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Conflict, extremism, resilience and peace in South Asia; can covid-19 provide a bridge for peace and rapprochement?
South Asia, home to 1.97 billion people (25% of the world’s population), is no stranger to conflict and confrontation. Longstanding border disputes (such as between India and China and the decades-old standoff between India and Pakistan), the forced displacement of Myanmar Muslims...
Climate change mitigation in forests: Conflict, peacebuilding, and lessons for climate security
Abstract/Description Forests in low and middle-income countries are at the centre of climate change mitigation efforts. But these forests are also areas of high levels of insecurity and are found in fragile states with weak governance, especially over forestlands. Nations affected by...
Thematic Review on Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding
This document is part of a series of Thematic Reviews regularly produced by the UN Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund. PBF commissions Thematic Reviews to examine past global practices and promising innovations on specific topics, and to reflect on the performance and contribution of...
How will COVID-19 reshape science, technology and innovation?
This policy brief discusses the effects that the COVID-19 crisis could have on the future of science, technology and innovation (STI) and its policies. Factors shaping the future of STI include the unequal effects of the crisis on research and development (R&D)...
The Centrality of Youth-Inclusive Peace Processes
As the world continues to experience a turbulent period amid the ongoing pandemic, building sustainable and peaceful communities could not be more important—a point underscored in the call by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres for a global ceasefire last year. Young people...
Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022
The World Health Organization has today launched the Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022 (the Strategy) to help bring an end to what has become a two-track pandemic: people in poorer countries continue to be at risk while those in...
THE REALITY OF COVID-19 IN HUMANITARIAN SETTINGS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
This 90 minute webinar brings together R2HC research teams who have conducted research in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Uganda, along with humanitarian practitioners and experts, to capture insights from their research studies and operational experiences. link: https://www.elrha.org/covid-19/#webinar
Peace in Our Cities in a Time of Pandemic: Digital Threats & Urban Violence Prevention
This brief offers city leaders ideas for and examples of urban innovations in the use of social media to address various forms of violence during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Handling Harmful Content Online: Cross-National Perspectives of Users Affected by Conflict
Executive Summary Organized disinformation campaigns and malign actors use social media to increase polarization and incite violence around the world. Harmful online content- including hate speech, false news, cyberbullying, and inflammatory rumors- can spread quickly and reach millions. While research on how...
M&E Thursday Talk – A Story of Resilience & Fragilities: The Impact of Covid-19 on Horizontal Cohesion in Conflict-Affected Countries
On September 23rd Samah Abdalrahman & Hilde Deman of Search for Common Ground (Search), hosted a Thursday Talk webinar on "A Story of Resilience & Fragilities: The Impact of Covid-19 on Horizontal Cohesion in Conflict-Affected Countries."
September with Search I Covid-19 in Conflict-Affected Countries
During September 2021, DME for Peace will be highlighting Search for Common Ground's (Search) efforts to research and to mitigate the mutual influence of conflict dynamics and COVID-19 response, culminating in a M&E Thursday Talk discussion on September 23rd, at 10am EDT. -----------------------------------------------------------...
Speak Up, Speak Out: A Toolkit for Reporting on Human Rights Issues
This toolkit is both a human rights reference guide and a workbook for journalists and civic activists who want to improve their ability to report on human rights issues in a fair, accurate, and sensitive way. Internews believes that a critical first...