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  • Lessons From Africa’s Great Lakes on How to Address Migration

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 1, 2016  //  By Alec Crawford & Angie Dazé
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    Migration is an important strategy for coping with environmental variability and change, but it can also place additional stress on ecosystems. Policymakers and practitioners are not always fully aware of these threats, nor fully prepared to manage them through appropriate interventions. Conservation professionals in the field therefore have a key role to play in reducing the harmful impacts that migration can have on the environment, and in mitigating any tensions that may emerge between migrant and host communities.

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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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  • Top 10 Posts for January 2016

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    What You Are Reading  //  February 4, 2016  //  By Schuyler Null
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    The good news is that some of the big land deals reported in Africa after the 2007-08 food crisis may have evaporated once companies realized the precarious land and legal frameworks they were stepping into. The bad news is that small farmers don’t have the same luxury, writes Landesa CEO Chris Jochnick in last month’s most-read story.

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  • Missing the Big Picture in Challenging Africa’s “Land Grab” Narrative

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 4, 2016  //  By Chris Jochnick
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    Who walks away from fertile agricultural land available to lease for as little as $1 per year per hectare? Recent reports indicate international investors are doing just that across sub-Saharan Africa.

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  • Shiloh Fetzek, A New Climate for Peace

    Geothermal Expansion in Kenya Prompts Land Conflict With Maasai

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    November 16, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Shiloh Fetzek, appeared on A New Climate for Peace.

    The booming geothermal industry in Kenya illustrates how rapid transitions to renewable energy systems can risk generating conflicts if they are not done with sensitivity to the impact of transition on marginalized populations and to local ethnic and political dynamics.

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  • Soy What? How China’s Growing Appetite is Transforming the Port of Oakland

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  October 19, 2015  //  By Susan Chan Shifflett

    As part of the Wilson Center and Circle of Blue’s Global Choke Point project, Choke Point: Port Cities will examine how Oakland, California, and Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, are responding to interlinked water, energy, and pollution challenges. These multimedia reports are meant to inform exchanges and convenings in 2016 to share among leaders of both cities and others like them around the Pacific Rim.

    There’s perhaps no better evidence of China’s growing appetite for American agricultural products than the ongoing transformation of the port of Oakland.

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  • Sam Eaton, PRI’s The World

    Human Traffickers Follow Floods in India, But Local Girls Are Fighting Back

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    September 17, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff

    The original version of this article, by Sam Eaton, appeared on PRI’s The World.

    The Sundarbans – a collection of densely populated islands in India’s sprawling Ganges Delta – are so remote that the only way to get there is by boat. But human traffickers still manage to get in, and that’s left many families with missing daughters.

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  • Peace Park Expedition to Balkans Reveals Tensions Over Development, Rule of Law for New Governments

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 31, 2015  //  By Students of the 2014 Balkans Peace Park Expedition
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    One of the last biodiversity hotspots in Europe was also backdrop to one of its last violent conflicts and now home to its newest nation states. The Prokletije/Bjeshket e Nemuna Mountains, often referred to as the Southern Alps, are a large expanse of wilderness and stunning alpine landscapes that form the border between Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo. Three national parks share borders and form a patchwork of protected land that could be the basis for an international peace park – a shared resource that could promote cross-cultural exchange collaborative natural resource management, and eco-tourism.

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