Nigeria’s central Middle Belt region is home to a diverse cultural population of semi-nomadic cattle herders and farming communities. For decades, the region...
Small Island States will be facing dramatically higher adaptation costs to build resilience against the kind of impacts the IPCC projects in its most recent...
WATCH: UN Environment in Sudan and partners organize the “Derma Conference” to help facilitate dialogue over shared natural resources to promote equitable use...
WATCH: The amount of water in Lake Chad (Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon) has decreased significantly. The drought that started in 1973 has affected millions...
With the building of one of the world’s largest hydroelectric dams on the Blue Nile River, Ethiopia sets a new phase of development for the country and...
WATCH: It cannot be overstated how valuable regional cooperation is for tackling the security dimensions of climate change. Ayan Mahamoud, Platform Coordinator...
The Lake Chad Basin is afflicted with a multidimensional crisis, which contributing factors range from deeply-entrenched regional hostilities to environmental...
WATCH: As conflicts over natural resources play out in Mali, spillover effects can be felt throughout the Sahel region. Shreya Mitra, Adviser for Climate Change...
On 22 March 2018, the UN Security Council held a discussion on the causes of conflict and human suffering in the Lake Chad Basin. Chitra Nagarajan, adelphi’s...
A recent article in Nature Climate Change has spurred a new chapter in the lively scholarly debate over the potential relationship between climate change and...
The Lake Chad region experiences a multitude of crises: lack of employment and education opportunities, resource scarcity and violent conflict, all exacerbated...
The Lake Chad crisis is becoming one of the worst humanitarian disasters since World War II, and climate change is considered one of the drivers. In the four...
WATCH: In this video, Henk-Jan Brinkman, Chief of Policy, Planning and Application of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), argues that one...
WATCH: The connections between climate change and the risk of violent conflict have become increasingly clear. Development aid organizations also take into...
While attention in the United States is focused on the disasters in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, a crisis across the Atlantic is rapidly becoming one of the...
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...