A Legal Framework for Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]
Publisher: Conflict and Environment Observatory
Author(s): Marja Lehto, Carl Bruch, Daniella Dam-de Jong, Elaine Hsiao, Stavros Pantazapoulos, Richard Pearshouse, Susan Power, and Doug Weir
Date: 2020
Topics: Conflict Prevention, Extractive Resources, Governance, Renewable Resources
This film, created for Geneva Peace Week 2020, introduces the legal principles on the Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts that are being developed by the UN's International Law Commission, and considers both how they could help support environmental peacebuilding, and be implemented.
Through interviews with leading experts, it also examines the principles’ relevance for regulating the extractives industry, for protecting environmental human rights in conflict and during occupations, and for supporting peacebuilding through biodiversity conservation.
Featuring:
Amb Dr Marja Lehto, International Law Commission Special Rapporteur on the Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts.
Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute
Prof Daniëlla Dam-de Jong, Leiden University
Dr Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao, University of Sheffield
Dr Stavros Pantazopoulos, Conflict and Environment Observatory
Richard Pearshouse, Amnesty International
Dr Susan Power, Al Haq
Doug Weir, Conflict and Environment Observatory