Advancing Environmental Peacebuilding through Ecocentric and Indigenous Conceptualizations

Date & Time
Jun 18, 2026 | 14.00 - 15.30

Participants
Chair: Karen Hulme, University of Essex (United Kingdom)
Juliana Krohn, University of Graz (Austria)
Stephanie Martinez, University of California, Irvine (United States)
Lena Dedyukina, University of Ottawa (Canada)

Recognizing the gaps that persist between theoretical environmental peacebuilding frameworks and the various lived experiences and contexts they address, the presentations featured in this panel highlight tools that when integrated generate a more comprehensive and inclusive approach to environmental peacebuilding. The panel explores how emerging frameworks—including as the EnviPeace relational framework, integration of Rights of Nature Movement with environmental peacebuilding, and incorporating Indigenous conceptions of “peace with nature” into formalized governance structures—can transform biodiversity protection, enhance context-sensitive and community-based solutions, and expand environmental peacebuilding toward systems grounded in reciprocity, responsibility, and coexistence. Together, these perspectives provide a robust foundation for bridging theory and practice, offering pathways to integrate ecocentric and Indigenous approaches into more transformative and effective environmental peacebuilding strategies.

Relational Peace and More-Than-Human Agency: Rethinking Environmental Peacebuilding Guidelines and Training through the Transdisciplinary Project EnviPeace

Juliana Krohn, University of Graz and Austrian Center for Peace (Austria)
Astrid Holzinger, Austrian Center for Peace (Austria)

What Can Environmental Peacebuilding Learn from the Rights of Nature Movement?

Stephanie Martinez, University of California-Irvine (United States)

What Does it Mean to be in Peace with Nature? Indigenous Relational Theory and Environmental Peacebuilding

Lena Dedyukina, University of Ottawa (Canada)