Blogs & Opinions
The Munich Security Conference's Uncomfortable Truth: Fossil Fuels Are Now a Security Risk
Feb 12, 2026
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María Mendiluce
At Munich world leaders will talk about defence readiness, economic resilience and strategic autonomy, but energy and climate change should be understood as central to…
Reimagining Land, Justice, and Post-War Responsibility in Liberia
Feb 12, 2026
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Ysyndi Martin-Kpeyei
Nations emerging from conflict are not rebuilt by rigidity, but by vision anchored in humanity. In Liberia, it is unproductive and ultimately visionless to suggest…
Power Shift: Can Syria's Oil Fields Reshape Its Energy Future?
Feb 11, 2026
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Cian Ward
Following the government’s takeover of much of northeast Syria from the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in recent weeks, Syria’s vast oil fields now have…
Water, Power, and the Future of Conflict
Feb 11, 2026
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Nick Kraft and J. Carl Ganter
In 2026, water is emerging as one of the world’s most contested shared resources. Water is becoming the protagonist in a story of global disruption and…
Climate & Policing
Feb 10, 2026
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Mohammad Ali Babakhel
Climate change is changing policing roles. Besides crime, police are now also expected to handle disaster management, help with evacuation, rescue, control traffic, secure relief…
Local Resilience Can Mitigate Climate Conflicts in the Pacific
Feb 9, 2026
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Tobias Ide
The Pacific Island countries are at the frontline of climate change. Their territories mostly consist of small, low-lying islands, with long coastlines and vast ocean…
Can Climate Security Survive the Crisis of Multilateralism?
Feb 3, 2026
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Tabea Campbell Pauli and Benedetta Zocchi
Multilateralism is under threat, as many global powers increasingly choose to center their security priorities around defense and economic competition over international cooperation. This shift…
Environmental Security: A Key Element of Ukraine’s National Policy
Feb 3, 2026
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Polina Tsybulska
As war and climate change inflict damage on Ukraine’s environment, from polluting rivers and soils to destroying ecosystems, how could these threats be transformed into…
A UK Climate Security Report Backed by the Intelligence Services Was Quietly Buried – a Pattern We’ve Seen Many Times before
Feb 3, 2026
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Marc Hudson
Last autumn, a UK government report warned that climate-driven ecosystem collapse could lead to food shortages, mass migration, political extremism and even nuclear conflict. The…
When Nature Becomes a Security Risk
Feb 2, 2026
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Rhett Ayers Butler
Britain’s national security thinking has traditionally been shaped by familiar concerns: hostile states, terrorism, energy supply, and, more recently, cyber threats. A new assessment from…
Local Resilience Can Mitigate Climate Conflicts in the Pacific
Jan 31, 2026
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Tobias Ide
The Pacific Island countries are at the frontline of climate change. Their territories mostly consist of small, low-lying islands, with long coastlines and vast ocean…
Why Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Belong in Climate Action
Jan 29, 2026
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Ipas & The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Climate Justice Coalition
Ipas
A conversation with Ipas research expert Sally Dijkerman on why climate action must include sexual and reproductive health and rights, and what it will take…
Critical Minerals: Licensing, Tariffs, and the New Supply-Chain Risk
Jan 29, 2026
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Mark R. Ludwikowski, Kelsey Christensen, and Ashley Gifford
Critical minerals are no longer just industrial inputs. They are now strategic assets treated by governments as both economic infrastructure and national security leverage. Critical…
The Double Threat: How Conflict and Climate Change Disrupt Agricultural Input Use
Jan 29, 2026
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Rajalakshmi Nirmal
We often talk about war and weather as separate disasters. But for a farmer, they are a combined force. New research shows that conflict doesn't…
Reimagining the UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda: Climate Resilience and Women’s Peacebuilding in Lake Chad
Jan 26, 2026
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Aïssatou Oumar Magra Avaramla
PRIF Blog
As Lake Chad’s waters shrink and droughts intensify, pastoralists and farmers clash over the remaining oases. Amid this crisis, rural women – farmers, water-keepers, and…
Water Cooperation Is Under Threat
Jan 26, 2026
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Susanne Schmeier, Melissa McCracken, and Aaron Wolf
Rivers, lakes, and aquifers ignore borders and politics, binding countries, people, and ecosystems together. This shared reality has long required cooperation, even among states divided…
Exposing the Rural Insecurity behind Nigeria’s Food Crisis
Jan 25, 2026
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Lekan Olayiwola
Nigeria’s food crisis is often described in the language of numbers: inflation rates, tonnage of grains lost, millions displaced, and millions hungry. These figures matter,…
The Looming Hydrological Crisis: How Water Weaponization Threatens Regional Stability and International Order
Jan 24, 2026
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Jamal Khan
Rising tensions over shared rivers in South Asia highlight how water management disputes increasingly threaten regional stability, human security, and broader international order.
In 21st-century geopolitics,…
Why Sudan Is Drawing a Red Line around the Heglig Oil Field
Jan 23, 2026
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OilPrice.com
On the Sudan civil war front, the government is trying to draw a hard boundary around a shrinking but still critical part of the oil…
Afghanistan’s Secret Gold Rush Risks Poisoning Its Waters
Jan 23, 2026
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Shahla Muram and Nadja Kunz
Afghanistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change, and the largely hidden gold rush in Badakhshan is not only endangering the lives…
Seeing Women Behind Supply Chains: A Methodology to Strengthen Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Agrifood Systems
Jan 21, 2026
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Fernanda Soto, Marlène Elias, and Jenny Wiegel
The Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT
A new methodology helps agrifood companies meet their gender equality and inclusion commitments by better understanding diverse actors and experiences in their supply chains.
For many…
Getting Critical Minerals Certification and Due Diligence Right in the DRC-Rwanda Accord and beyond (With a Lesson from a Punk Band?)
Jan 21, 2026
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Brad Brooks-Rubin
Most current analysis focuses on the core challenge of how critical minerals can be extracted in a smooth and efficient manner, on the one hand,…
The Arctic Illusion: Why Greenland Proves That Climate Cooperation Is a Myth
Jan 20, 2026
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Anusreeta Dutta
For decades, the Arctic has been portrayed as an outlier in world politics, where science prevails over enmity and climate cooperation trumps strategic conflict. We…
Kurdistan’s Oil Lifeline at Risk as Baghdad Payments Fall Short Again
Jan 20, 2026
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Simon Watkins
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is once again edging toward a fiscal breaking point. Officials in its Erbil-based semi-autonomous regional government (KRG) say they…
Gold in Sudan: The Resource That Never Became Wealth — A Vast Asset with No Developmental Impact
Jan 19, 2026
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Mohannad Awad Mahmoud
Since Sudan lost the bulk of its oil revenues following South Sudan’s secession in 2011, gold has become the country’s most important source of foreign…
Wars over Resources: A Persistent Driver of Security and Conflict
Jan 19, 2026
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Michał Zgórzak
From the perspective of security studies, wars rarely originate in abstract ideas or ideological declarations. More often, they emerge from material constraints: shortages of water,…
India’s Indus Gamble: How Water Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon in South Asia
Jan 16, 2026
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Saima Afzal
India’s approval of the 260-megawatt (MW) Dulhasti Stage-II hydropower project on the Chenab River marks more than an incremental expansion of infrastructure. It reflects a deeper transformation…
In the Race for DRC’s Critical Minerals, Community Forests Stand on the Frontline
Jan 16, 2026
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Didier Makal and Latoya Abulu
Ten years ago, the displacement of nearby famers from the villages of Bungubungu and Shilasimba by Société d’Exploitation de Kipoi (SEK), a company owned by…
State Fragility and Cascading Climate Risks
Jan 15, 2026
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Kathryn Cheeseman
The world is experiencing more conflict now than since 1946. State fragility, peace and security are increasingly at the forefront of development policy, which is…
The Middle East’s Next War Will Be over Water
Jan 15, 2026
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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez
The Middle East is not running out of slogans. It is running out of water. And while pundits remain hypnotized by manifestos, missiles, and terrorist…