Conflict and Peacebuilding
The connections between environmental issues and conflict are many and complex. Environmental factors themselves are rarely, if ever, the sole cause of violence. But natural resource management and other environmental factors are linked to violent conflicts in a variety of ways often obscured by more visible issues, such as ethnic tension and power politics.
Our experts focus on what can be done about these connections. Namely, they provide a better understanding of how policy-makers and practitioners, working in conflict-affected and high-risk areas, can ensure their work is sustainable and supports the transition from fragility to peace.
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Conflict-Sensitive Conservation
Natural resource management is often a source of conflict.
Managing Climate Risks in Fragile States
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Conservation and Migration in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Migration has been used for centuries as a means of adapting to and coping with change in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
Migration and Conservation: A toolkit for conservation and development practitioners
This toolkit helps conservation practitioners assess the impacts of human migration on critical ecosystems.
Growing Unrest: The links between farmed and fished resources and the risk of conflict
This paper examines the links between the risk of conflict and the production and trade of agricultural and marine commodities. It does so using a series of case studies: cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire, bananas and subsequently fisheries in Somalia, and cotton in Central Asia. Much like the traditional…
Migration and Climate Change
This short book analyzes the prospect of large-scale forced migration as a result of climate change and attempts to estimate the developmental impact of potentially millions of people displaced by coastal flooding, extreme weather events and agricultural disruption. In 1990, the…
Trade, Aid and Security: An agenda for peace and development
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