Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Publications
Climate Change, Demography, Environmental Degradation, and Armed Conflict
Jul 07, 2011Using geo-referenced data, Clionadh Raleigh and Henrik Urdal find that population growth and density are related to increased civil conflict, but that demographic and environmental factors are generally outweighed by political and economic ones. more
Chapter Three: Early Warning and Assessment of Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation
Jul 07, 2011Marc Levy and Patrick Philippe Meier recommend that assessments and early warning systems integrate environmental variables more completely and effectively. The authors assert that the international system has little capacity to monitor and assess conflict and cooperation on environmental issues. more
ECSP Report 5: Special Reports (Part 1)
Jul 07, 2011Special Reports: Environment and Security in an International Context: Executive Summary Report, by the NATO/Committee on The Challenges of Modern Society Pilot Study; and State Failure Task Force Report: Phase II Findings.
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Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development
Jul 07, 2011Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development undertakes the challenging task of assessing the interrelationships between trade and aid, as well as the complex causes of conflict within the poorest countries. more
Global Conflict Transformation: Lessons from the Field
Jul 07, 2011Paper contribution to January 2010 seminar on environmental peacebuilding. more
Water, Conflict, and Cooperation: Lessons From the Nile River Basin (No. 4)
Jul 07, 2011Patricia Kameri-Mbote examines the context of the Nile River basin and the relationships forged among the states that share its waters. more
Latin America Special Report: Colombia's Peace Processes
Jul 07, 2011Efforts to bring Colombia's long-running internal armed conflict to an end through political negotiations continued to face major obstacles in 2006. This document reviews the major events in the peace process between Colombia's three main paramilitary groups (the FARC, the ELN, and the AUC) and the Colombian government. more
Environmental Security: A View from Europe
Jul 07, 2011We must reinvigorate the comprehensive—and reject the exclusively militaristic—definition of security, Margaret Brusasco-Mackenzie warns. more
Conflict: A Cause and Effect of Hunger
Jul 07, 2011This article highlights certain gaps in the information about the steps that lead from hunger to conflict, and then suggests policies and actions to break these connections. more
207. Yugoslavia Faces the Millennium: Conflict and Continuity
Jul 07, 2011May 2000 - A decade after the fall of Communism, there remains little discussion within the public sphere of the fundamental differences that separate the states and societies of Western and Eastern Europe. This oversight is regrettable not only because it limits our ability to resolve problems in the Balkans, but also because that region is far more representative of the world at large than is Western Europe.
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