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Environmental Conflict

General Conflict and Dispute Resolution

CRInfo: International Edition Large directory of web and print resources on international conflict and dispute resolution from the Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado, which also produced the International Online Training Program on Intractable Conflict and many other information resources.

International Security Network Links Library: Conflict Management

ConflictWeb (USAID)

United States Institute of Peace

International Crisis Group

 

Environmental Conflict

Gateways and Collections

Environment, Development and Conflict - EDC News (Goteborg University, Sweden)
Amazing resource - includes excellent reviews of articles, books and reports and often links to full text and original sources. Research resources are also organized by topic and source."EDC News is dedicated to disseminate and discuss research on links between environment, development and conflict. The basic idea is to apply the outcome of ongoing international research to contemporary cases."

Dark Side of Natural Resources (Global Policy Forum)

Inventory of Conflict and Environment (American University)

International Development Research Centre - Peacebuilding and Reconstruction

Investigating the Impact of Agrarian Polices on Conflict and Peacebuilding (Report - full-text)

Alternative Approaches to Managing Conflict Over Natural Resources (Report - full-text)

 

Projects and Papers

Environmental Change & Security Project

The Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence

Project on Environment, Population and Security

Global Environmental Change and Human Securities Project

Environmental Quality and Regional Conflict Paper resulting from a project supported by the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

Environmental Conditions, Resources and Conflicts Paper by Daniel Schwartz and Ashbindu Singh, 1999 - UNE.

The Importance of Defining Technical Issues in Inter-agency Environmental Negotiations

 

Tools and Legal Instruments

Environmental Dispute Resolution - Rules of Procedure for Arbitration of Disputes Relating to Natural Resources and / or the Environment (Permanent Court of Arbitration)

Rules for Success in Environmental Negotiation

Legal Institutional Analysis Model Downloadable software and documentation.

 

Regional

Africa

African Center for Technology Studies

Centre for Conflict Resolution

Environmental Flashpoints in Sub-Saharan Africa Report - CIESIN.

 

Asia

Conflict over Natural Resources in South-East Asia and the Pacific Book - full text available online from United Nations University Press.

Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India Book - full text available. online from United Nations University Press.

The Water and Soil Crisis in Central Asia - a Source for Future Conflicts? Report by Stefan Klötzli, 1994 - ENCOP.

Thinking About Environmental Security: Southeast Asia and the Americas in Comparative Perspective
Working Paper by Frank McNeil and Jeffrey Stark, 2001 - Dante B. Fascell North-South Center, University of Miami.

 

Middle East

Hydropolitics along the Jordan River: Scarce Water and its Impact on the Arab-Israeli Conflict Book - full text available online from United Nations University Press.

Water Disputes in the Jordan Basin Region and their Role in the Resolution of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Report by Stephan Libiszewski, 1995 - ENCOP.

Waternet: water, conflict and politics in the Middle East