Nature and Wars Seminar 6: Long-term environmental consequences of the past wars

From wartime destruction to peacetime extraction: environmental consequences beyond the battlefield
Barbara Magalhães Teixeira (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden)
Abstract: War and armed conflict have profound environmental and climate consequences, from the emissions from military activities and build-up to the destruction of the environment during wartime. However, some of the same logics of environmental harms during war transition into peacetime. In this presentation, we will discuss different types of relations between nature, climate, and the environment with conflict dynamics, and how peace building strategies based on extractive models continue to perpetuate environmental and climate harm. We will critically engage with current environmental peace building strategies and creatively discuss alternatives for building sustainable and climate-resilient peace.

Barbara Magalhães Teixeira is a peace and conflict researcher and educator. She is currently a Researcher in the Climate Change and Risk Program at SIPRI -Stockholm International Research Institute. Her work focuses on how nature, climate, and the environment affect and interact with conflict and peace dynamics. She pays special attention to gender, inequality, development and extractivism.

Eoghan Darbyshire (Conflict and Environment Observatory, Leeds, UK)
Abstract: The information will be provided later.

Joseph Hupy (Purdue University, USA)
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