Journal article
Space, discourse and environmental peacebuilding
Tobias Ide
THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2017
Abstract
The concept of environmental peacebuilding is becoming increasingly prominent among peacebuilding scholars and practitioners. This study provides a brief overview about the various discussions contributing to our understanding of environmental peacebuilding and concludes that questions of space have hardly been explicitly considered in these debates. Drawing on discourse-analytic spatial theory, I discuss how the social construction of scale, place and boundaries are relevant for environmental peacebuilding processes and outcomes. This theoretical approach is then applied to the Good Water Neighbours project, which aims at improving the regional water situation and at building peace between ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt.