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Digital Technologies for Environmental Peacebuilding: Horizon Scanning of Opportunities & Risks
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June 2024

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Albert Martinez Sequero

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Asim Zia

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Marie Schellens

Peaceful and healthy environments are prerequisites for sustainable development, but in many regions of the world, the devastating impacts of armed conflict, unsustainable resource exploitation and climate change are intensifying the degradation of our environments and contributing to fragility, instability, and insecurity. In response to these challenges, the field of environmental peacebuilding has evolved as a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, addressing the crucial role of the environment and natural resources in preventing, mitigating, resolving, and recovering from conflicts. This field promotes social cohesion, healthy ecosystems, and resilient environments through sustainable management of natural resources, effective environmental governance, and proactive climate change adaptation measures. A key objective of environmental peacebuilding is to manage the environment and natural resources in a manner that fosters peace and trust among individuals and groups. This is achieved by creating inclusive platforms for engagement, facilitating dialogue, encouraging collaboration, and fostering mutual benefits. Through these efforts, environmental peacebuilding seeks to transform environmental risks into opportunities for cooperation and peace, thereby contributing to a more stable and sustainable future. While digital technologies are increasingly used in environmental peacebuilding a comprehensive analysis exploring both the opportunities and risks these technologies present across the peace and security continuum has yet to be conducted. Prior research has delved into the application of digital technologies within humanitarian operations, mediation, and broader peace and security. However, there is a notable gap in understanding how these technologies specifically intersect with conflict risks and peacebuilding opportunities related to environment, natural resources, and climate change. In light of this gap, the primary objective of this report is to explore a pivotal question: What are the potential opportunities and risks for communities, governments, international actors, and other stakeholders in harnessing digital technologies for environmental peacebuilding? To answer this question, this report uses a horizon-scanning approach that compiles 17 case studies of digital technologies already in use by environmental peacebuilding practitioners at different stages of the peace and security continuum, with the aim of providing a nuanced understanding and guiding strategic decision making in this increasingly important intersection of digital technology and environmental peacebuilding

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