A new book titled "High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding" has been published by researchers of the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Focusing on resource-rich post-conflict countries, the book investigates experiences from more than a dozen countries in post-conflict management of high-value resources, and examines challenges and opportunities in the peacebuilding process.

The study "Mediating Land Conflict in Burundi" conducted by ACCORD provides an assessment and an evaluation of how land conflict mediation addresses long-term challenges for peace in Burundi. The project report analyzes ACCORD’s land conflict mediation practice in two Burundi provinces, contributing to the work of a wide range of actors in post-conflict peacebuilding, repatriation, reintegration and reconciliation, and land tenure issues.

"Women at the frontline of climate change - Gender risks and hopes" is a rapid response assessment, which focuses on the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. It calls for relevant agencies operating across the spectrum of development and climate assistance to put women at the center of their strategies in order to make sustainable adaptation a success.

Aiming to fill the knowledge gap regarding how climate-related vulnerabilities interact with the dynamics of conflict in specific locations, the study "Climate Change and Conflict in Pastoralist Regions of Ethiopia: Mounting Challenges, Emerging Responses" by USAID and the Foundation for Environmental Security focuses on the pastoralist regions of Ethiopia, scrutinizing climate trends and impacts the inhabitants confront and investigating their adaptation strategies and capacities.

International Alert, in partnership with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, is leading the project "Climate Change, Water, and Conflict in the Niger River Basin". This project focuses on Mali, Niger and Nigeria and aims to examine the links between environmental stress, climate change, conflict and adaptation at local, national and regional levels, and in different localities along the Niger River.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) project "Information Products for Nile Basin Water Resources Management" is intended to prevent conflicts by strengthening the ability of the governments of the ten Nile basin countries to make informed decisions with regard to water resources policy and management in the Nile Basin.

"The Foresight Report on Migration and Global Environmental Change: Future Challenges and Opportunities" by the UK Government Office for Science considers migration in the context of environmental change over the next 50 years. It examines potential migration patterns and concludes that migration may be part of the solution to managing global environmental change, as a form of adaptation and contributing to long-term resilience.

Published in: ECC-Newsletter, 6/2011