Africa
The Africa Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® assembles academics, practitioners, and decision makers interested in local, national, regional, or international issues concerning the relationship between natural resources, the environment, conflict, and peacebuilding in Africa. In alignment with the Association's purpose, the Africa Interest Group is multidisciplinary and nonpolitical in nature. Its operations are limited to educational and scientific goals as defined in the Mission, Purpose, and Actions.
- The Africa Interest Group's Mission (overall goal) is to foster environmental security and sustainable peace (environmental peacebuilding) in Africa. The Group aims to promote conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution, and recovery through sustainable and equitable management of natural resources and environments in Africa.
- The Group's Purpose (specific goals) consists of facilitating exchanges of information and dialogue; identifying concerns; stimulating research and awareness; promoting capacity building; and disseminating and sharing information and knowledge on environmental peacebuilding in Africa.
- The Group's Actions (practical goals) refer to its activities and entail networking and connecting with Association members and non-members; organizing events; creating and maintaining an online knowledge platform with information on scholars, publications, and programs that involve environmental peacebuilding; and preparing technical papers and other publications about environmental peacebuilding in Africa.
The Group is open to all Association members interested in environmental peacebuilding in Africa. The Chair of the Africa Interest Group is Octavio Carlos Peso Goio.