Building Environmental Peace

The UN Environment Programme, and Knowledge Creation for Environmental Peacebuilding

authored by

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.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Political Science

Type

Article

Journal

Global Environmental Politics

Volume

21

Pages

147-167

No. of pages

21

ISSN

1526-3800

Publication date

01.08.2021

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Political Science and International Relations

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00617 (Access: Closed)