Mediating Resilience: Inclusive and Climate-Informed Pathways to Peace

Kevin Brown

Tue, 03/24/2026 - 15:16

Mediating Resilience - Executive Summary (255.13 KB)

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Climate change is intensifying competition over land, water, and other shared resources—fueling disputes, insecurity, and violence in climate-stressed pastoralist regions. At the same time, effective natural resource governance and dispute resolution depend on inclusive processes that reflect the distinct roles and influence of men, women, and youth in both resource use and community decision-making. Yet women and girls—often central users and stewards of natural resources and informal conflict mediators—are frequently excluded from formal governance and mediation mechanisms.…