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  • Toward a New Regional Approach to Water Security and Governance in the Horn of Africa

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 7, 2020  //  By Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Luc van de Goor, Elizabeth Smith & Dan Smith

    A woman washes her clothes in the Dawa River with three day old water dug from shallow wells in the riverbed, which is now the only source of water for IDP's living in Kansale IDP camp, Somalia, on MAR 24, 2017. The severe drought across Somalia and the Horn of Africa has caused a humanitarian crisis that threatens millions.

    As the global climate changes, climate-related security risks are making the existing political, social, and economic challenges even more complicated. The 230 million people who live in the Horn of Africa are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change such as droughts and floods. Political fragility and transnational complexities make water governance a matter of regional high-level politics as well as geopolitical tensions. In short, sustainable water governance is critical for achieving resilient peace.

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  • Lessons from Post-Conflict States: Peacebuilding Must Factor in Environment and Climate Change

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 18, 2018  //  By Karolina Eklöw & Florian Krampe
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    The original version of this article, by Karolina Eklöw and Florian Krampe, appeared on the blog of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

    The challenge of peacebuilding missions is not only to stop violence and prevent a rekindling of conflict, but also to help societies and governments reset their internal relations on a peaceful path towards sustaining peace.

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  • From Disaster Risk Reduction to Sustainable Peace: Reducing Vulnerability and Preventing Conflict at the Local Level

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 21, 2017  //  By Florian Krampe & Roberta Scassa
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    The summer of 2017 was a stark reminder that climate change exacerbates both the intensity and frequency of natural disasters—and that the most vulnerable people are most severely affected. A recent study shows that from 2004-2014, 58 percent of disaster deaths and 34 percent of people affected by disasters were in the most fragile countries, as measured by the Fragile States Index. Disasters in these countries receive considerably less media coverage than the recent hurricanes that hit the United States. This lack of attention also leads many policymakers to overlook a possible opportunity: By working together to reduce fragility and vulnerability, could we not only better prepare for disaster, but also help prevent conflict? We have the policy tools to take an integrated approach to climate, conflict, and disaster—but we need the political will to use them.

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  • The Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis Around Lake Chad: UN Report Falls Short of Naming Environmental Dimensions

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    September 20, 2017  //  By Florian Krampe
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    This article was originally published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

    It is encouraging to see that the United Nations Security Council is beginning to acknowledge the transboundary dimensions of fragility and conflict, as demonstrated by its newly launched Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the Lake Chad Basin region. The report, which was presented in the Security Council on 13 September 2017, emphasizes the need for regional responses and the enhanced cooperation of different UN and humanitarian agencies as important steps to addressing the unfolding humanitarian crisis. However, while regional responses to address the regional security challenge are desirable, the report would have been stronger if it had highlighted the underlying environmental contributions of the region’s fragility. 

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  • Risk, But Also Opportunity in Climate Fragility and Terror Link

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 17, 2017  //  By Florian Krampe
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    In a recent article for New Security Beat, Colin Walch made the case that the abandonment of some communities in Mali to deal with climate change on their own has created “fertile ground” for jihadist recruitment. In a similar argument, Katharina Nett and Lukas Rüttinger in a report for adelphi asserted last month that “large-scale environmental and climatic change contributes to creating an environment in which [non-state armed groups] can thrive and opens spaces that facilitate the pursuit of their strategies.”

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  • In Kosovo, Post-War Water Faults Show Challenge of Balancing Political With Technical

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 1, 2016  //  By Florian Krampe
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    Rivers have shaped the Western Balkan Peninsula’s characteristic landscape and played an important role in its history. Following the violence of the Yugoslav secession wars in the 1990s and the creation of six new nations, the number of transboundary river basins doubled from 6 to 13. In Kosovo, where independence remains a question, the water sector is a microcosm of tensions between ethnic Serbs and Albanians. The challenge of water resource management exists not only over the province’s contested national boundaries with Serbia, but between divided ethnic groups within the territory.

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  • Community Empowerment vs. State Stability? Lessons From Nepal’s Micro-Hydropower Projects

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 29, 2016  //  By Florian Krampe
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    Post-war countries are among the most difficult policy arenas. The challenge is not only to stop violence and prevent violence from rekindling, but moreover to help countries reset their internal relations on a peaceful path. Increasingly, researchers and practitioners are interested in the potential of natural resources in post-war settings in the hope that good governance and sustainable management can contribute to this reset. Indeed, the international community acknowledged the relevance of the link between peaceful societies and environmental issues by including both in the Sustainable Development Goals.

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  • Nepal’s Micro-Hydropower Projects Have Surprising Effect on Peace Process

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 14, 2014  //  By Florian Krampe
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    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fifth assessment, which has been rolling out in stages since last September, confirms a crucial divide in current climate thinking: efforts to adapt and mitigate to climate change are often considered separately from the vulnerability of people.

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