Amazonian Landscapes of Environment, Peace, and Security
Date & Time
Jun 18, 2026 |
11.00
- 12.30
Participants
Chair: Miguel Alberto Londoño Gómez, Global Green Growth Institute (Colombia)
Maria Juliana Rubiano, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (United States)
Alice Taberner, N/A (Brazil)
Beth Sua Carvajal, WWF CO (Colombia)
This panel explores the intersections of environmental governance, security, and peacebuilding in the Amazon, focusing on how diverse actors, economies, and knowledge systems shape socio-environmental outcomes in contexts of conflict and post-conflict peacebuilding. It brings together perspectives that challenge conventional understandings of security and development by highlighting plural worldviews, competing priorities, and the lived realities of communities navigating environmental change. The panel examines how governance frameworks, both formal and informal, interact with legal, illegal, and illicit economies, influencing patterns of environmental degradation, violence, and cooperation. Emphasizing locally grounded approaches and participatory processes, it considers how environmental protection can be reframed as a pathway toward justice, rights, and sustainable peace. Collectively, the presentations offer insights into the complexities of environmental peacebuilding in the Amazon and the need for more inclusive, context-sensitive strategies moving forward.
Understanding Perspectives of Environmental Security in the Brazilian Amazon
Alice Taberner, Universidade de São Paulo and King's College (Italy/Brazil)
From Illegality to Rights: Environmental Governance and Peacebuilding in the Colombian Amazon
Beth Sua Carvajal, WWF Colombia (Colombia)
Coca, Cattle, and the Making of Post-Conflict Landscapes in the Colombian Amazon
Maria Juliana Rubiano, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (United States)