A Matter of Survival: Report of the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace
Report and recommendations from the High-Level Panel on Water and Peace on the ways to address water security throughout the cycle of conflicts.
UN Environment | Perspectives: Conflict pollution and the toxic remnants of war
With 2017’s UN Environment Assembly focusing on the theme of pollution, UN Environment’s Civil Society Unit invited the TRW Project to contribute an extended article on conflict pollution to its long-running Perspectives series.
Amb Marie Jacobsson | Working to Protect the Environment in Armed Conflict
Blog examining post-2011 efforts to strengthen the legal framework protecting the environment in relation to armed conflicts.
UNEA-2 | Resolution: Protection of the environment in areas affected by armed conflict
This UN Environment Assembly resolution helped reaffirm UN Environment’s mandate to work on conflicts and was a sign of the growing international interest in addressing the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts.
ILC | Third report on the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts
The third report of the ILC’s Special Rapporteur proposed a number of principles related to post-conflict environmental measures, by necessity these placed a greater reliance on the practice of states and international organisations than those proposed during conflicts.
Environmental peacebuilding | Book series
A major multi-year project to document environmental policy and practice from conflict zones around the world in order to create a foundation for the field of environmental peacebuilding.
ILPI | Report: Expert Meeting on the Protection of the Environment in times of Armed Conflict, Helsinki 2015
This workshop reviewed the findings of the empirical study by ILPI into the environmental dimensions of international and non-international armed conflicts.
ICRC: Urban services during protracted armed conflict
Based on 30 years of ICRC work in urban conflict zones, this report warns that unless humanitarian agencies adopt a different approach to assisting urban populations in conflict, the human and social cost could be catastrophic, with the deterioration of critical infrastructure leaving people without essential services.