EnPAx Seeking People Interested in Participating in a Transitional Justice Interest Group

Oct 16, 2023 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is seeking people who would be interested in joining a Transitional Justice focused Interest Group. As a field of practice transitional justice, has tremendously grown and enhanced its approaches in attempting to deal with the past atrocities in societies that are seeking to transition from war, or from a period of large scale atrocities to peace and stability

Despite this developments, transitional justice has rarely focused on the environment and natural resources as deserving of consideration in its diverse pillars of: truth telling, justice, reparations, guarantees of non-recurrence, memory and memorialization. Though, reality has shown that environment and natural resources “can become a root cause of the conflict, a means of sustaining the conflict, a beneficiary of the dynamics of the conflict or above all a victim of the conflict”.

As of 2023, various transitional justice processes are underway. It is an opportune time for the thematic area of environment and natural resources to be considered within the larger transitional justice framework, planning and implementation processes.

Thus, the Transitional Justice Interest Group seeks to enrich the various transitional justice forums with an environmental peacebuilding perspective.  

The Transitional Justice Interest Group activities will initially center on networking, exchange of ideas, research and development of opinions or briefs. It will further seek to provide focused opinions to ongoing processes in various regions to enrich the processes from an environmental peacebuilding perspective. 

The Transitional Justice Interest Group (TJ-IG) is open to all EnPAx members who are interested in the field.  This Interest Group recognizes that transitional justice is a field that brings on board diverse professions and actors like: academicians, forensic scientists, doctors, social scientists, lawyers and other legal practitioners, environmentalists, anthropologists, counsellors, mediators, psychologists, historians, economists, media practitioners, documentation and evidence preservation practitioners, and not forgetting the communities, women, youth, elders, amongst other stakeholders.

As such, EnPAx is providing this forum for interested members, as practitioners and environmental activists to engage and enrich the discussions and the field of transitional justice.   

We ask those who are interested in participating to please email membership@environmentalpeacebuilding.org.