In the decades between the early 1970s and the beginning of the 2000s, the northern Indonesian province of Aceh was exposed to a civil conflict between the...
Ethnic and religious marginalisation caused a civil conflict in Sri Lanka, lasting about thirty years. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami exacerbated the existing...
Since the end of the Second World War, the South China Sea has been considered to be a major region of instability in Southeast Asia. Whilst territorial...
The Ferghana Valley, a single 300km geographical formation, has been a source of inter-ethnic conflict since the disintegration of the USSR and the partitions...
To cope with logging and illegal logging, and the obstruction of access to water sources by the owners of haciendas in Montaña Las Granadillas, located in the...
Increasing demand for palm oil for use in biofuels, amongst other products, has led to drastic increases in land grabbing and deforestation in Indonesia...
On 22 December 2014, the Nicaraguan Government and Chinese Company HK Nicaragua Development Investment (HKND) inaugurated construction of an inter-oceanic canal...
Canaima National Park is located in southeastern Venezuela, near the border with Brazil and Guyana, and inside the ancestral territory of the Pemon Indigenous...
The development policy of the Cambodian government might cause deforestation, illegal logging and land grabbing, which threatens small farmers and indigenous...
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