Environmental defenders work to maintain the peacebuilding role of nature in Northern Uganda
Nardi, Maria Andrea LU
(2024)
In Peace News Network
- Abstract
- In recent years, there has been a ‘crackdown’ against environmental defenders across Uganda. Journalists, students, farmers, and rural dwellers are defending the natural environment, protesting and mobilizing against unfair treatment and forced displacements brought by fossil fuel infrastructures, agribusiness, hydropower, or carbon offsetting. This has pitted authorities and large-scale capital against environmental defenders who are seeking to protect the natural environment against profit-driven corporations that seek to expand the resource extraction frontier into new geographical areas. In this context, and fifteen years after the end of the armed conflict in Northern Uganda, we question whether peace can be sustainable in this region... (More)
- In recent years, there has been a ‘crackdown’ against environmental defenders across Uganda. Journalists, students, farmers, and rural dwellers are defending the natural environment, protesting and mobilizing against unfair treatment and forced displacements brought by fossil fuel infrastructures, agribusiness, hydropower, or carbon offsetting. This has pitted authorities and large-scale capital against environmental defenders who are seeking to protect the natural environment against profit-driven corporations that seek to expand the resource extraction frontier into new geographical areas. In this context, and fifteen years after the end of the armed conflict in Northern Uganda, we question whether peace can be sustainable in this region of the country. To fully comprehend current disputes over land or the defence of the natural environment, it is necessary to observe how nature is integrated into peacebuilding and development policies. This is because there is often a narrow understanding on how local communities integrate the natural environment in their everyday life. Three issues stand out in relation to the contributions nature can make to foster sustainable peace and development in Northern Uganda beyond its role in income generation by resource exploitation. The natural environment is relevant for peace because it works as a (a) semiotic system, (b) public space, and (c) reconciliation means. (Less)
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- author
- Nardi, Maria Andrea
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-03-18
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- envieronmental defenders, Uganda, environmental peacebuilding, peacebuilding, resource extraction, extractivism, value of nature, North Uganda, nature
- categories
- Popular Science
- in
- Peace News Network
- project
- The Nature of Peace – The dynamics between post-conflict peacebuilding and environmental protection
- Environmental Human Rights Defenders – Change Agents at the Crossroads of Climate change, Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- cacd6ebd-2fab-4a7c-9cba-cdbee3eccc22
- alternative location
- https://peacenews.com/environmental-defenders-work-to-maintain-the-peacebuilding-role-of-nature-in-northern-uganda/
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- 2024-03-22 04:01:51
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- 2024-03-25 08:51:06
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