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  • The Global Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  September 16, 2020  //  By Hannah Chosid
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    “As we face a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 800,000 people as of right now around the world, we certainly have to recognize the particular impacts that that has had on women and girls and their lives,” said Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), at a recent event hosted by CARE and UNFPA about the global impact of COVID-19 on women and girls. While women make up 70-80 percent of frontline healthcare workers globally, they have also been disproportionately affected during the pandemic by increased rates of gender-based violence, lack of access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, and economic and food insecurity.

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  • Pandemic of Violence: Protecting Women during COVID-19

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  May 27, 2020  //  By Anya Prusa, Beatriz García Nice & Olivia Soledad
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    This article originally appeared on the Weekly Asado, a blog of the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program and Argentina Project.

    COVID-19 is having a profound impact on Latin American women. Gender-based violence increased drastically after governments imposed lockdowns, leaving policymakers and law enforcement scrambling to prevent attacks. Latin America was already one of the most dangerous regions for women, with the highest rate of sexual violence and some of the highest femicide numbers in the world. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean registered 3,529 femicides in 2018, or one woman killed every two hours due to her gender. For many women living through the coronavirus pandemic in Latin America, the greater health risk might be staying home.

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  • Unsung Sheroes, Climate Action, and the Global Peace and Security Agendas

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 4, 2020  //  By Marisa O. Ensor
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    “We’re fighting for our lands, for our water, for our lives,” said an indigenous woman from Colombia, describing her work as an environmental defender. She spoke at a December 2019 workshop on Gender, Peace and the Environment held in Bogotá, Colombia, that brought together social, environmental, and legal scholars and practitioners—including indigenous women—to discuss women, peace, and security issues.

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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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  • The Double Burden of Climate Exposure and State Fragility

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 15, 2018  //  By Josh Busby, Ashley Moran & Clionadh Raleigh
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    This article also appeared on the Center for Climate and Security.

    The security implications of climate change emerged as an important area of concern in the mid 2000s in both policy circles and academia. Since then, there has been much research exploring causal pathways between climate phenomena and violent conflict, often with inconclusive or mixed results.

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  • Women’s Leadership for Stability and Security

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 13, 2017  //  By Amelie Petitdemange
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    Why is Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, so peaceful? According to the country’s first female president, Joyce Banda, women get the credit: “When women are in charge, when women control the land, when the children belong to the women, when domestic violence is minimum, then you find more tranquility and peace,” said Banda, now a Wilson Center Distinguished Fellow, at an April 25th event co-sponsored by the Wilson Center’s Women in Public Service Project and Plan International USA.

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  • 8 Rules of Political Demography That Help Forecast Tomorrow’s World

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 12, 2017  //  By Richard Cincotta
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    In a world rapidly churning out unpredictable political shocks, intelligence analysts occasionally need to clear their heads of the daily barrage of newsworthy events and instead work with simple theories that discern the direction and speed of trends and help predict their outcomes. Political demography, the study of population age structures and their relationships to political trends and events, has helped some analysts predict geopolitical changes in a world that, from time to time, appears utterly chaotic.

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  • A Survey of the “War on Wildlife”: How Conflict Affects Conservation

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 3, 2017  //  By Bethany N. Bella
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    Over the last 60 years, more than two-thirds of the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots have experienced armed conflict. The effects have been myriad, from destruction as a result of military tactics to indirect socioeconomic and political changes, like human migration and displacement. This so-called “war on wildlife” has important implications for conservation and peacebuilding efforts, according to a recent literature review published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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