Creative Practice and Restorative Justice: Environmental Peacebuilding in Dialogue

Jul 9, 2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
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How do landscapes remember violence? What remains after conflict in the material world - in infrastructure, objects, environments, and collective memory? And what role can artistic practice play in confronting difficult histories and imagining more equitable futures? This interdisciplinary conversation brings together perspectives from artistic practice, environmental peacebuilding, and restorative justice to explore the environmental and material legacies of conflict. Centering the work of artist and ethnographic researcher Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida and his recent exhibition Ya no son pilares (They Are No Longer Pillars), the discussion examines how landscapes and built environments can function as repositories of memory, carrying traces of political violence long after formal transitions have occurred. Drawing on experiences and research from across Latin America and Europe, panelists will consider how violence becomes embedded in places and infrastructures, how unequal power relations persist after conflict, and what restorative approaches to memory, coexistence, and repair might look like in practice. Together, they will explore the possibilities and limitations of artistic and cultural work in addressing environmental harm, historical injustice, and unresolved histories. 

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Featured Speakers:

Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida is an artist and ethnographic researcher whose work examines infrastructures of violence, labor history, material memory, and post-dictatorship landscapes in Chile.

Natalia Jiménez Galindo is an environmental peacebuilding consultant and Co-Chair of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association's Gender Interest Group. Her work focuses on the intersections of gender, environment, peace, land governance, and extractive industries across Latin America.

Additional Speaker (TBC)

Moderated by Madeleine Loll, Gender Administrator at the Environmental Peacebuilding Association.