Greg, If you are interested in other academic programs where environmental peacebuilding is a focus, I can shamelessly plug three opportunities we have going on at Ohio University in collaboration with International Peace Park Expeditions and Todd Walters. We run study abroad programs in a tri-border mountainous area of the Balkans (Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania), around Waterton-Glacier parks (focus on Native Peoples & justice issues), and in Japan and South Korea (Hiroshima Peace Park & the Korean DMZ) where environmental peacebuilding is the specific focus. These are all open to students from other U.S. universities at in-state rates. Here’s the Balkans program we’re running for a third time this summer that can also connect to the other 2. https://www.ohio.edu/global/goglobal/programs/balkans.cfm
For wider connections to the literature and applied learning opportunities, there are quite a few folks on the GEPED list who have worked on environmental peacebuilding from a scholarly and practitioner perspective. I’d suggest work by GEPED members on this list will give you a rich set of resources: Richard Matthew, Ken Conca, Erika Weinthal, Carl Bruch, Saleem Ali, Jon Barnett, Marc Levy, Stacy VanDeveer, Florian Krampe, Ashok Swain, Simon Dalby, Josh Busby, Neda Zawahri, Shlomi Dinar, and many more whom I’m now unwittingly insulting by not listing here in my pre-caffeinated state. If you widen the lens from peacebuilding to the long-running debates on conflict links or the more recent focus on climate change, the list will include many of these folks but get much longer as well. Many of us will be talking environmental peacebuilding on panels in Atlanta next month at the International Studies Association annual meeting. Listservs and websites from the Environmental Law Institute and the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program are ongoing resources that aggregate and cover many research and policy contributions in this space. For European practitioner takes, track the work of Adelphi Research and Alexander Carius, Dennis Taenzler. Easiest is their Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation Platform which is both a website and a listserv. You can look at the work of International Alert and Mercy Corps for examples of field based NGOs working on it from the development or humanitarian side. Some of the big NGOs like WWF, CI, IUCN are increasingly trying to grapple with how their activities can be part of these solutions. Many local NGOs are doing it in specific places but have wider lessons to share – EcoPeace Friends of the Earth Middle East prominent among them. UNEP’s Conflict and Disaster Branch out of Geneva has a charge that includes these issues as well in post-conflict settings. And count me as one who would love to hear more about what you learn in Namibia if you go. We’d be interested at the Wilson Center to explore the possibility of your sharing your observations in short form on our blog New Security Beat. www.newsecuritybeat.org<http://www.newsecuritybeat.org> Best, Geoff Geoff Dabelko Professor and Director, Environmental Studies Program Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs The Ridges, Bldg 22 Rm 119 1 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 USA T: 740-593-2117 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.ohio.edu/environmentalstudies<http://www.ohio.edu/environmentalstudies> www.facebook.com/OhioES<http://www.facebook.com/OhioES> www.twitter.com/OhioES<http://www.twitter.com/OhioES> www.twitter.com/geoffdabelko<http://www.twitter.com/geoffdabelko> Senior Advisor, Environmental Change and Security Program Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC www.wilsoncenter.org/ecsp<http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ecsp> www.newsecuritybeat.org<http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Harman Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 6:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gep-ed] ISO enviro peacemaking study abroad Friends/colleagues/motivators: I have the opportunity (albeit an expensive one) to travel to Namibia as a master's student this summer "to observe firsthand the post-conflict, peacebuilding process, including activities associated with nation-building, social justice, and human security." Through the course of my studies, however, I've become increasingly interested in conflict resolution and peacemaking through (in spite of?) transnational, multi-stakeholder conservation initiatives. And while Namibia offers important lessons along these lines, they don't figure anywhere into the design of the trip. So I'm seeking information related to other opportunities that are related to the study of environmental peacemaking (or ideas on possibly crafting my own independent research project). As always, any thoughts are sincerely appreciated--and bonus points for insights into potentially cost-reducing grants or scholarships. 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