The UN Support Mission in the country should reassess its approach so that consensus between the warring parties becomes the eventual goal, rather than a procedural matter that dogs the negotiating process at every turn.

For settled descendants of nomadic or seminomadic communities on Jordan’s periphery, the future looks uncertain as government employment is declining, natural resources are dwindling, temperatures are rising, and traditional cross-border ties are restricted.

For the traditionally nomadic Amazigh pastoralists in the Draa-Tafilalet region, environmental change has exacerbated long-standing inequities, forcing the community to adapt, which has laid bare the blind spots of state-centered climate policy frameworks.