MOOCs
As part of its mission to build capacity and awareness on environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association has partnered in the development of massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The Association's showcase MOOC is "Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace." That website is currently being renovated. In the meantime, you may find the links to the MOOC's lectures below. If you are interested in taking the MOOC (self-paced), please sign up here.
EnPAx has also supported the development of an online course on "Conflict-Sensitive Conservation," which will be launched in October 2025 at the World Conservation Congress. Stay tuned for more information!
Following are the links to the lectures for "Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace":
1.5 Case Study: Aynak, Afghanistan
2.2 Drivers of Violent Conflict
2.3 Case Study: Diamonds in Sierra Leone
2.4 Climate Stress, Conflict, & Peacebuilding
2.5 Case Study: Climate Change and the Arab Spring
2.7 Transparency and Access to Information
2.9 Conflict Pathways & Determinants - Extractives
2.11 Case Study: Land in Sierra Leone
3.2 Importance of Natural Resources
3.3 Environmental Impacts of Armed Conflict
3.4 Breakdown of Environmental Governance
3.5 Conflict Resources and Pillage
3.6 Case Study: Blood Chocolate in Cote D'Ivoire
3.9 Implementing International Law
3.10 UN Security Council Tools
3.11 Case Study: Diamonds & Timber in Liberia
4.3 Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
4.7 Case Study: Water in the Jordan River
4.8 Rebuilding Environmental Governance
4.10 Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue
4.11 Spatial Planning & Recovery
4.12 Mitigating Impacts of Reconstruction
4.14 Case Study: Water Management in Wadi El Ku