Awards

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) sponsors awards for leaders, practitioners, and researchers.

Award for Best Student Paper in Environmental Peacebuilding – awarded to the best paper presented by a graduate or undergraduate student at the Environmental Peacebuilding Conference.

  • 2024: Ulrika Lundin Glans, Uppsala University, "Pueblo de Mina, Pueblo de Ruina? Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) Formalization and Environmental Peacebuilding in Colombia" (Sweden)
  • 2022: Flavia Larissa Eichmann, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, “Environmental Peacebuilding in Myanmar: The Potential of Community-Based Forest Management” (Switzerland)
  • 2019: Ousseyni Kalilou, New York University, “Understanding How Climate Change Mitigation through Gum Arabic Production May Lower the Levels of Violent Conflicts in the Sahel” (Niger)

Award for Outstanding Early Career Contribution to Environmental Peacebuilding – recognizes work from students and young professionals within the field. 

  • 2024: Annika Erickson-Pearson, Professional Facilitator (Switzerland) and Katongo Seyuba, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Zambia)
  • 2022: Clare Church, Aberystwyth University (Canada)

Award for Enhancing the Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Base – awarded to a recent outstanding research contribution that has made a significant impact in the field of environmental peacebuilding

  • 2024: Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao, Kent State University (United States)
  • 2022: Tobias Ide, Murdoch University (Australia/Germany) and McKenzie Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (United States)
  • 2019 (granted as the Environmental Peacebuilding Research Award): Alexandre Roulin, Mansour Abu Rashid, Baruch Spiegel, Motti Charter, Amélie N. Driess, and Yossi Leshem, “‘Nature Knows No Boundaries’: The Role of Nature Conservation in Peacebuilding,” Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2017).

Award for Impactful Practice in Environmental Peacebuilding – recognizes exceptional practical work of an individual or organization involved in environmental peacebuilding.

  • 2024: Global Witness
  • 2022: David Jensen, United Nations Environment Programme (Switzerland/Canada)
  • 2019: Gloria Amparo Rodríguez, Universidad del Rosario School of Law and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Colombia)

Award for Service – recognizes valuable contributions of individuals to the mission and activities of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association.

  • 2024: Joel Young, Environmental Peacebuilding Association (United States)

Environmental Peacebuilding Lifetime Achievement Award – honors significant contributions to the field of environmental peacebuilding across a lifetime of work and research.

  • 2024: Sherri Goodman, Wilson Center (United States)
  • 2019: Mark Halle, International Institute for Sustainable Development (Switzerland)

Al-Moumin Award for Thought Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding – recognizes leading thinkers who have shaped the field of environmental peacebuilding (co-sponsored by EnPAx, American University’s School of International Service, UN Environment, and the Environmental Law Institute).

  • 2025: Nada Majdalani, EcoPeace Middle East (Palestine); Yana Abu Taleb, EcoPeace Middle East (Jordan); Gidon Bromberg, EcoPeace Middle East (Israel); and Tareq Abu Hamed, the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (Israel).
  • 2023: Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) (United Kingdom) and PAX Environment, Peace, and Security Project (Netherlands)
  • 2021: Patricia Gualinga, Kichwa First People of Sarayaku (Ecuador)
  • 2019: Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California, Berkeley (United States)
  • 2018: Ken Conca, American University (United States) and Geoff Dabelko, Ohio University (United States)
  • 2017: Ambassador Marie Jacobsson, International Law Commission (Sweden)
  • 2015: Liz Alden Wily (Kenya)
  • 2014: Jon Barnett, University of Melbourne (Australia)
  • 2013: Michael L. Ross, University of California Los Angeles (United States)