The Nature of Peace: Trajectories of Environmental Peacebuilding between Dominant Narratives and Power Relations

2025 | Ecology and Society
Fariborz Zelli and Torsten Krause

Peacebuilding initiatives play an important role in the reconstruction of political, economic, and social conditions after internal armed conflicts. If these initiatives also account for…

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15 Key Takeaways from a Decade of Climate Security Reporting

2025 | Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Peter Schwartzstein

For nearly two decades, the connections between climate change and security have been debated and discussed in a diverse array of fora—from universities, think tanks,…

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The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Negotiating Peace Agreements

2025 | Negotiation Journal
Saleem H. Ali, Nancy E. Boyer, Gabriela Mundaca, Lynette de Silva, Shaghayegh Jabalameli, and Jahan Taganova

Drawing on the growing genre of literature on “environmental peacebuilding,” this article develops a qualitative model of how land and natural resources (including minerals, water,…

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Gender Dynamics Within Food Systems in Displacement Contexts: Experiences from Displaced Populations in Nampula, Mozambique

2025 | Frontiers
Thea Synnestvedt, Gracsious Maviza, and Mandlenkosi Maphosa

In Nampula province, Mozambique, internally displaced and refugee communities live in settlements situated at the outskirts of Nampula city. This paper explores the intersection of…

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Missing the Target: Examining the Causes of the Conflict on the Afghanistan-Iran Border in May 2023

2025 | ALCIS
David Mansfield

This policy brief shares key findings and implications for policy from a forthcoming XCEPT study on the escalation in violence along the Afghanistan-Iran border on…