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Christie Nicoson

Doctoral Student

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Building sustainable peace: transforming environmental peacebuilding in times of climate change

Author

  • Christie Nicoson
  • Barbara Magalhaes Teixeira

Summary, in English

The Sustainable Development Goals outline a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future”. However, this is not only ambitious; there appear to be inherent contradictions to reconciling the economic, environmental, and social goals. Goal 16 on Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions relies on the promotion of “sustainable development” to achieve environmental and social goals. The idea of sustainable development is deeply connected to economic growth. While there are benefits to economic growth, like for example decreased risk of conflict, this approach is reactive rather than transformative. Therefore, there is a need to reimage sustainable development as a transformative process in society to fight not only social and economic inequalities, but also climate change vulnerabilities. We suggest that degrowth ideas open key opportunities for environmental peacebuilding, such that peacebuilding processes might foster more peaceful societies as well as help communities address climate change.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2020-05-17

Language

English

Document type

Web publication

Publisher

Lund University

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published