The White Paper on the future of Environmental Peacebuilding

PeaceNexus supported the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform to lead the collaborative development of a White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding.

PeaceNexus has supported the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform to undertake a collective process to advance a forward-looking, practical agenda for environmental peacebuilding.

In close collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association, the 18-month collective process culminated with the launch of the final written product consisting of two major components: the first being a 32-page White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding which has been translated into multiple languages. This paper is a policy-oriented document which aims to deliver a strong, cogent message about the future of the field and inform important policy and community events in 2022, including the Stockholm+50 UN Conference on the Human Environment. The second part is a compendium featuring 50 contributions from nearly 150 authors spanning 30 countries and 84 institutions.

The White Paper was intentionally designed as a highly collaborative project, inviting institutions to work together to develop submissions, and creating space for field-wide reflection on drafts at each step of the process. The process was an opportunity to harness the collective experiences of practitioners, researchers, policymakers, donors and activists, showing the potential of integrated responses to effectively tackle environment and peace challenges.

Read the White Paper and Compendium, and learn more about the project on the offical website.

The White Paper was catalytic in its process and substantial in its impact. It brought in different voices to provide a direction for this field through an innovative merging of scholarship, practice, policy and art. PeaceNexus was central to the development and launch of the White Paper, providing both funding and expert guidance. In doing so, it showed how a strategic combination of financial and technical support can bring together environmental, humanitarian, and peacebuilding actors to develop a common vision.

Carl Bruch, President, Environmental Peacebuilding Association