Activities

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (also known as EnPAx®) pursues its mission of fostering knowledge development and exchange, building capacity and awareness and strengthening relationships between scholars, practitioners, and decision makers through an integrated series of activities:

Interest Groups foster connections, networking, and knowledge exchange. Membership in the Interest Groups is open to all members of the Association. Current Interest Groups include:

  • Africa Interest Group
  • Big Data and Frontier Technologies Interest Group
  • Climate Change, Disasters, & Resilience Interest Group
  • Education Interest Group
  • Forest Interest Group
  • Gender Interest Group
  • Law Interest Group
  • Monitoring & Evaluation Interest Group
  • Urban Interest Group
  • Water Interest Group
  • Young Professionals Interest Group

Conferences, webinars, panels, and other events, including: 

  • Biennial International Conferences on Environmental Peacebuilding (including the First Conference (Irvine, CA; 2019), Second Conference (Geneva, Switzerland; 2022), Third Conference (The Hague, Netherlands; 2024), the Fourth Conference (Ottawa, Canada; 2026), and the Fifth Conference (Nairobi, Kenya; 2028)
  • Thematic Symposia (focusing on Colombia (2021), the Water-Energy-Peace Nexus (2025), and Environmental Peacebuilding in Mountainous Regions (2027)) 
  • Association webinars (open to all, but archived recordings available only to members)

In addition, EnPAx® collects, generates, and shares knowledge on environment, conflict, and peace for the broader public through:

  • Environment & Security, the only peer-reviewed journal focusing on the intersection of environment, conflict and peace (free to EnPAx members, who log in and join from the link at the bottom of this page)
  • Environmental Peacebuilding Update (biweekly) and the Newsletter on Gender, Natural Resource, Climate, and Peace (monthly)
  • A Glossary of Terms on Environmental Peacebuilding (under development)
  • Massive open online course (MOOC) on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace
  • Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform (www.environmentalpeacebuilding.org)
  • Environmental Peacebuilding Community of Practice (Google Group, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook; > 4400 people)
  • Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding

The Association is developing other activities.