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These plugins can also be installed directly from the QGIS Plugin Manager within the QGIS application. There is a collection of plugins ready to be used, available to download. Elaine has founded and led multiple initiatives and is an active member in local and global networks.QGIS plugins add additional functionality to the QGIS application. She has a PhD in Resource Management & Environmental Studies from the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and a JD and LLM in International and Environmental Law from Pace Law School. Elaine is also a Research Affiliate with the Biodiversity and Security research project and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Rwanda's Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management. Currently, she is Co-Chairing the IUCN CEESP Theme on Environment and Peace, under which she established a Task Force on Migration, Environmental Change, and Conflict, and is an Honorary Member of the ICCA Consortium. Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao is the Global Challenges Fellow at the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) and is an interdisciplinary legal scholar, specializing in transboundary conservation areas, environmental peacebuilding and indigenous/community conservation. Elaine has founded and led multiple initiatives and is an active member in local and global networks. Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao is the Global Challenges Fellow at the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) and is an interdisciplinary legal scholar, specializing in transboundary conservation areas, environmental peacebuilding and… Read moreĭr. As resource-rich biodiversity hotspots, they may become the locus of natural resource conflicts or the resource ‘bank’ for armed groups… Read moreĭr. Protected areas can play a variety of roles in the context of environmental security, conflict and peace processes. Understanding transboundary conservation on these borders can provide insight into how we can improve legal arrangements through transboundary conservation for peace. Geographically they are all part of the Albertine Rift and Great Rift Valley, one large-scale landscape that has been an ancient pathway for transcontinental elephant migration and cattle corridor for nomadic pastoralists - both increasingly challenged by land fragmentation and climate change. In each of these border regions, park managers have collaborated with neighboring parks to protect natural resources.


Uganda is a land-locked East African nation with eight of its ten national parks sitting on conflictafflicted international borders. When insecurity or conflict involves international borders, the crossborder conservation areas become particularly salient. These 'wild spaces' offer different opportunities and challenges in the various stages of conflict, conflict transformation and peacebuilding. They might become refuge for armed combatants, or perhaps even the sanctuary of endangered species fleeing armed conflicts. As resource-rich biodiversity hotspots, they may become the locus of natural resource conflicts or the resource ‘bank’ for armed groups trafficking natural resources to finance violent conflicts.
