Negotiating Conservation in the Midst of Armed Conflict

Date & Time
Jun 18, 2026 | 16.00 - 17.30

Participants
Chair: Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao, Kent State University / IUCN CEESP Theme on Environment and Peace (United States)
Alison Harley, WWF International
Charles Karangwa, IUCN (Switzerland)
Eoghan Darbyshire, Conflict and Environment Observatory (United Kingdom)

This roundtable brings together a group of diverse experts to explore different ways that state and non-state actors engage in various forms of cooperation or negotiated co-existence in order to sustain conservation activities, conduct research (including documentation of ecocrimes and randomized control trials), maintain traditional livelihoods, and to provide conservation benefits to local communities. Natsuno Shinagawa: Eastern DRC examples of sustaining conservation and natural resource management with local community engagement Eoghan Darbyshire: Assessing conflict-linked damage to protected areas in Ukraine Adrian Garside: South Sudan examples of sustaining conservation management during civil war, amidst armed group recruitment and changing territorial control Adal Rhoubeid: Niger examples of maintaining traditional livelihoods to build resilience to both armed group recruitment and climate change