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Sinéad Barry

@sineadbarry.bsky.social
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Climate, peace, and security | Reintegration and post-conflict transitions | Sporadic journalist Opinions my own (at best).

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Sinéad Barry @sineadbarry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Happy to share our latest report on #Climate, Peace and Environmental #Resilience in the Asia-Pacific region! Check it out for insights on: 🌐 Streamlining regional expertise into international institutions 🚗 Supporting safe, dignified mobility ♻️ Advancing a just transition framework ➕ and more!
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
currently making me laugh: all the people from way outside of NYC being like "why the hell do I care so much about the mayoral race" A THREAD 🧵
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Climate Diplomacy and Security @climatediplo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🆕The latest episode of the podcast dives into the complex relationship between conflict, climate change and the environment in Yemen and what recent cuts in foreign aid mean for projects and programming w/ @omeisy.bsky.social (@eurpeace.bsky.social) & @sineadbarry.bsky.social 🎙️ adelph.it/podcast47
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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Wir trauern um unseren Autor und Freund, Wolfgang Sporrer. Sein Leben und Wirken waren geleitet von der Maxime, dass Frieden die Grundlage ist, auf der eine bessere Welt erst möglich wird. jacobin.de/autoren/wolf...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"The bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world's most complicated problems"
The image features a dark wall with a quote that reads, "The bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world's most complicated problems," accompanied by the handlebars of a bicycle on the lower left.
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🌹There is no love. There are only proofs of love. Time for the 46 European governments to move beyond good intentions & take a firm position on Feb. 25th in favour of a legally binding instrument to protect the right to a healthy environment under the 🇪🇺 European Convention on Human Rights
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Jane McAdam @profjmcadam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Don't forget to register for our speed briefing on a new legal toolkit to protect people displaced in the context of climate change. The Australian one is tomorrow - Fri 14 Feb 12.30-1pm. Full details here www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/02...
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New global toolkit to guide refugee claims involving climate change and disasters
Climate impacts are arising in protection claims worldwide. A ground-breaking new global toolkit shows how decision-makers across the globe are grappling with such claims, offering practical legal gui...
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Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There has been little to no rainfall in northern #Syria, the country's bread basket, and we're getting alarming footage from our partners showing barren land, which should be green by now. What will this bring for the future? See our 2022 report on these fears reliefweb.int/report/syria...
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Sinéad Barry @sineadbarry.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"President Trump’s funding freeze has thrown into confusion the future of a Syrian desert camp holding thousands of Islamic State members and their families." Let's not forget, almost 2 in 3 #AlHol detainees are children, most of whom are too young to remember IS-rule, let alone be fighters.
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U.S. Waives Aid Funding Freeze at Syrian Camp Holding ISIS Fighters (Gift Article)
Upholding security at the camp is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State. A contractor that trains the police there got a temporary waiver allowing it to continue operating.
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
More on FEWSnet shutdown from Devex:
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USAID-funded famine early warning system goes offline due to aid freeze
A key food insecurity data tool used by humanitarian groups worldwide has been taken down due to the Trump administration's stop-work order on USAID, raising alarm among aid workers.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“This is not about taking action against a person’s voice. This is the commission saying that everyone’s voice should be equal.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Elon Musk Is Giving Europeans a Headache
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/01/2025
More than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war in Gaza, according to a new study. It suggests that the Hamas health ministry tally, a figure the UN relies on, is a significant undercount. nyti.ms/4fZxCIv
The aftermath of Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip. The text reads: "Death Toll in Gaza Likely 40% Higher Than Reported, Researchers Say." Photo by Yousef Masoud for The New York Times.
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benjaminpohlberlin.bsky.social @benjaminpohlberlin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
"a perverse incentive drove our system. To win promotions and bigger salaries, military and civilian leaders felt they had to sell their tours of duty, deployments, programs and projects as successes — even when they were not" #Afghanistan www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
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Opinion | I Audited the Afghan Reconstruction. It Was Doomed From the Start.
Greed and self-delusion kept the money flowing, and hid the truth from the public.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
With recent news that 40% of Earth's land habitats are now categorised as drylands, the capacity of solar farms to prevent desertification seems doubly significant.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A reminder to please pay your freelancers before popping off for the holidays otherwise Santa won’t visit you and you will be doomed to live in a forever-winter with no Christmas and Mr Tumnus will be turned to stone.
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Sinéad Barry @sineadbarry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Undercurrents shows how civil war, environmental degradation and mismanagement have reduced #water and #land resources in Yemen, driving further #conflict. In this assessment, we at @climatediplo.bsky.social outline why climate and environmental action must be part of #Yemen's peace efforts.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 05/12/2024
A STACK of interesting OA papers in this special issue on the relationships between armed conflicts and forests; Andes, Bangladesh, #Syria, #Afghanistan, #frankinsense and more www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Trees, Forests and People | Legacy of Warfare on the World's Forests | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Through human history, conflict has been a continued and devastating force to ecosystems. Historically, these impacts have included mass deforestation to garner resources to support the military compl...
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Climate Diplomacy and Security @climatediplo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
📬 On our latest newsletter: 🎙️Climate finance & peace at #COP29 📺UNCCD's #COP16Riyadh: How ecosystem restoration can foster peace 🔎Regional study on cooperation between #Azerbaijan and #Georgia ✍Keeping #ClimateSecurity human-centric Read: adelph.it/10thIssue2024 Subscribe: adelph.it/ECCnewsletter
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Sinéad Barry @sineadbarry.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#Syria's conflict was never frozen... Particularly for the tens of thousands detained or trying to re-establish their lives post-IS. Some resources from us and others on what Syrians in the Northeast have been facing in the last years ⬇️ shorturl.at/XeFt1 shorturl.at/SXBI0 shorturl.at/ILuYG
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📌 #AOLetsGo: Ongoing today: #ClimateJustice hearings at⚖️🇺🇳 International Court of Justice - a historical moment 🧵live thread below with summaries of key arguments, context & relevant links ⬇️ 🎙️Hear from Pacific Islands Student Fighting Climate Change's Vishal Prasad setting the stage. A 🧵👇
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benjaminpohlberlin.bsky.social @benjaminpohlberlin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"Cette décision ... marque un tournant historique. ... En effet, après 66 ans de la proclamation de la république du #Tchad, il est temps pour le Tchad d'affirmer sa souveraineté pleine et entière" 👇
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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I wrote about the elephant in the room at COP: National debt. Developing countries are drowning in debts owed to states, private bondholders, and banks. Disasters provoke more debt. New climate finance often comes as debt, too. It's a dangerous spiral. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Climate Diplomacy’s $300 Billion Failure
Climate negotiations at COP29 ended in a deal that mostly showed how far the world is from facing climate change’s real dangers.
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Alex Randall @alex-randall.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🌍 Somalia’s $100M climate fund success is a breakthrough, but conflict-hit nations need $35B annually to adapt. Can climate finance overcome fear to invest where risk is highest?
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Can climate funders overcome fear to tread in conflict zones?
At COP29, fragile climate-vulnerable countries launched a network aimed at securing the climate finance they say has been slow to come as their needs surge Conflict-hit countries launch a network…
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Sinéad Barry @sineadbarry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Military operations are contributing to emissions and environmental degradation, reducing capacities to adapt to climate change, and rearranging international CS priorities. Our op-ed argues that as #climatesecurity expands, human security and peace must remain central ⬇
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