Why attend
This session will provide insights into how conflict and its aftermath affect the ability of conservation managers and decision makers to safeguard nature, how conservation can be made more resilient in these situations and how we can apply locally learned lessons globally. Discussions will include legal and policy analysis.
Session Description
We are working to protect, conserve and restore nature at a pivotal moment in our history, when then world faces a triple planetary crisis as well as more armed conflicts than at any point since World War II. Legal protections both during peace and armed conflict are proving insufficient to tackle these crises.Conservation in conflict-affected areas is particularly challenging. However, fostering social and ecological resilience can contribute to peacebuilding and enhance legal protections for nature.
Therefore, we need tools and support to help conservation stakeholders understand how conflict and insecurity impact ecosystems and communities, and how protecting nature can contribute to recovery and to peace. Scaling this work requires knowledge and capacity-building, but also recognition of its value across nature, security and legal policy spaces.
This rapid briefing and focused panel discussion brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives to examine conflict-sensitive conservation, its value, and opportunities for scaling up.
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Scaling conflict-sensitive conservation to benefit nature, people and peace: Understanding the challenges
Scaling conflict-sensitive conservation to benefit nature, people and peace: Understanding the challenges
Scaling conflict-sensitive conservation to benefit nature, people and peace: Understanding the challenges
Scaling conflict-sensitive conservation to benefit nature, people and peace: Understanding the challenges