Environmental Peacebuilding Is Resolving Conflicts Caused by Climate Change

Nov 16, 2022 | Vartika
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Environmental cooperation is increasingly being utilized to resolve local problems induced by global warming.  Environmental cooperation is increasingly being utilized to resolve local problems induced by global warming. Environmental peacebuilding (EP) advocates argue that the natural environment can bring people together just as much as it can tear them apart: Consider it the upbeat counterpart to climate-related violence.

EP, like other types of peacebuilding, might take decades to prove its usefulness. However, this can be difficult to reconcile with donors and large development organizations, which frequently want well-defined results on impossibly short timelines, are already overstretched, and are frequently wary of greenlighting programs in conflict zones for fear of them being dashed soon after.