Managing Resources Wisely for Global Peace and Stability
Learn how natural resources and environmental management can either fuel conflicts or support peace-building initiatives in fragile regions.
Learn how natural resources and environmental management can either fuel conflicts or support peace-building initiatives in fragile regions.
This comprehensive course explores the complex relationship between natural resources, environmental security, and peace. Students will examine how natural resources can both trigger conflicts and serve as tools for peace-building. The curriculum covers conflict drivers, environmental impacts during armed conflicts, and post-conflict recovery strategies. Through case studies from regions like Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan, participants learn about practical approaches to environmental peacebuilding. The course emphasizes sustainable resource management, conflict-sensitive programming, and the role of governance in maintaining stability. Special attention is given to climate stress, transparency, and women's empowerment in natural resource management.
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What you'll learn
Understand the complex relationship between natural resources and conflict dynamics
Analyze how environmental factors can contribute to or mitigate violent conflicts
Learn strategies for managing natural resources in conflict-sensitive ways
Explore international legal frameworks protecting environment during conflicts
Assess environmental peacebuilding opportunities in post-conflict settings
Develop skills in natural resource conflict mediation and resolution
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There are 5 modules in this course
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental security and peacebuilding. It explores how natural resources influence conflict dynamics and their potential for supporting peace initiatives. The curriculum covers the evolution of environment-peace-conflict linkages, conflict drivers, environmental impacts during armed conflicts, and post-conflict environmental peacebuilding strategies. Through case studies and practical examples, students learn about sustainable resource management, conflict-sensitive approaches, and governance frameworks that promote stability and peace.
Course Overview
Module 1
Natural Resources and Conflict Causes
Module 2
Natural Resources and the Environment during Armed Conflict
Module 3
Post-Conflict Environmental Peacebuilding
Module 4
Course Wrap-up and Final Assignment
Module 5
Fee Structure
Instructors
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Distinguished Environmental Policy and Security Scholar
Dr. Erika Weinthal serves as the John O. Blackburn Distinguished Professor at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, where she has established herself as a leading authority on environmental security and global environmental politics. Her expertise centers on water and energy issues, with significant contributions to understanding environmental conflict and peacebuilding. She is the author of "State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic Politics and International Politics in Central Asia," which received both the 2003 Chadwick Alger Prize and the 2003 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize. Her scholarly work includes co-authoring "Oil is not a Curse" and "Water Quality Impacts of the Energy-Water Nexus," as well as co-editing several influential volumes including "The Oxford Handbook on Water Politics and Policy" and "The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics." As a founding Vice President of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association and member of the UN Environment Programme's Expert Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding, she has shaped international environmental policy. Her contributions to water diplomacy were recognized with the 2017 Women Peacebuilders for Water Award. Currently, she serves as Director of Graduate Studies for Duke's University Program in Environmental Policy, Co-Director of the Duke Human Rights Center, and holds professorships at both Duke Kunshan University and the Sanford School of Public Policy.
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Environmental Security and Global Change Expert
Marc Levy serves as the deputy director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University's Earth Institute, where he heads the Science Applications Division. As a political scientist specializing in human dimensions of global environmental change, he has established himself as a leading authority on environmental security, sustainability metrics, and global environmental governance. His extensive research portfolio includes over 50 peer-reviewed publications and two co-edited books. He has held significant roles in major international assessments, including serving as a Lead Author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Working Group II and as Coordinating Lead Author for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. At Columbia University, he holds positions as an adjunct professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, teaching graduate courses on environment-security linkages, and co-directs the Certificate Program in Environment, Peace and Security. Since 1998, he has served as the lead project scientist of the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center. His work with the World Economic Forum includes chairing the Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability and co-leading the Environmental Sustainability Index and Environmental Performance Index initiatives, which have been featured at Davos since 1999. His research has received support from numerous prestigious organizations including NASA, NSF, USAID, and various UN agencies.
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