Frontiers in Environmental Peacebuilding

Date & Time
Jun 9, 2026 | 9.00 - 10.30

Link
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lOt3IZOvToitU2GGUgd2hg

Participants
Chair: Octavio Carlos Peso Goio, Environmental Law Institute (United States)
Estelle Manuela Nganlo Keguep, University of Cataluna (Central African Republic)
Aleithia Low (United States)
Dahlia Simangan, Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability, Hiroshima University (Japan)

This panel highlights three distinct innovative approaches to environmental peacebuilding. One presentation discusses how natural resource management in post-conflict reconstruction can promote social cohesion and stability within the peacebuilding process, while also requiring strengthened participatory approaches and increased stakeholder engagement. Another highlights how practices of care for land emphasize the importance of human–ecological relations suggesting an expansion of the meaning of restorative justice by embedding it within struggles for land and sustainable peace. The final presentation recognizes how state-centered transitional justice approaches tend to emphasize legal and institutional mechanisms while overlooking ecological dimensions, advocating for a recentering of nonhuman nature in environmental peacebuilding. These sessions take a critical view of how environmental peacebuilding has been conducted in the past and posit strategies that can strengthen the inclusivity and effectiveness of future environmental peacebuilding initiatives.

Impact of Natural Resources Management in Peacebuilding in the Central African Republic

Estelle Manuela Nganlo Keguep, University of Cataluna (Central African Republic)

More-than-Human Entanglements in Conflict and Peacebuilding: Implications for Justice in Colombia's Transitional Restorative Justice Process

Aleithia Low (United States and Singapore)

Theorizing Ecological Relationality in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Dahlia Simangan, Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability, Hiroshima University (Japan)