Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Gendered Approaches to Environmental Peacebuilding

Date & Time
Jun 9, 2026 | 9.00 - 10.30

Link
https://us04web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g2lx1R6cT7WoTut28O5PJw

Participants
Chair: Madeleine Loll, Environmental Peacebuilding Association (United States)
Atieh Khatibi, ClimLaw Center, Univerityof Graz (Iran)
Francesca Fassbender, Tel Aviv University (Germany)
Alma Mirvic, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Ambreen Ben-Shmuel (Israel)
Nnaemeka Phil Eke-okocha, University of Massachusetts Boston (United States)
Ambreen Ben-Shmuel, University of Michigan (Israel)

Gender inequality presents numerous challenges in environmental peacebuilding, as social structures, governance regimes, gendered logics, and natural resource pressures compound to generate disproportionate impacts for women across diverse contexts. In Iran, the institutional lack of gender-responsive mechanisms for resolving climate change conflicts reduces women’s role in peacebuilding, despite the central role they play in environmental stewardship. More broadly, gendered logics contribute to the execution and normalization of environmental warfare, highlighting the need to uncover the social structures that enable such destruction and to integrate gender-sensitive approaches into conflict resolution. Climate change impacts such as drought and land degradation further intensify resource competition and insecurity, which, compounded by power imbalances and governance failures, sustain gendered insecurities. In some contexts, these governance systems are weaponized to target activists, particularly women environmental defenders. This panel explores a core challenge: the difficulty of translating institutionalized gender frameworks from peacebuilding into environmental domains that prioritize technical over social approaches, pointing to the need for stronger institutionalization of gender-responsive frameworks within environmental peacebuilding.

Drying Wetlands, Silenced Voices: Climate Conflict and Women’s Rights in Wetland Ecosystems in Iran; Gaps and Opportunities Using the DPSIR Model

Atieh Khatibi, University of Graz (Iran)

Gendered Approaches to Environmental Peacebuilding

Drying Wetlands, Silenced Voices: Climate Conflict and Women’s Rights in Wetland Ecosystems in Iran; Gaps and Opportunities Using the DPSIR Model

Unveiling Gendered Mechanisms in Environmental Warfare: Towards an Integrated Feminist Framework

Gendered Impacts of SLAPP Suits: Women Environmental Defenders in Bosnia and Herzegovina

When Oppression Meets Vulnerability: The Gendered Dimensions of Climate-Induced Conflict

What Counts as Environmental Work? How Gender Regimes Shape Organizational Practice