Activities
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (also known as EnPAx®) pursues its mission of fostering knowledge development and exchange, building capacity and awareness and strengthening relationships between scholars, practitioners, and decision makers through an integrated series of activities:
Interest Groups foster connections, networking, and knowledge exchange. Membership in the Interest Groups is open to all members of the Association. Current Interest Groups include:
- Africa Interest Group
- Big Data and Frontier Technologies Interest Group
- Disasters & Resilience Interest Group
- Education Interest Group
- Forest Interest Group
- Gender Interest Group
- Law Interest Group
- Monitoring & Evaluation Interest Group
- Water Interest Group
- Young Professionals Interest Group
Conferences, webinars, panels, and other events, including:
- International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (including the First Conference 2019, the Second Conference in 2022, and others)
- Association webinars (open to all, but archived recordings available only to members)
In addition, EnPAx® collects, generates, and shares knowledge on environment, conflict, and peace for the broader public through:
- Massive open online course (MOOC) on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace
- Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform (www.environmentalpeacebuilding.org)
- Environmental Peacebuilding Community of Practice (Google Group, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook; > 3200 people)
- Environmental Peacebuilding Update
- Environmental Peacebuilding Academy
- Annual Award and Distinguished Lecture on environmental peacebuilding
- Environmental Peacebuilding Working Group
The Association is developing other activities, including a peer-reviewed journal.