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Aug 28, 2024
Environmental NGOs as Tools of State Security Policy: A Growing Trend
For a group of self-described environmentalists, the roughly two dozen Azerbaijanis who suddenly assembled along the highway near the Armenian border in late 2022 looked like a pretty atypical lot.…
Jun 11, 2024
Climate Security and Europe’s Greens: A Match Made in Political Heaven?
When Luxembourg’s Green Party was offered the defense portfolio in coalition talks after performing strongly in the country’s 2019 elections, its senior members faced a dilemma. Never before had…
Oct 15, 2023
A Reminder from Israel and Gaza on the Importance and Limitations of Environmental Peacebuilding
I flew into Tel Aviv last Friday afternoon, primed for a week of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian environmentalists and officials. By sounding out these men and women in Jerusalem, the West Bank,…
Jan 31, 2023
Climate & Migration
Assessing and addressing migration and displacement in a time of extreme climate stress
Jan 31, 2023
Environmentalism for Sovereignty’s Sake
Egypt’s Gebel Elba National Park is, by all accounts, a spectacular place. But it better be to justify the fuss it takes to visit. First you have to apply for a permit. If that’s approved (and almost…
Jan 19, 2023
The extraordinary benefits of a house made of mud
Mud, a traditional construction material in Africa, more easily keeps buildings cool compared with concrete. Architects are finding ways to keep mud’s beauty and function alive in a warming world.
Jan 11, 2023
CLIMATE, WATER AND MILITIAS: A FIELD STUDY FROM SOUTHERN IRAQ
When recruiters for Iraq’s various militias came to the North Abu Zarag Marsh near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq in August of 2014, it didn’t take them long to empty the surrounding villages of most…
Dec 1, 2022
Media and Climate Security: Mutual Miscomprehension?
There’s a scene near the climax of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express when Hercule Poirot starts to plot out the possible murderers. There’s Colonel Arbuthnot, who had opportunity…
Nov 11, 2022
How climate change can help heal conflicts—not just fuel them
Increasingly, environmental cooperation is solving local conflicts around the world.