New Security Beat

.@jeannielsowers discusses the humanitarian challenges and targeting of civilian infrastructure occurring in the Yemen War and her research's goal of understanding these risks and constraints for #environmentalpeacebuilding

70% of Yemen's population lives in rural areas and over 50% employed in agriculture-related activities. The targeting of agriculture and fishing infrastructure undermines livelihoods and increases internal displacement.

Tobias Ide presents on bottom-up approaches to #environmentalpeacebuilding in Timor-Leste

Tara bandu (“hanging prohibitions”) is the process of negotiation and a ritual ceremony used in Timor-Leste to manage local environmental issues and simultaneously addresses community tensions and violence

Tobias Ide's research insights highlight Tara bandu as a successful, endogenous environmental peacebuilding approach and the importance of spiritual ecologies.

.@mckenz_johnson's research objective is to understand how & why governance reforms produced conditions that created violent conflict over tantalite or "black stone" extraction – the opposite of what we would expect

In Sierra Leone, the conflict over tentalite or "black stone" is between a local landowner cooperative and a multinational company, with both sides claiming to be the ones complying with the regulatory process dictated by Sierra Leone’s mining laws.