WATCH: Oliver Brown, Consultant for the United Nations Environment Program, reviews how the management of natural resources is linked to instability and...
WATCH: In this interview, Elliot Brennan from the Institute for Security and Development Policy explains what shale gas developments in the U.S. may mean for...
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...
The Gobi region has limited surface water resources and low annual rainfall. Oyu Tolgoi is one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits located...
Plans to mine the Niyamgiri Hills fostered conflicts between indigenous peoples in the eastern Indian state of Odisha and a large multinational mining...
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...
Increasing demand for palm oil for use in biofuels, amongst other products, has led to drastic increases in land grabbing and deforestation in Indonesia...
Failure of fast and effective post-disaster reconstruction in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 has led to citizen protests and conflict with...
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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