Stakeholders and Environmental Peacebuilding: Communities, Corporations, and Researchers

Date & Time
Jun 19, 2026 | 9.00 - 10.30

Location
CRX 309

Participants
Chair: Okechukwu Daniel Ogbonnaya, Global Green Growth Institute (Nigeria/Ethiopia)
Nkasi Wodu, University of Massachusetts Boston (Nigeria)
Dominique Schmid, University of Bern (Switzerland)
Bilal Aslam, School of Integrated Social Sciences, The University of Lahore (Pakistan)
Renata Fontoura, University of Montreal (Brazil/Portugal) (IN FRENCH)

Environmental peacebuilding is shaped by the diverse actors who influence, experience, and interpret the relationships between environmental governance, conflict, and peace. This session explores the roles of corporations, local communities, scholars, and practitioners in advancing or complicating environmental peacebuilding efforts across different contexts. Drawing on cases from Nigeria, Peru, Kenya, Thailand, Pakistan, India, and beyond, the presentations examine corporate authority in resource-related conflicts, local perceptions of benefit-sharing mechanisms in conservation and carbon projects, scholarly understandings of environmental peacebuilding across national contexts, and the everyday reflexive practices through which individuals resist and reshape dominant narratives and interventions. Together, these contributions will examine stakeholder perspectives, power relations, and knowledge production in environmental peacebuilding. The session invites critical discussion on whose voices are heard, whose interests are served, and how more inclusive and equitable approaches to peacebuilding can be fostered.

When Peace Means Business: Corporate Authority and Environmental Conflict in Nigeria's Niger Delta

Nkasiobu Wodu, University of Massachusetts Boston (United States)

Meaningful Benefits or Divisive Outcomes? Local Perspectives from Peru, Kenya, and Thailand on Benefit Sharing in PES and Nature-Based Carbon Projects

Dominique Schmid, University of Bern (Switzerland)

Perceptions of Environmental Peacebuilding among Pakistani and Indian Scholars

Bilal Aslam, School of Integrated Social Sciences, University of Lahore (Pakistan)

Everyday Acts of Resistance: Reflexive Practices in Environmental Peacebuilding (IN FRENCH)

Renata Fontoura, University of Montreal (Brazil/Portugal)