WATCH: The connections between climate change and the risk of violent conflict have become increasingly clear. Development aid organizations also take into...
WATCH: Soon, the World Bank will publish a flagship report on the role of develoment in the prevention of violent conflicts, together with several UN organs...
WATCH: What are the causes of violent extremism in Africa? UNDP Programme Coordinator, Mohammed Yahya, argues that young people are marginalized from the...
WATCH: Dan Smith, Director of SIPRI, explains why the Lake Chad Basin is one of the greatest trouble spots of our time, and what measures need to be taken. The...
WATCH: In April 2017, the UN Security Council sent a mission to the Lake Chad region, where the largest humanitarian crisis is currently playing out. Carl Skau...
WATCH: In this interview, Francesco Femia, Co-Founder and President at the Center for Climate and Security, argues that we should be concerned about price...
WATCH: In drought-prone Ethiopia, pastoralists and farmers fight to control key resources, such as land and water. David Alemu works for Mercy Corps, a global...
WATCH: In this interview, Hamsatu Allamin, now affiliated with the Nigeria Stability & Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), sheds light on the dramatic causes and...
WATCH: Amina Mohammed discusses the linkages between Boko Haram and the drying of Lake Chad, as well as the challenges of urbanisation, rising sea levels and...
In Tunisia, food price inflation and declining living standards - exacerbated by strong volatility in international food prices - contributed to strong...
This case study explores the ways in which soaring global food prices have interacted with other risk factors in the MENA region to create conditions ripe for...
WATCH: In this Interview, Mamadou Diakhité outlines the objectives and strategies of two land restoration initiatives in Africa and how this benefits broader...
With land investment in Ethiopia intensifying due to high demand for biofuels in developed countries, local populations are being forced to leave their land and...
WATCH: The direct causes of the civil war in Syria relate to popular discontent with the government. Yet the mishandling of a major drought in the preceding...
WATCH: This video examines the interplay of South Sudan's deteriorating environmental conditions and communal conflicts over environmental resources by...
The Omo-Turkana basin stretches from southern Ethiopia into Kenya. Temperatures in the region are rising and droughts occur with higher frequency and intensity...
More frequent droughts have exacerbated resource conflicts between Pokomo farmers and Orma herders in the Tana River Delta, Kenya. Pressures from outside...
Large scale land acquisitions by Kenyan and foreign companies in Kenya’s Tana River Delta are reducing available pastures and farmland for local communities...
Conflict between the pastoralist Sa’ad and Suleiman sub-clans of the Habar Gidir clan revolves around access to water and grazing land. The scarcity of these...