Climate Change and Environmental Peacebuilding

Date & Time
Jun 19, 2026 | 11.00 - 12.30

Location
CRX 442

Participants
Chair: Tom Deligiannis (Canada)
Joseph Siegel, Haub School of Law at Pace University (United States)
Elsa Barron, Notre Dame University (United States)
Elisabeth Gilmore, Carleton University (Canada)
Angela R. Robinson, University of California, Irvine (United States)
Mohammed W. Bah, University of California, Irvine (Liberia/United States)

As climate change intensifies environmental stress, displacement, and resource competition, environmental peacebuilding offers frameworks for understanding and responding to emerging challenges. This session explores how climate-related risks intersect with governance, conflict, and cooperation across diverse contexts. Presentations examine the role of rebel governance in climate adaptation efforts within conflict-affected areas, the implications of climate-induced loss and damage for environmental peacebuilding theory and practice, and the links between climate vulnerability, human trafficking, and community-led documentation among displaced populations. Additional contributions investigate climate-driven migration and land-use conflicts in rural Liberia and assess the potential of dispute resolution mechanisms to support transboundary climate adaptation. Together, these papers highlight both the risks climate change poses to peace and stability and the opportunities for innovative governance, local agency, and cooperation to strengthen resilience and foster more sustainable pathways to peace.

Rebel Environmental Governance: Climate Adaptation, Authority, and Peacebuilding in Conflict-Affected Contexts

Elisabeth Gilmore, Carleton University (Canada)

Conceptualizing Environmental Peacebuilding’s Response to Climate Change-Induced Loss and Damage

Elsa Barron, Notre Dame University (United States)

Through Their Lens: Climate Change, Human Trafficking, and Community-Driven Documentation in Bidibidi Refugee Camp, the Karamoja, and Kampala

Angela R. Robinson, University of California, Irvine (United States)

Climate-Driven Migration and Land Use Conflicts in Rural Liberia: Evidence from Grand Gedeh County

Mohammed W Bah, University of California, Irvine (Liberia/United States)

Dispute Resolution as a Tool for Transboundary Adaptation

Joseph Siegel, Haub School of Law at Pace University (United States)