Building Environmental Peace

The UN Environment Programme, and Knowledge Creation for Environmental Peacebuilding

verfasst von

Natalia Dalmer

Abstract

Since the aftermath of the 1999 Kosovo Conflict, UNEP has addressed the environmental dimension of insecurities and turned to peacebuilding. This has been risky because it strays close to conflict prevention, identification, or resolution, which lie outside of UNEP’s mandate. I argue that this change in approach results from knowledge creation. UNEP’s experiences about the linkage between environmental degradation and insecurity in postconflict settings motivated its search for opportunities that would legitimize its contribution to postconflict peacebuilding. Seizing on the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture, UNEP established ECP and, through the program, aimed to develop environmental peacebuilding as a concern through three distinct but interrelated knowledge-building practices: knowledge collection, strategic interpretation, and implementation.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Global Environmental Politics

Band

21

Seiten

147-167

Anzahl der Seiten

21

ISSN

1526-3800

Publikationsdatum

01.08.2021

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Globaler Wandel, Erneuerbare Energien, Nachhaltigkeit und Umwelt, Politikwissenschaften und internationale Beziehungen

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 7 – Erschwingliche und saubere Energie

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00617 (Zugang: Geschlossen)