Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

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

Nicoson, Christie LU and Magalhaes Teixeira, Barbara LU (2020)
Abstract
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... (More)
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. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
and
organization
publishing date
type
Other contribution
publication status
published
subject
publisher
Lund University
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
457d36f8-d9ba-4393-b7b9-34dd56427ebb
date added to LUP
2021-11-24 17:18:28
date last changed
2021-11-25 09:02:20
@misc{457d36f8-d9ba-4393-b7b9-34dd56427ebb,
  abstract     = {{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.}},
  author       = {{Nicoson, Christie and Magalhaes Teixeira, Barbara}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{05}},
  publisher    = {{Lund University}},
  title        = {{Building sustainable peace: transforming environmental peacebuilding in times of climate change}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}