Environmental Rights as a Matter of Survival

When Ning Savat laid down his arms at the end of Cambodia’s civil war, he returned to what he hoped would be a simple, peaceful life as a fisherman. What he did not know was that he was stepping into one of the country’s most prominent popular struggles of the post-war period.

Policy, PracticeAllie AstellApril 20, 2014governance, Cambodia, Southeast Asia, fisheries, conflict, civil war, human rights, United Nations, peacebuilding, Carnegie Council

Linking Environmental Governance and Peacebuilding at Rio

“Natural resource management, environment, good governance, and political stability: they are all so interrelated,” says Madam Haddijatou Jallow, head of the Environment Protection Agency in Sierra Leone.

PolicyAllie AstellJune 13, 2012governance, peacebuilding, conflict, transparency, participation, forests, land, mining, United Nations, Sierra Leone, Liberia, West Africa, Earth Institute

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