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Space, discourse and environmental peacebuilding

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  • Tobias Ide

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The concept of environmental peacebuilding is becoming increasingly prominent among peacebuilding scholars and practitioners. This study provides a brief overview about the various discussions contributing to our understanding of environmental peacebuilding and concludes that questions of space have hardly been explicitly considered in these debates. Drawing on discourse-analytic spatial theory, I discuss how the social construction of scale, place and boundaries are relevant for environmental peacebuilding processes and outcomes. This theoretical approach is then applied to the Good Water Neighbours project, which aims at improving the regional water situation and at building peace between Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians. The results suggest that discursive constructions of space are important in facilitating, impeding or shaping environmental peacebuilding practices. Analyses of environmental peacebuilding, but also of peacebuilding more general, are therefore encouraged to draw more strongly on the findings of spatial theory.

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  • Tobias Ide, 2017. "Space, discourse and environmental peacebuilding," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 544-562, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:38:y:2017:i:3:p:544-562
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1199261
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