Peacebuilding, Climate Change, and Migration: A Virtual Workshop


Mar 22, 2022 - Mar 24, 2022 | Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
online
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Anthropogenic climate change currently threatens to exacerbate displacement and conflict around the world. Through this workshop, we seek alternative outcomes and approaches to these challenges. The organizers aim to advance scholarship and policy in two ways. First, they will develop a socio-environmental conception of positive peace that centers indigenous perspectives and environmental justice. And second, they will expand understanding of peacebuilding and migration in understudied regions that are highly vulnerable to climate change, including Southeast Asia, South and Central Asia, and Latin America. Registration Link   

Day 1: Conceptualizing Environmental Peacebuilding

Register for March 22, 11:25 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. (ET)

 What do we know about the relationship between peacebuilding, migration, and climate change? How can we develop a socio-environmental conception of positive peace, which entails developing means of peacefully resolving conflict, and which centers Indigenous perspectives and environmental justice? 

Introduction

Rebecca Slayton

Rachel Beatty Riedl

Presenters

Marieme Lo

Päivi Lujala

Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah

Day 2: Expanding the Lens

Register for March 24, 11:25 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. (ET)

The regions that are at greatest risk of climate change impacts—including Latin America, Southeast Asia, and South Asia—have been the subject of a minority of studies. What resources, methods, and approaches can help us better understand the relationship between peacebuilding, climate change, and migration in these understudied regions? How can we achieve environmental justice in these areas?

Introduction

Karim-Aly Kassam

George Wilkes

Presenters

Alpa Shah

Jonathan Padwe

Fábio Zuker

This workshop is organized by Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and funded by the Migrations initiative. Our co-sponsors are the Institute for African Development, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Registration Link