From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding?

全球环境变化和武装冲突是21世纪的两大挑战。研究人员越来越多地研究这两个挑战之间的相互作用，特别关注气候变化和冲突。尽管越来越多的证据表明，气候变化会影响冲突风险，但潜在的途径仍不清楚。环境建设研究自然资源管理如何支持冲突预防、解决和恢复。然而，关于环境建设(包括适应气候变化)如何应对气候冲突风险，以及它产生了哪些(意想不到的)负面影响，人们知之甚少。该网络分三个步骤解决这些知识差距。首先，它分析了气候变化最有可能影响冲突风险的途径。第二，网络成员将调查环境建设如何(以及在何种情况下)可能解决这些途径。第三，该网络将采取关键立场，研究环境建设做法的潜在负面影响。具体成果包括一期特刊、一次公共活动、播客、博客帖子和提拔年轻学者。

Global environmental change and armed conflicts are two grand challenges of the 21st century. Researchers are increasingly studying the interactions between these two challenges with a particular focus on climate change and conflict. While there is increasing evidence that climate change influences conflict risks, the underlying pathways remain unclear. Environmental peacebuilding studies how natural resource management can support conflict prevention, resolution, and recovery. Little is known, however, on how environmental peacebuilding (including climate change adaptation) can address climate-conflict risks, and what (unintended) negative effects it has. The network tackles these knowledge gaps in three steps. First, it analyses through which pathways climate change is most likely to affect conflict risks. Second, the network members will investigate how (and in which contexts) environmental peacebuilding is likely to address these pathways. Third, the network will take a critical stance and study the potential negative impacts of environmental peacebuilding practices. Specific outcomes include a special issue, a public event, podcasts, blog posts and the promotion of young scholars.