Moving beyond greening the economy
Moving beyond greening the economy is the title and motto of an online workshop that FriEnt together with Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF), Swedwatch and Quakers United Nations Office (QUNO) is organizing during the Geneva Peace Week 2022. It is scheduled on 1st of November 2022 at 3pm CET (online registration is […]
Economic transformation needs a conflict-sensitive approach
A system-wide transformation demands thinking and acting beyond sectoral boundaries to address the main drivers of unsustainable practices. At the same time it requires a context-specific unterstanding of current and potential issues, social tensions, gender dynamics and social, political and economic grievances – in short a conflict sensitive approach. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the […]
Environmental Peacebuilding
It is not only climate change that has a negative impact on the environment. Economic actors’ business activities may often bring about irreversible collateral damage on natural habitats. If this is the case in fragile and conflict situations conflict and violence may be exacerbated. A conflict-sensitive and rights-based approach to business activities are essential to […]
The challenges of environmental peacebuilding
Environmental peacebuilding is cruicial for all actors, including business and governments. An approach that combines a conflict-sensitivity and a rights-based approach is key to adequately understanding and addressing the challenges of environmental peacebuilding. The case study of the “Addax Bioethanol SL” project in Sierra Leone illustrates how a well-intentioned project subsequently failed on its own terms — […]
