Online Learning
Global Land Tool Network - This open-source platform gives you free access to courses and learning resources designed to help you understand and use a selection of GLTN’s land tools. GLTN has developed a collection of dynamic learning instruments using simple and captivating visuals, combined with audio narrations in some courses, to improve the learning experience. The platform is device friendly, meaning you can access the courses anytime and on any tablet or smartphone device, while your progress is synced using the course tracking features. The courses have been divided into modules to make it easier for you to absorb the information. Interactive tests and illustrative case studies are also part of the learning process to help you track your own progress. The learning resources include instructive videos, lectures, structured knowledge instruments and other reference materials.
Environmental Security and Sustainability Online Course - Environmental peacebuilding has emerged as a new frontier in interdisciplinary studies. It offers a conceptual and operational framework to understand the positive peacebuilding potential of natural resources across the conflict lifecycle while mitigating potential risks. This free, 8-week course on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace provides an in-depth introduction to the multiple roles that natural resources and the environment play in the onset, escalation, and resolution of, and recovery from, violent conflicts. Many of the considerations and approaches in this course are also relevant to understanding and addressing social conflicts around natural resources and the environment.
Mining Contracts: How to Read and Understand Them: Drawing from several of the contracts on ResourceContracts.org, "Mining Contracts: How to Read and Understand Them" is a book created to highlight strong contract clauses and explore how others could be improved. It goes beyond legal considerations to explore the policy questions and company interests underlying contract provisions—issues that are crucial for understanding and negotiating contracts, and for monitoring their enforcement. The organisation issuing this book are International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP), OpenOil, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC), and Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI).