These videos are from the SDG Academy course Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace, first launched in 2018 and taught by experts from the UN Environmental Programme, Environmental Law Institute, and more.
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This 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…
Climate Stress, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
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This chapter provides the conceptual framework of the various ways that natural resources, environment, conflict, and peace are connected across the conflict lifecycle.…
Conceptual Framework for Environmental…
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This chapter examines the evolution of understanding on the linkages between environment, conflict, and peace from World War II through to the present. It highlights…
Evolution of Environment, Peace, and Conflict…
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This chapter examines the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and other efforts promoting transparency and public access to information as means of preventing…
Transparency and Access to Information
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While 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…
Case Study: Blood Chocolate: Cacao and Conflict…
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This case study delves into the environmental dimensions of the causes, conduct, peacemaking, and post-conflict peacebuilding of Colombia’s civil war. There are…
Case Study: Environmental Peacebuilding in…
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This case study focuses on international cooperation between Israel and Jordan around shared water in the Jordan River. It demonstrates the importance of water resources…
Case Study: Cooperation Around Shared Water in…
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Conflicts impact livelihoods in diverse ways, which can manifest in coping, survival, maladaptation, and the degradation of natural resources. Understanding the base for…
Restoring Livelihoods and Building Resilience
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This chapter introduces the indispensable roles that renewable and nonrenewable resources could play in the post-conflict recovery phase, including how to make recovery…
Renewable and Nonrenewable Sources of Energy
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What are the roles of natural resources and other environmental factors in driving or escalating violent conflict? This chapter profiles resource scarcity, environmental…
Drivers of Violent Conflict Emergence
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This case study examines how diamonds and timber were exploited to fund military activity and sustain conflict during Liberia’s two civil wars. The case of Liberia…
Case Study: Diamonds, Timber, and Conflict in…
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Recognizing that bad governance and a lack of social resilience are often contributing causes of violent conflict, this chapter provides an overview to key elements of…
Governance and Resilience
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In 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.…
Case Study: Land as a Conflict Driver in Sierra…
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This chapter examines concrete measures countries and international organizations can take to implement their international legal obligations to protect the environment…
Implementing International Law During Armed…
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What 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…
UN Security Council Tools for Addressing Resource…
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This chapter introduces two frameworks that were developed to understand the process, pathways, and dynamics of natural resource conflicts and the specific role of…
Conflict Pathways and Determinants in Mining,…
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