Environmental Peacebuilding

Fachseminar "Environmental Peacebuilding" (englischsprachig)

Ziele
Participants are able
• to identify the interaction between environmental factors and violent conflicts as well as peacebuilding processes
• to reflect on de-colonial perspectives on and the importance of indigenous/local knowledge about the environment
• to strategise how environmental issues can be addressed in a peacebuilding process

Building peace can only be truly successful if also the environment is protected. In violent conflicts, ecosystems are often sufffering, if not destroyed. The exploitation of natural resources can be the key interest in a conflict setting. At the same time, environmental factors like a drought or flood and other effects of the climate crisis can lead to more tensions, more competition and conflicts, or at the same time be an entry point to transform socio-political conflicts. Thus, peacebuilding should include the environment, as a factor for peace and conflict.

In this training we will analyse case studies which demonstrate how environmental issues affect conflicts. Participants will apply tools for identifying environmental risks and for developing strategies in order to prevent and transform violent conflicts fuelled by environmental factors.

Datum
02.–06.03.2026

Trainer*innen
Lisa Picott
With a 12-years’ experience within different Civil Peace Service (CPS) organisations, Lisa Picott brings in an understanding for the diverse landscape of actors and conflicts occurring in peace work. Having worked as peace worker in Colombia, PME Manager and Desk Officer from the head office(s) and as external consultant, she applies different lenses on the transformation of conflicts.

María Ximena González Serrano 
is a Colombian environmental lawyer, PhD in Advanced Studies on Human Rights, and socio-legal researcher. For over seventeen years, she has worked with grassroots communities and civil society organisations in Latin America designing, researching and implementing socio-legal mobilisation strategies to defend territories and rivers from extractive economies. 
 

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