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Environmental Pathways to Peacemaking

Explore the potential of utilizing environmental issues as a strategic tool for peacemaking and conflict resolution. This proposal examines various pathways, from state-to-state cooperation to civil society dialogues, to transform insecurities and foster peaceful relations. Discover how the environment can serve as a lifeline, an essential ingredient to peace agreements, and a confidence builder in post-conflict scenarios. Uncover the challenges and opportunities of environmental peacemaking and gain insights into effective strategies.

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Environmental Pathways to Peacemaking

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  1. Environmental Pathways to Peacemaking Geoff Dabelko Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

  2. Propose turning the environment and conflict thesis on its head • Can we exploit environmental problems strategically as part of broader peacemaking efforts?

  3. Environmental Pathways to Peace? • Can we utilize the logic of environmental interdependence to talk across lines of tension? • State to state • Civil society to civil society • Use cooperative efforts and dialogue to manage environmental resources as a way to transform insecurities and create more peaceful relations between parties in dispute • Help overcome political tensions through interaction, confidence building, and technical cooperation

  4. Environmental Pathways Along the Conflict Continuum • Environment as conflict prevention • Environment as lifeline in times of conflict • Environment as essential ingredient to peace agreement • Environment as post-conflict trust builder

  5. Environmental Cooperation as Conflict Prevention

  6. Nile Basin Initiative

  7. 1,700 State-to-State Water Interactions in Transboundary Basins, 1946-1999 Source: Adapted from Wolf et al. 2003 in Water Policy

  8. Environment as Lifeline in Times of Conflict

  9. Lifeline in times of conflict and tension • Arctic Military Environment Cooperation (AMEC) • Picnic Table Talks • Environmental management - HELCOM

  10. Environmental Engagement to Gain New Strategic Partners • CENTCOM in Central Asia • US Military-Military bilaterals with Vietnam, India, Thailand, Central American countries

  11. Environment as Essential Ingredient to Achieving Peace

  12. Peru – Ecuador border Cordillera del Condor Transboundary Protected Area

  13. Water didn’t get you into this mess but… • Palestine-Israel • India-Pakistan

  14. Environment as Post-Conflict Confidence Builder

  15. Peace Parks

  16. UNEP Post-Conflict Assessment Unit

  17. Some Key Challenges • Transparency and participation – finding the right mix and the right time • Doing environmental peacemaking without calling it environmental peacemaking or environmental security • Integrating development • Variable chances of success along conflict continuum

  18. Some Key Challenges • Overcoming institutional barriers to cooperation among agencies • Improving donor coordination and duration of commitment • Size matters for donors and recipients • Shortage of capable facilitators • Staying behind the scenes – U.S. can’t always be out front • How to demonstrate success if success is a null case

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