Protecting Peace
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234 playsThis chapter focuses on peace around the world as a peans of obtaining sustainable development, looking at the risk of nuclear war, current conflicts, and the cost of… -
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55 playsIn this chapter, Sharif Azami discusses barriers to lasting peace, explaining how the framework around peacebuilding is built on an international level and its barriers,… -
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43 playsWhat are the roles of natural resources and other environmental factors in driving or escalating violent conflict? This chapter profiles resource scarcity, environmental… -
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153 playsThis chapter explores challenges for peace and security efforts posed by both natural climate fluctuations and climate change in the long run. It considers ways that… -
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119 playsThis chapter provides the conceptual framework of the various ways that natural resources, environment, conflict, and peace are connected across the conflict lifecycle.… -
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125 playsThis chapter examines the evolution of understanding on the linkages between environment, conflict, and peace from World War II through to the present. It highlights… -
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29 playsThis chapter addresses four key components of conflict sensitivity and discusses the conflict risk indicators that should be considered in continuous monitoring and… -
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8 playsThis chapter presents the different ways in which the multiple uses and benefits of different resources could be coordinated to facilitate post-conflict peacebuilding… -
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26 playsThis chapter examines concrete measures countries and international organizations can take to implement their international legal obligations to protect the environment… -
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26 playsWhat is the role of the UN Security Council in addressing resource-driven conflicts, as well as the environmental dimensions of other conflicts? This chapter provides an… -
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10 playsWhat are the various tools that countries can use to combat conflict resources? This chapter focuses on five key domestic and international measures that prevent natural… -
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16 playsHow have different peace agreements addressed natural resources? This chapter presents key lessons learned from past conflicts and discusses the role of natural… -
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53 playsThis chapter addresses how intangible cultural heritage can contribute to restoring peace and security in conflict-related emergency situations. Through relevant… -
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103 playsThis case study delves into the environmental dimensions of the causes, conduct, peacemaking, and post-conflict peacebuilding of Colombia’s civil war. There are… -
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127 playsWhile acknowledging that there were a variety of factors that led to the outbreak and conduct of Cote d’Ivoire’s two civil wars, this chapter specifically… -
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46 playsIn this case study, learn how land – along with challenges such as ethnic and religious divisions and weak governance – shaped the civil war in Sierra Leone.… -
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34 playsThis case study profiles copper mining in Aynak, Afghanistan, where mineral wealth has the potential to contribute to stabilization in post-conflict recovery. This… -
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23 playsThis case study considers the ways that climate stress influenced the escalation of social conflicts into violent conflict across North African and the Middle East,… -
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644 playsThis conversation with Rashid Khalidi took place on March 24, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Khalidi's book The Hundred… -
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511 playsThis conversation with Martin Sherwin took place on January 28, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Sherwin's book Gambling with…