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 this video, Neil Morisetti explains that apart from more traditional threats to global stability, there are now also non-traditional threats –...
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 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 the interview, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate and Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin highlights the 5 ...
WATCH: In this interview, Hamsatu Allamin, now affiliated with the Nigeria Stability & Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), sheds light on the dramatic causes and...
WATCH: In this video, Rachel Slater from the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (ODI) stresses that in order to help people survive in conflict-affected...
WATCH: This video examines the interplay of South Sudan's deteriorating environmental conditions and communal conflicts over environmental resources by...
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...
WATCH: Oliver Brown, Consultant for the United Nations Environment Program, reviews how the management of natural resources is linked to instability and...
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...
Shell’s oil-exploitation activities in the Niger Delta in Nigeria have been destroying the ecosystem and livelihood of the population since the 1950s. After...
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...
Toposa and Didinga have repeatedly clashed over land, livestock and water in the past. In 2013, however, the two groups could reach a peace agreement and...
The Dinka and Nuer, two rival pastoralist groups, have competed over grazing land and water for their cattle in the past. These clashes have usually taken place...
Since the 1950s and the discovery of oil on the Ogoni territory in Niger Delta, oil-exploitation activities have been conducted at the expense of the population...
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