A Difficult, but Hopeful Moment for Justice and Environmental Peacebuilding

Jul 6, 2026
International Center for Transitional Justice
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The relationship between violent conflict and the environment has been increasingly recognized in the past few decades. Practitioners, advocates, and scholars have underscored both the damage that war and repression can cause to ecological systems and the ways in which resource scarcity can act as a driver of conflict. In the current global context, however, the outlook for effectively incorporating environmental issues into peacebuilding efforts may seem dire.