Global Opportunities for Strengthening Resource Security (June 2023)
Exploring the challenges associated with natural resource management, climate change, and conflict.
Frontiers: The Future of Resources, Climate, and Conflict
The links between natural resources, conflict, and violence are complex and varied. The “resource curse” theory popularized in the 1990s has largely given way to a more sophisticated understanding of how and when land and natural resource management exacerbates or mitigates conflict. But even this new understanding is being upended by climate change, which is throwing formerly stable systems of land and resource governance into disarray and instigating competition and conflict over dwindling resources.
Join USAID’s Center for Conflict and Violence Prevention and USAID’s Land and Resource Governance Division for an event series that explores the interface of conflict, climate change, and the governance of land and natural resources. The Frontiers series is made possible by USAID’s Integrated Natural Resources Management Project in partnership with New America.
Past Frontiers Events
Innovative Approaches for Women’s Land Rights (CSW67) (March 2023)
Exploring lessons learned and outcomes from over a decade of gender-responsive land documentation work.
Standing With Environmental Defenders Under Threat (January 2023)
How can the global community do a better job of standing with environmental defenders and protect them against threats?
The Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure, Ten Years Later (June 2022)
Reflecting on ten years of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure, a first-of-its-kind international agreement to strengthen land rights.
Women Leading Solutions to Climate Change (CSW66) (March 2022)
A discussion with USAID and New America leadership, among others, on how women are leading solutions to land and natural resource management and climate change challenges.
This is a partnered event series with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).