Conflict, Biodiversity and Climate Justice in Latin America and Africa

We are a network of academics and stakeholders interested in research notions and practices of environmental justice amidst conflict, allowing us to shed light into the distribution of climate change and ecological degradation hardships in the Global South that pays attention to gender, class and ethno-racial differences.

Keywords

Climate and climate change 

Climate & Climate Change

Development studies

Anthropology and Development

Development studies

Anthropology and Development

Violence and conflict
Ecology, biodiversity and systematics  

Conservation Ecology

Science and Technology 

Studies Science and Technology 

Studies
Sociology Environment

We are a network of academics and stakeholders interested in research notions and practices of environmental justice amidst conflict, allowing us to shed light into the distribution of climate change and ecological degradation hardships in the Global South that pays attention to gender, class and ethno-racial differences.

We aim to understand how past and present conflicts affect the environment -paying particular attention to fragile states in
which insecurity is endemic- and how in turn wider environmental change affects violent conflict in Africa & Latin America.
We want to launch an action agenda for the future. We will build on this knowledge to explore the manifold ways in which community-led initiatives & grass-root data gathering can illuminate and mobilise responses to intractable problems at the interface of environmental degradation, conflict and insecurity.

In various sites across the Global South violence is intrinsically linked with access to natural resources, and the health of the ecosystems that provide them. In many of these places 'the legitimate monopoly of violence' is challenged by cartels, militias, gangs & grass-roots policing. In some of these locales organised crime & militias have seized natural resources -many times working in complicity with transnational corporations and the State-exercising de facto sovereignty over mines, valuable farmlands & even complete regions of the country; often with nefarious consequences for health & the environment.

By integrating ethnography, participatory action research, and network/ modelling analysis into our investigation of conflict and environmental adaptations & creating a conceptual framework we think the present project holds interest for academics across the fields of STS, climate change, biodiversity, sociology and social anthropology of conflict amongst others.

This network reflects growing anthropological, ecological, biological, demographic and sociological interest in the intersections between protracted conflict, environmental degradation and human security.

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Collaboration between international universities and academics.

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Support development of interdisciplinary research.

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Support academics developing their academic outcomes and impact.