Feminist Courage for Environmental Peace

Mar 30, 2022 | Ilse Wermink, Christina Vetter, and Brittany Roser
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Women, girls, and gender minorities are uniquely and disproportionately affected by the damaging environmental impacts of conflict, while lacking and demanding access to shape the necessary decision-making in environmental governance and peacebuilding structures. Nonetheless, women activists are fashioning innovative ways to turn around the negative impacts of conflict linked-environmental damage and climate risks impacting their communities, in effect preventing future conflict.  

On 15 March 2022, during the Gendered Environmental Impacts of Conflict virtual panel on the margins of the 66^th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), leading women activists and practitioners from Syria, South Sudan, Iraq, and Colombia shared powerful insights on the nexus of conflict, the environment, and gender.