Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Events

Webinar on Accountability for Conflict-Related Environmental Harm (A "Path to The Hague" Event)

Jul 5, 2023 | EnPAx Law Interest Group and IUCN-WCEL Environmental Security and Conflict Law Specialist Group
online

This Path to The Hague event forms the second occurrence of the webinar series focusing on environmental protection in relation to armed conflict, which is…

Elevating Women’s Leadership for Effective Transboundary Water Cooperation

Jun 20, 2023 | USIP
Washington, DC

Research shows that including women in peace processes makes agreements more durable and leads to lower instances of conflict. Despite this, less than 10 percent…

Frontiers: Global Opportunities for Strengthening Resource Security

Jun 8, 2023 | USAID
Washington, DC and online

Climate change is exacerbating competition over natural resources worldwide, leading to shifting and increased conflict. In the coming decades, global trends such as urbanization, displacement,…

Book Launch: International Law and Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons

Jun 7, 2023 | Grant Dawson
online

International Law and Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons contains a systematic conceptual analysis of the international legal frameworks governing the remediation of sea-dumped chemical weapons. Where deficiencies…

Demilitarisation for Decarbonisation & Climate Finance for the GST– & Why It’s a Feminist Issue

Jun 7, 2023 | Environmental Law Institute, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Transnational Institute
Bonn, Germany

Why is militarisation one of the key obstacles to mitigating the climate crisis? Panelists will make the case for disarmament and demilitarisation in the GST.…

3rd Annual Conference on Environmental Conflict and Cooperation (CECC)

Jun 1, 2023 - Jun 2, 2023 | Helen Diller Institute, UC Berkeley Law School
Berkeley, California and online

Environmental scholars, professionals, and activists are invited to participate in the 3rd Annual International Conference on Environmental Conflict and Cooperation (CECC), June 1-2 ,2023, at…

Protecting the Environment is Protecting Civilians: Humanitarian Effects of Conflict-Related Damage to the Environment and Civilian Infrastructure

May 25, 2023 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association, IOM, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Vietnam to the United Nations, UNMAS, Swiss Confederation, Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations, and PAX
New York, NY

A panel of high-level speakers will explore the environment, climate, and conflict nexus, and the detrimental impacts conflicts have on civilians and the environment they…

Climate adaptation, transboundary water management, and political stability in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities for EU-Levant collaboration on sustainable development and regional stability

May 25, 2023 - May 26, 2023 | Cascades
Istanbul Turkey

The effects of climate change on water supply, food security, migration, and political stability are becoming evident in the Middle East. The sustainable management of…

Climate Adaptation, Transboundary Water Management, and Political Stability in the Middle East

May 25, 2023 - May 26, 2023 | CASCADES
Istanbul, Turkey

The effects of climate change on water supply, food security, migration, and political stability are becoming evident in the Middle East. The sustainable management of…

Extended Dialogue on Forests, Livelihoods and Peace: The Role of the Donor

May 24, 2023 | AHT GROUP and EnPAx Forest Interest Group
Online

The Forest Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is holding bi-monthly meetings for the Extended Dialogue on Forests, Livelihoods and Peace. The discussion is…

ISDP-KWDI International Day for Women, Peace, and Disarmament Webinar

May 24, 2023 | Institute for Security & Development Policy
Online

UNSCR 1325, Two Decades and One Pandemic Later: Comparing Experiences of Sweden and South Korea

In the year 2000, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approved Resolution…

Hearing on Gender Aspects of Defence, Peace and Security

May 24, 2023 | European Parliament
European Parliament, room SPAAK 1A002

The hearing will focus on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls. Distinguished speakers include Ms Stella Ronner-Grubačić, EU Ambassador for Gender and…

Extended Dialogue on Forests, Livelihoods and Peace: The Role of the Donor (A "Path to The Hague" Event)

May 24, 2023 | AHT GROUP and EnPAx Forest Interest Group
online

The Forest Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is holding bi-monthly meetings for the Extended Dialogue on Forests, Livelihoods and Peace. The discussion is…

Launch of the CGIAR Climate Security Observatory

May 23, 2023 - May 23, 2023 | Geneva Center for Security Policy
Geneva, Switzerland and online

Climate is linked to conflict, acts as a multiplier and exacerbates the risk of crisis and instability. Although this is widely recognized in the science-policy…

Nature Conservation and Conflicts in Ukraine: Determining War Damages to Nature Reserves in Ukraine

May 22, 2023 | Maria Fedoruk, João Henrique Paulino Pires Eustachio, and Tetiana Lisowska, HAW Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany and online

You are hereby invited to attend a seminar that presents the midterm results of the project “Nature Conservation and Conflict in Ukraine: Determining War Damages…

Environmental Protection from Wartime Destruction: Exploring the Issues and Legal Frameworks

May 18, 2023 | American Red Cross
online

The natural environment has long been disregarded as a victim of war. Recently, however, there has been momentum to increase environmental protection in armed conflict,…

The Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine Decolonizing and Deterritorializing the Study of Gender and Sexuality in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia

May 18, 2023 | Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Columbia University

The ASN World Convention, the largest international and inter-disciplinary scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on a wide range of topics related to nationalism,…

EnPAx Spotlight: McKenzie F. Johnson

May 17, 2023 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
online

Our second EnPAx Spotlight event, featuring a distinguished guest speaker, McKenzie F. Johnson, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place…

Women building peace, women keeping peace

May 16, 2023 | Friends of Europe
Brussels

The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has become a critical aspect of the international community’s efforts to promote global peace and security. As the world…

Water: A Driver for Peace and Conflict

May 11, 2023 | Youth Peace Initiative and Cirus Student Association
The Hague, Netherlands

Water is one of the most scarce natural resources and plays an increasingly significant role in social stability, economic development, and the general livelihood of…

Water: A Driver for Peace and Conflict (A "Path to The Hague" Event)

May 11, 2023 | Youth Peace Initiative and Cirus Student Associatoin
The Hague, Netherlands

Water is one of the most scarce natural resources and plays an increasingly significant role in social stability, economic development, and the general livelihood of…

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP - PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN ARMED CONFLICTS

May 4, 2023 - May 4, 2023 | Finnish Institute in Athens
16 Zitrou street, Athens Greece

The Toxic Crimes Project (Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki), the Athens Public International Law Center (Athens PIL) Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of…

New Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Environmental Peacebuilding

May 4, 2023 | Environmental Law Institute, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, and Alliance for Peacebuilding
online

This session highlights two resources to help practitioners navigate the particular set of challenges faced when performing monitoring and evaluation at the intersection of environment, conflict,…

Agrarian Questions of Gendered Labour in Global South Development Trajectories

May 4, 2023 | Oxford Department of International Development
Queen Elizabeth House 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB

For the ODS Annual Lecture 2023, Professor Lyn Ossome examines concerns around the structures, trajectories and gendered outcomes of capitalist development in the agrarian south, with the…

Climate Displacement in the Shadow of War: Feminist Refugee Perspectives on Hydro-disaster

May 4, 2023 | UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender
3335 Dwinelle Hall

Please join us for the fourth lecture in our Spring 2023 series “Moving Out of Harm’s Way: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Climate-related Mobilities.”

“Climate-related migration,”…

Addressing the Converging Risks of Climate, Insecurity, and Migration in Central America

Apr 28, 2023 - Apr 28, 2023 | Wilson Center
Washington, DC and online

Latin America and the Caribbean is the second most disaster-prone region in the world. In the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras…

COP27 Presidency Initiative: Climate Response for Sustaining Peace (CRSP) Briefing Event - Scaling Up Action on the Adaptation and Peacebuilding Nexus

Apr 25, 2023 - Apr 25, 2023 | COP27 Presidency Initiative
Zoom

Please save-the-date for our upcoming virtual event, on behalf of the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations, the Cairo International Center for Conflict…