Call for Pitches to Forthcoming New Security Beat Series: COVID-19 and Environmental Peacebuilding

Oct 6, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Wilson Center’s Environmental Change & Security Program

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is collaborating with the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change & Security Program (ECSP) to produce a New Security Beat blog series on the implications of COVID-19 for the field of environmental peacebuilding. Through interviews/Q&As, storytelling from the ground, and the elevation of cutting-edge research, the series aims to: 

  • Identify current challenges facing the field of environmental peacebuilding because of COVID-19 across thematic areas and geographies.
  • Highlight innovations in environmental peacebuilding that are emerging in response to COVID-19 (i.e. tools, methodologies, approaches, best practices).
  • Anticipate how COVID-19 will impact the future of environmental peacebuilding.
 We invite EnPax members, and members of the broader environmental peacebuilding community, to submit a 150-200 word pitch for an article to be published as part of the series (deadline for pitches is October 30, 2020). Upon review of the submissions, individuals may then be invited to submit a full article (1,000-1,500 words). Guidelines for pitch submissions: 
  • 150-200 words
  • Pitches should clearly define the key takeaways/thesis of the article
  • Article format (ie., Q&A with an expert, story from the ground, research and analysis)
  • Deadline for pitches – October 30, 2020
  • Pitches should be sent via email to lauren.risi@wilsoncenter.org
 If invited to submit a full article, authors will be provided with further guidelines. EnPAx and ECSP will use the insights shared in the series to inform a policy report or a “typology of impact and innovation” (approx. 2 pages) to chart a course forward for environmental peacebuilding as the world both responds to, and recovers from, COVID-19. Accompanying this report will be an infographic for dissemination (e.g. key recommendations, short/long-term trends, impacts across thematic areas, other temporal/scalar issues).