Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace
Conflicts over natural resources and the environment are among the greatest challenges in 21st-century geopolitics. These conflicts present serious threats to human security at both the national and local levels. Natural resources and the environment can nonetheless serve as a vehicle for peace if managed in a sustainable and equitable manner.
Environmental peacebuilding has emerged as a new frontier in interdisciplinary studies. It offers a conceptual and operational framework to understand the positive peacebuilding potential of natural resources across the conflict lifecycle while mitigating potential risks.
This 8-week course on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace provides an in-depth introduction to the multiple roles that natural resources and the environment play in the onset, escalation, and resolution of, and recovery from, violent conflicts. Many of the considerations and approaches in this course are also relevant to understanding and addressing social conflicts around natural resources and the environment.
This course is for:
Peace and security specialists that want to understand more about natural resources.
Natural resource experts that want to design more conflict-sensitive programs.
Sustainable development practitioners - as well as private-sector actors - who need to understand how natural resources can be developed in fragile contexts with weak governance.
Advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in the key concepts and practices of this growing field.
What you'll learn
- How natural resources and the environment impact conflict
- How conflict harms natural resources and the environment
- How natural resources and the environment support peacebuilding
- How you can assess and address the relationship between natural resources and conflict
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Length | 8 weeks |
Effort | 8 weeks, 2–4 hours per week |
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Cost | $0 |
From | SDGAcademyX, SDG Academy via edX |
Instructors | Carl Bruch, David Jensen, Richard Matthew, Marc Levy, Erika Weinthal |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Science |
Tags | Social Sciences Energy & Earth Sciences Environmental Studies |
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Rating | Not enough ratings |
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Length | 8 weeks |
Effort | 8 weeks, 2–4 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $0 |
From | SDGAcademyX, SDG Academy via edX |
Instructors | Carl Bruch, David Jensen, Richard Matthew, Marc Levy, Erika Weinthal |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Science |
Tags | Social Sciences Energy & Earth Sciences Environmental Studies |
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