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Irregular Ecologies: The Environmental Impact of Unconventional Warfare

Workshop - Florianopolis, Brazil

19.07.2019 – 20.07.2019

Location: Florianopolis, Brazil

Conveners: Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich), Javier Puente (Smith College)

Conference Chair: Javier Puente (Smith College)

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and the Armed Conflict and Environment Research Network (ACERN) organize a two-day workshop focused on the interaction between guerilla warfare and social and environmental transformations in the Global South, with a special focus on the last three decades.

Warfare seldom affects humans alone. While inflicting devastating effects on societies, armed conflicts also shape economic, cultural, sociopolitical, and ecological transformations. As violence territorializes, armed conflicts begin to affect the ecologies and livelihoods that once sustained them. Environmental transformation thus emerges as an inextricable correlate of human conflict. With the dawn of the Cold War, the environmental impacts of human conflict unfolded alongside the same geopolitical trends that engulfed the Global South. Decolonizing movements, guerrilla warfare, rural insurrections, and other forms of intrastate conflict developed from within ecologically fragile areas and eco-sensitive zones, including savannahs, valleys, watersheds, islands, mangroves, forests, plateaus, and jungles. Over the years, emerging and consolidated republics such as Ethiopia, Colombia, the DRC, Vietnam, Peru, Liberia, Mexico, Myanmar, the Philippines, Nepal, Uganda, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria, among others, have become gruesome epicenters of armed conflict in sensitive ecosystems and precarious agrarian landscapes.

Please find the preliminary program here.

Submitted papers (for participants only; password protected):

Agbonifo, John

Andersson, Tony

Arriola, Theresa

Ballvé, Teo

de Majo, Claudio

Hay, Amy

Johnson, Jennifer Lee

Kwashirai, Vimbai

Lal, Uttam

Leal, Claudia

Lyons, Kristina

Pretel, David

Puente, Javier

Ruiz, Diana

Tugrul, Rojda