & Development
Previous studies on natural resources and civil wars find that the presence of natural resources increases both civil conflict risk and duration. At the same…
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…
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…