Authors: Helen Obregón and Vanessa Murphy, ICRC. Other authors in this series have observed succinctly that war can be described as development in reverse. The long tendrils of its direct and indirect impacts on the environment are increasingly understood and documented. IUCN reports that over the last 70 years, humans…

Authors: Mirali Shukla, Galeo Saintz, Elaine Hsiao, Richard Matthew Background Movement has always been an integral part of the lives of humans and all other species. It is a complex and effective adaptive strategy that helps to maintain the health and wellbeing of countless ecosystems. Large marine megafauna make seasonal…

Authors: Florence Foster and Maya Street, QUNO; Hannah Peters and Jessica Johansson, Swedwatch; Sylvia Servaes and Caroline Kruckow, Working Group on Peace and Development — Frient The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of our global system and the rife inequality across our world. It has also demonstrated clearly that…

Authors: Claire McAllister, David Michel and Caspar Trimmer As the world prepares to mark 50 years since the first Stockholm Conference, the UN Conference on the Human Environment, where do we find ourselves? We know far more about the impacts of human activity on the natural environment than we did…

Authors: Carl Bruch, Catriona Gourlay, Ryan Maia, and Catherine Wong[1] Peace is an essential element of sustainable development. In early June, the international community will gather at the forthcoming Stockholm+50 International Meeting to reflect on progress in sustainable development, the outstanding gaps and challenges, and to discuss the way forward…

Authors: Jorge Iván Hurtado Mora (Universidad Externado de Colombia); Lizeth Carolina Quiroga Cubillos Note: This article was originally written and published in Spanish. It has been translated to English for online audiences. Context Citizen intervention in environmental management is the result of a constitutional structure based on the Social Rule…

Authors: Libardo Suárez Fonseca, Natalia Galvis, Antonio Martínez N., Héctor Velásquez, Rosa Ladino, Pilar Lemus E, Juan Carlos Troncoso, Gisela Paredes-Leguizamón, Víctor Setina, Natalia Jimenez, and the Collective of Park Rangers (Sistema de Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia) Note: This article was originally written and published in Spanish. …

Authors: Jennifer Vargas and Juan Carlos Garzón (Fundación Ideas para la Paz); Katarina Schulz, Lukas Rüttinger, Beatrice Mosello, Daria Ivleva and Markus Buderath (adelphi); Julia Gorricho (WWF) Note: This article was originally written and published in Spanish. It has been translated to English for online audiences. Context The environmental, cultural…

Authors: Emily Sample (The Fund for Peace); Regina Paulose (International Criminal Law Attorney) Context The environmental peacebuilding field grows out of a multi-disciplinary acknowledgement that the environment is an essential aspect of future conflict prevention. Building upon the vast scholarly and grey literature of both peace studies and environmental science…