Becca Farnum

Queen Mary University of London
United Kingdom

Rebecca L Farnum is an environmental peacebuilding educator working at the intersections of environmental activism, conflict resolution, and capacity-building, leveraging academia for public service and policy impact. Her teaching explores collective action in response to environmental racism; inclusive urban planning to support global climate justice; and the impact of climate change on Land relations in the Arctic Circle.

Becca's PhD in Geography from King’s College London partnered with three activist groups in the Middle East and North Africa to explore discourses of environmental conflict, cooperation, and diplomacy. She is particularly interested in the boundaries of 'environmental peacebuilding' as a field, questioning issues of spatial and temporal scale as well as mainstream assumptions of 'conflict' contexts. Becca also holds an LLM in International Law focused on environmental and human rights law from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Water Security and International Development from the University of East Anglia.