How can the risks associated with increased critical mineral production be addressed in Latin America? As outlined in a recent report published by the OECD and...
The security risks in the Sahel are not in opposition to climatic concerns. Indeed, understanding them may help unlock the possibility of more lasting solutions...
WATCH: The Sahel region is particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts on human security, particularly food security and conflict potential. The Potsdam...
In the African continent, where both slow and fast onset climate events undermine economic and political stability, the linkage between climate change and...
Increasing rates of both deforestation and violence in the Brazilian Amazon are being driven by sprawling national and transnational criminal networks, a study...
The United Nations Assistance Mission to Somalia (UNSOM) is one of the first political missions globally to have climate and environmental language in its...
In this interview, Ayan Mahamoud discusses her work to foster regional climate resilience in the Horn of Africa, through cross-border cooperation among the...
Africa's Great Lakes Region is aptly named: together, it harbours one quarter of the world's unfrozen freshwater. For the countries of the region, this bounty...
On 1 December, adelphi, the UN University’s Centre for Policy Research, and the UN’s Climate Security Mechanism cohosted a Regional Dialogue on Climate Security...
WATCH: This session explores how rule of law approaches, including strengthening of legal and judicial systems, good governance and the empowerment of justice...
Insecurity is plaguing north-western Nigeria, due to persistent herder-farmer tensions, rising crime and infiltration by Islamist militants. Federal and state...
In the central Sahel, states are mobilising to combat the impact of climate change as way of reducing conflict. But to respond suitably to growing insecurity...
During the past two weeks, Antigua & Barbuda, Nicaragua and Panama ratified the Escazú Agreement, giving a major boost to the unprecedented and innovative Latin...
On 29 November in Rabat, adelphi partnered with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to hold a regional dialogue on climate change...
A new form of organized crime has recently been emerging in the Amazon: illegal mining. Miners fell trees, use high-grade explosives for blasting soils and...
To fight illegal coca plantations and conflict actors’ income sources, Colombia’s president wants to loosen the ban on aerial glyphosate spraying. However...
In recent years, conflict between herders and farmers for access to increasingly scarce natural resources in Africa’s Sudano-Sahel has escalated. While the...
Satellite analysis shows ‘vanishing’ lake has grown since 1990s, but climate instability is driving communities into the arms of Boko Haram and Islamic State...
WATCH: The issues that afflict the Lake Chad basin cross sectors and national borders – and so should their solutions. Mohammed Bila from the Lake Chad Basin...
In Mali and in the Sahel, changing rainfall patterns have been said to stress much of the current security crisis affecting the region, which can also be traced...