Parks for Peace
Publisher: IUCN WCPA
Date: 1997
Topics: Cooperation, Governance, Land
IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas outlines the Declaration of Principles for peace parks, agreed upon during a conference convened to discuss cases of melding environmental conservation with peacebuilding efforts through transboundary conservation. The Declaration contains messages for national governments and for the international community. It places protected areas firmly in the context of peacemaking and building international collaboration between States. It points towards some considerable success stories but it also identifies the great need for further work in this area.