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  • Prized Natural Resources Are Rarely Addressed in Peace Agreements

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    February 10, 2016  //  By Haodan "Heather" Chen
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    Despite evidence that natural resources play a major role in many conflicts – 40 percent of all civil wars since the end of the Cold War, according to an estimate by the UN Environment Program – a study conducted by Arthur G. Blundell and Emily E. Harwell for the NGO Forest Trends reveals that most ceasefire and peace agreements do not address natural resources.

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  • Zika Virus Prompts El Salvador and Others to Discourage Pregnancy – What Are the Potential Consequences?

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 29, 2016  //  By Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba
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    The government of El Salvador took a truly extraordinary step in an attempt to control the rapidly spreading Zika virus last week by asking its citizens to avoid getting pregnant from now until 2018. Yes, you read that right.

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  • Kate Gilmore on Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the “Toughest of Times, in the Hardest of Places”

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    Friday Podcasts  //  January 29, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    gilmore-small“Right now, 1.5 billion people are living in humanitarian crisis – living in conflict-afflicted regions,” says Kate Gilmore, deputy executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in this week’s podcast.

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  • Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda on Elevating Young Female Leaders By Giving Them Space

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    Friday Podcasts  //  January 22, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    Gumbonzvanda-small“The demographic data is telling us that the future is very young and the future is very female,” says Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a lawyer and general secretary of the World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA), in this week’s podcast. “And therefore, we actually have an imperative to respond.”

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  • An Environmental Migration Review and 6 Recommendations to Build Livelihood Resilience

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    Reading Radar  //  January 20, 2016  //  By Haodan "Heather" Chen

    RR1_1An article in the Annual Review of Sociology reviews much of the research on the relationship between environmental factors and migration, providing a timely overview of a complex field. “Migration is often a household strategy to diversify risk,” write Lori Hunter et al., but can be influenced by any number of determinants, including at the macro level (e.g., environmental, social, cultural, economic, and political dynamics), the meso level (e.g., intervening obstacles and facilitators), as well as the micro level (e.g., personal and household characteristics).

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  • Fire and Oil: The Collateral Environmental Damage of Airstrikes on ISIS Oil Facilities

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 13, 2016  //  By Wim Zwijnenburg & Annica Waleij

    As the United States, Russia, and others step up attacks on the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), there is concern over their direct and long-term environmental and public health impacts. Many air strikes have targeted lucrative oil installations under the control of ISIS, and these could have severe detrimental effects for Syria’s future, both environmentally and socio-economically. Questions around the effectiveness of these strikes, both from a military and political perspective, seem to be missing in the wider debate.

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  • Empower, Educate, and Employ Youth to Realize the Demographic Dividend

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    From the Wilson Center  //  January 8, 2016  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In the course of development, most countries undergo a demographic transition. Health conditions improve and mortality rates decline, causing rapid population growth and a relatively high proportion of young people. Over time, if fertility declines, as it has in most places, growth slows and there is a period when the proportion of very young “dependents” shrinks in comparison to the working age population. This moment represents an opportunity for a “demographic dividend” – an economic boom as a comparatively large cohort of the total population moves through their most economically productive years. [Video Below]

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  • After Paris, What’s the Status of “Environmental Refugees?”

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    Wilson on COP-21  //  January 7, 2016  //  By James F. Hollifield & Idean Salehyan
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    “Wilson Perspectives: The Paris Climate Agreement” is a series of short essays exploring the key issues that emerged during the 21st Conference of Parties that originally appeared on WilsonCenter.org.

    One of the hidden costs of climate change is the displacement of millions of people in some of the poorest regions of the globe. The existing international refugee regime is ill-suited to cope with those seeking refuge from environmental disasters. Countries must get serious about developing coordinated plans to address the issue, lest they be caught by surprise when another humanitarian crisis hits.

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