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The Peace Forest Initiative (PFI) represents a beacon of hope in these unprecedented times of growing instability. By merging ecological restoration, education and dialogue with peacebuilding and conflict-sensitive approaches, the PFI seeks to create sustainable communities and foster cooperative coexistence. In bringing together diverse stakeholders, including governments, international organizations, and local communities, moreover, it offers a model for global cooperation and peace, nurturing both people and nature for a more sustainable future. The PFI is also timely, in its alignment with increasing efforts to integrate peacebuilding efforts into climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. This brochure provides insight into the PFI, presenting an overview of its purpose, key milestones, and success stories in the area of environmental peacebuilding.

This Learning Brief documents the main lessons drawn from the country investment implemented jointly by FAO and UNESCO and their implementing partners in South Sudan from 2019 to 2021 in the framework of the Global Network Against Food Crises Partnership Programme, funded by the European Union. It showcases key learning on the role of the Pastoralist Livelihoods and Education Field Schools (PLEFS) approach in enhancing food security and livelihoods resilience of mobile pastoral communities and households in South Sudan’s cattle camps. More specifically, this learning brief explores how and to what extent an approach like PLEFS contributes to mitigating conflict and building resilience in pastoral areas.

Climate finance for fragile and conflict-affected contexts continues to fall short. Although extreme weather events affect three times as many people in fragile and conflict-affected states annually compared to other countries, they receive up to 80 times less climate finance. This practical note provides guidance for actors to deliver peace-positive climate action and climate-informed peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

Endorsed by more than 90 States and 40 organizations - including DPPA, DPO, UNDP, and UNEP - the Declaration is a call for collective action to build climate resilience at the scale and speed required in highly vulnerable countries and communities, particularly those threatened or affected by fragility or conflict, or facing severe humanitarian needs. It calls for enhanced financial support for climate adaptation and resilience, better understanding and improvement of good practice and programming, and strengthened coordination and partnerships. It comes with an accompanying package of contributions, many of which include support to the CSM.

This independent study was commissioned with financial support from the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), and presented at the Sixth ASEAN–UN Regional Dialogue co-organised with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia and the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. The content, methodology and findings are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations.

This report presents the findings of a study commissioned by FAO, IGAD CEWARN, IGAD-CBDFU and Interpeace and undertaken between November 2021 and April 2022. The study was aimed at analysing resource-based conflicts in the Karamoja Cluster in order to generate evidence on their causes and drivers, major parties, impacts and trends, with a view to recommending strategies for conflict-sensitive and peace-responsive programming that will address the root causes and drivers of conflict so as to strengthen food and nutrition security, address the drivers of displacement and enhance the capacity of communities to adapt to climate change.