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Jeremy Moore

Interim Director, Scholastic Competitions

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Jeremy Moore is the interim director for the scholastic competitions program at USIP, where he leads grant and fellowship initiatives related to environmental peacebuilding, multilateralism, peace processes and reconciliation.

Moore previously spent eight years as part of USIP’s Asia Center, focusing on field projects and research in Afghanistan, Burma, China, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan. He has previously worked for the Senate office of then-Senator Joe Biden, the National Democratic Institute and Project Vote Smart and was a member of Democracy International's election observation mission during the audit of the 2014 Afghanistan presidential election.

Moore graduated with a master’s in international relations from Bond University in Australia and obtained a bachelor’s in government at the University of Redlands.

Publications By Jeremy

Armed Force Isn’t Saving Colombia’s Forests, But a New Effort Might

Armed Force Isn’t Saving Colombia’s Forests, But a New Effort Might

Thursday, April 20, 2023

By: Jeremy Moore;  Jordon Mpingo

In six years since Colombia signed a peace agreement with its largest rebel movement, farmers, miners, loggers and armed groups have surged into the nation’s forests, felling trees and accelerating deforestation and its ills: a destabilized global climate and destruction of biodiversity and local communities’ habitats. As Colombia struggles to establish effective governance, the state is trying to shift away from previous reliance on military force to curb deforestation, a strategy that bred mistrust and violent conflict with local communities. Now a Colombian university is developing more effective forest-protection techniques to build sustainable solutions with those communities — an approach that can be shared globally.

Type: Analysis

Environment

Kenya: As Drought Deepens Land Conflicts, Peacebuilders Respond

Kenya: As Drought Deepens Land Conflicts, Peacebuilders Respond

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

By: Jeremy Moore

Amid lengthening droughts in a changing climate, millions of herders in northern Kenya are watching their traditional grazing lands dry and harden. As in pastoralist regions from Mongolia to the Sahel, Kenyan herders are now guiding their cattle, camels, sheep or goats longer distances in search of pasturage. The competition for scarcer grassland and water has triggered conflicts and bloodshed among herding communities. But at the grass roots of northern Kenyan society, activists are combining local knowledge and peacebuilding skills to create new ways for rival groups to cooperatively adapt to the changes from a degrading climate.

Type: Blog

Environment

What Works in Youth Projects? Lessons for the Youth, Peace, and Security Field

What Works in Youth Projects? Lessons for the Youth, Peace, and Security Field

Monday, October 5, 2020

By: Rebecca Ebenezer-Abiola;  Jeremy Moore

Until the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2250 in 2015, the international community had no comprehensive framework with which to address the specific needs and opportunities of a key demographic group—young people. This report presents the findings of a meta-review assessing fifty-one youth projects supported or implemented by USIP between 2011 and 2018 and offers recommendations for continuing to develop and support peacebuilding activities with effective engagement, cooperation, and flexibility among civil society organizations and funders.

Type: Special Report

Youth

Can We Make Peace with the Coronavirus?

Can We Make Peace with the Coronavirus?

Monday, April 27, 2020

By: Erica L. Sheeran;  Jeremy Moore

As humanity struggles to confront the coronavirus pandemic, we face no greater obstacle than the violent conflicts worldwide that prevent many communities and nations from the necessary task of working in unison. Is it conceivable to have Israelis and Palestinians working cooperatively to contain the virus, or the opposing sides in bitter conflicts from Afghanistan to Yemen? It is not only conceivable, a practical model for achieving this cooperation is available in the work of environmental peacebuilders—visionary groups that have been working across the lines of conflict to confront the universal threat of climate change.

Type: Analysis

Environment;  Global Health;  Economics

The Urgency and Complexity of Environmental Peacebuilding

The Urgency and Complexity of Environmental Peacebuilding

Thursday, February 13, 2020

By: Jeremy Moore

Daily news headlines sometimes note, but often omit, the rise in violent conflicts linked to environmental shocks from our changing climate. People in parts of Central Asia have fought in recent years over water, and Nigerian farmers and cattle herders fight over shrinking grasslands in an episodic war that now kills more people than the violence of Boko Haram. This nexus recently led specialists on both problems—conflict resolution and climate shocks—to forge a new alliance for environmental peacebuilding. The need for such work is signaled in part by the rising violence against environmental activists, of whom 164 were killed in 2018 alone.

Type: Blog

Environment;  Economics

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