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Barbara Magalhaes Teixeira

Doctoral Student

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The environment of lasting peace: natural resources and climate change in peace negotiations

Author

  • Barbara Magalhaes Teixeira

Editor

  • Ashok Swain
  • Joakim Öjendal
  • Anders Jägerskog

Summary, in English

Can natural resources and climate change positively affect peace? This chapter explores the relationship between natural resources and climate change and the onset of conflict, and flips the coin to understand how they can positively affect peace instead. Borrowing from fresh water cooperation theory and environmental peacemaking, this chapter proposes a similar approach to natural resources and climate change’s possible effect to peace in internal armed conflicts, turning them from conflict drivers to catalysts of negotiations. I argue for a phase-based approach to analyzing how natural resources and climate change can affect peace before, during, and after negotiations, with the intent of improving the discussion on the role of natural resources and climate change in peace and sustainable development.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2021-05-24

Language

English

Pages

273-289

Publication/Series

Handbook of Security and the Environment

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Topic

  • Political Science
  • Climate Research

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978 1 78990 065 1