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. More information on EnPAx's Interest Groups is available here.  Current Interest Groups include:

  • Africa Interest Group
  • Big Data and Frontier Technologies (DATA) Interest Group
  • Climate Change, Disasters, & Resilience Interest Group
  • Education Interest Group
  • Forest Interest Group
  • Gender Interest Group
  • Law Interest Group
  • Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Interest Group
  • Monitoring & Evaluation Interest Group
  • Urban Interest Group
  • Water Interest Group
  • Young Professionals Interest Group

Conferences, webinars, panels, and other events, including: 

  • Biennial International Conferences on Environmental Peacebuilding (including the First Conference (Irvine, CA; 2019), Second Conference (Geneva, Switzerland; 2022), Third Conference (The Hague, Netherlands; 2024), Fourth Conference (Ottawa, Canada; 2026), and Fifth Conference (Nairobi, Kenya; 2028)
  • Thematic Symposia (focusing on Colombia (2021), the Water-Energy-Peace Nexus (2025), and Environmental Peacebuilding in Mountainous Regions (2027)) 
  • 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:

  • Environment & Security, the only peer-reviewed journal focusing on the intersection of environment, conflict and peace (free to EnPAx members, who log in and join from the link at the bottom of this page)
  • Environmental Peacebuilding Update (biweekly) and the Newsletter on Gender, Natural Resource, Climate, and Peace (monthly)
  • A Glossary of Terms on Environmental Peacebuilding (under development)
  • 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; > 4400 people)
  • Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding
  • Fellows Program, with Research Fellows and Arts Fellows