Environmental Peacebuilding & Climate Justice

Peacebuilders in Type 24 connect the environment and climate change to war, conflict and peace. The type includes environment and climate justice advocates integrating peacebuilding approaches, activists raising awareness of the environmental harms of war and militarism, environmental scientists, community organizers, and indigenous and local communities working for peace and environmental justice. It works at every level, from grassroots to international.

Peacebuilding approaches used by this type include:

  • Natural resource sharing and cooperation for peace, including managing shared water across borders and community-based resource management
  • Advocacy on the environmental harms of war, militarism and nuclear threats, documenting destruction from warfare, weapons testing and military bases
  • Environmental and climate justice activism, including the unequal effects of pollution on marginalized communities, known as environmental racism
  • Conservation peacebuilding and peace parks, establishing transboundary protected areas in former conflict zones
  • Protecting land, water and natural resources, including indigenous land rights, territorial sovereignty and water protector movements
  • Green economy and sustainable livelihoods that provide economic alternatives to resource conflicts
  • Ecovillages and intentional communities modeling sustainable, cooperative and nonviolent ways of living
  • Environmental peacebuilding research and training on climate-environment-conflict links and climate security frameworks
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