Climate Peacebuilding: A Reset for Major Power Relations?
Publisher: Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
Author(s): Mihaela Papa
Date: 2023
Topics: Climate Change, Cooperation, Governance, Peace Agreements
The international community has been facing the threat of nuclear war and, up to this point, has failed to meet universally embraced climate and sustainability goals. As major powers drift toward bloc politics, is it possible to reset these relations to accelerate climate action? Such a reset-focused “climate peacebuilding” agenda needs to create diplomatic opportunities for conflict transformation to connect separate climate, development, and security initiatives around mutually supportive objectives.