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  • Farmers-Herders Conflicts in Nigeria: A Role for FBOs?

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    By Ojemire B. Daniel  // Friday, May 26, 2023
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    This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

    Nigeria is home to many violent conflicts, one of which is the farmers-herders conflict that has posed severe security challenges in the country. The human toll of the violence has been immense, claiming more lives than the Boko Haram insurgency. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed or displaced. Nigeria has also experienced increased ethnic, regional, and religious polarization, and this crisis has undermined national stability and unity.

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    Topics: New Security Beat, Western Africa
  • Building Peace by Formalizing Gold Mining in the Central Sahel

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    By Jorden de Haan & Aly Diarra  // Thursday, May 25, 2023
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    This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

    The Central Sahel is increasingly deemed the new epicenter of terrorism, accounting for 35 percent of global terrorism deaths in 2021. Yet as the situation in the region continues to deteriorate, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) both persists and proliferates. For instance, in Mali, where much of the region’s security crisis originates, this conundrum is laid bare.

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    Topics: Central Africa, New Security Beat, Northern Africa
  • Articles in Focus / In the News:

    Climate, Poverty, Democracy: What is at Stake in Nigeria’s 2023 Election?

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    By Adenike Oladosu  // Friday, February 24, 2023
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    This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

    On February 25, Nigeria will hold its presidential election. The stakes of this ballot could not be any higher—especially for the climate. Climate change is an existential and current reality in Nigeria, and the coming decade will be crucial to meet the nation’s sustainable development goals. It will take political will to make climate justice a reality, and Nigerians now have the opportunity to choose leaders who will either make or mar the action to address this threat.

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    Topics: Articles in Focus, In the News, New Security Beat, Western Africa
  • Should Demography Weigh in on U.S. Response to Coups d’Etat?

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    By Richard Cincotta  // Thursday, February 16, 2023
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    This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

    When a military-led or military-influenced coup d’état occur in a foreign country, does evidence from demographic research merit consideration in the U.S. foreign policy response? It’s a question that U.S. policymakers should be asking as deteriorating political conditions in West Africa come increasingly into confluence with the limited tools available either to deter or respond to illegal and extra-legal forms of political succession.

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    Topics: New Security Beat, Stay Informed
  • Meeting Africa’s Demographic Challenge

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    By Phillip Carter III & Stephen Schwartz  // Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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    This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

    Often cast into the backwaters of U.S. foreign policy, sub-Saharan Africa now looms large as the Biden Administration grapples with a wide range of global challenges. President Biden will soon host the upcoming Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington, that acknowledges the U.S. government must do much more in Africa in order to advance U.S. interests and global prosperity.

    Africa will play an increasingly important role in the global economy in this century. The war in Ukraine and China’s increasingly aggressive international posture have wiped away Western somnolence. Seeking to counter Russian and Chinese influence on the continent, the U.S. and its Western partners now are scrambling for Africa’s resources and diplomatic support.

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    Topics: Governance and Emerging Global Challenges, New Security Beat, Stay Informed
  • In the News:

    Food Security as a Driver for Sustainable Peace in Kenya

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    By Yiran Ning  // Monday, September 19, 2022

    AFR-Blog-NSB-Sept2022This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

    “The food system is complex; it is not just about food production,” said Florence Odiwuor, a Kenyan Southern Voices for Peacebuilding Scholar, at a recent event on the role of food security systems in sustainable peacebuilding in Africa hosted by the Wilson Center’s Africa Program. As a lecturer at the School of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environmental Studies at Rongo University, Odiwour observed that given the food system’s interconnectedness with issues like education, gender, finance, and labor, “disruptions or failures in the [food] system have caused a lot of conflict in [Kenya].

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  • Fishing for Equity and Inclusion: Women’s Socioeconomic Factors in Kenyan Fisheries

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    By Margaret Gatonye  // Tuesday, August 30, 2022

    Margaret-Gatonye-NSB_Photo-645x364This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center

    Seeing Loreta sort and dry her Omena sardines at the shores of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya, one may dismiss this small, middle-aged woman as an ordinary fishmonger struggling to earn a living.

    Yet Loreta does more than sell raw fish. Every morning, she walks seven miles to Sori, the nearest fish landing site to her village, to buy fresh fish and then carry it to sell in the nearby market. She also works with other women in her village, empowering them to start small businesses of their own by training and mentoring them.
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    Topics: Eastern Africa, New Security Beat, Stay Informed
  • The “Fuel of the Future” and Water Insecurity in South Africa’s Platinum Belt

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    By Tokollo Matsabu  // Wednesday, May 18, 2022

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    This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

    A new contribution in a continuing series examining “backdraft“—the unintended consequences of climate change responses—and how its effects might be anticipated and minimized to avoid conflict and promote peace.

    Hydrogen fuel is becoming a central pillar of global decarbonization strategies. The hype over green hydrogen (the “fuel of the future”) and its potential to provide an abundance of low carbon fuel to transportation and industry has enticed several major emitting countries to scale up its production. And a UN-backed initiative wants to achieve a 50-fold production increase in the next six years.

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  • When Climate Change Meets Geopolitics

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    By Giulio Boccaletti  // Wednesday, January 5, 2022

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    This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

    Deteriorating security in Ethiopia, a country W.E.B. Dubois once described as where “the sunrise of human culture took place,” is deeply concerning. The last few months have seen a dramatic involution for a country that was once a poster child for sustainable development. The conflict between the government and rebel forces in Tigray is not just a matter of regional security, but a significant blow to the world’s efforts to fight climate change.

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    Topics: Eastern Africa, New Security Beat, Stay Informed
  • Articles in Focus:

    Thomas Sankara’s Lost Legacy

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    By Richard Cincotta  // Thursday, December 9, 2021

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    This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

    Thirty-four years ago, Burkina Faso’s president, Thomas Sankara, was murdered. Only now are his alleged assassins on trial. Had he survived, the arid, landlocked country of more than 20 million people might well have taken a far different path to development.

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    Topics: Articles in Focus, New Security Beat
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