The sustainability–peace nexus in the context of global change

Virji, Hassan; Sharifi, Ayyoob; Kaneko, Shinji; Simangan, Dahlia

doi:10.1007/s11625-019-00737-1

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“…The contemporary dynamics of global change and geopolitics highlights the pressing needs for unpacking the potential interrelationships and interdependencies of sustainability and peace (Virji et al 2019 ), as numerous regions across the world are not only exposed to various weather and climate-related challenges (IPCC 2018 ), but also conflicts and violence in different forms (Schleussner et al 2016 ). It is particularly important in the Global South, where people are struggling with limited resources under various climate-stressed conditions.…”

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“…For instance, decades-long droughts have fueled mass-scale communal and ethnic conflict and violence in some parts of Middle East, including Syria (Gleick 2019), in the Horn of Africa (Solomon, Birhane et al 2018), and in the Sahel (Raleigh 2010 ). Previous research has demonstrated that existing and increasing environmental stresses can directly or indirectly contribute to conflict (Barnett and Adger 2007 ; Schleussner et al 2016 ) by undermining the opportunities of peace and security (Virji et al 2019 ). These environmental stresses usually contribute to conflicts, violence, or animosity and mistrust under certain socio-economic, and political conditions (Abrahams 2019 ) especially in climate-vulnerable low-income developing societies, where political and institutional structures are fragile enough to be vulnerable to conflict and violence (Koubi 2019 ; Schleussner et al 2016 ).…”

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“…Most existing scholarship largely focuses on the nexus between climate and conflict; however, fails to capture possible broader meanings of the sustainability–peace nexus (Virji et al 2019 ). The sustainability–peace nexus needs to be informed by both negative and positive peace.…”

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“…The sustainability–peace nexus needs to be informed by both negative and positive peace. Also, research needs to unpack different subcomponents of the nexus using various transformative and transdisciplinary approaches (Virji et al 2019 ).…”

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The sustainability–peace nexus in crisis contexts: how the Rohingya escaped the ethnic violence in Myanmar, but are trapped into environmental challenges in Bangladesh

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Because of ethnic and cultural violence in Myanmar, approximately a million Rohingya fled to neighboring Bangladesh starting from August 2017, in what the UN has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. Those arriving in Bangladesh were able to escape decade-long ethnic violence in Myanmar, but the Rohingya’s immediate destination, Cox’s Bazar district is one of the most climate-vulnerable and disaster-prone areas in Bangladesh. Currently, they have been subjected to extreme rainfalls, landslides, and flashfloods. With the COVID-19 pandemic, they continue to face fear and further marginalization in resource-constrained Bangladesh, as well as increased vulnerability due to tropical cyclones, flashfloods, and landslides. The Rohingya in southeast Bangladesh are now at the epicenter of a humanitarian and sustainability crisis. However, their situation is not entirely unique. Millions of displaced, stateless or refugees around the world are facing multi-dimensional crises in various complex geopolitical, and climatic situations. Using the theoretical lens of political ecology and critical development studies, this paper analyzes the sustainability–peace nexus for millions of Rohingya in Myanmar and in Bangladesh. This paper is based on information from various sources, including three ethnographic field visits in recent years, which helped to get local insights into the current sustainability challenges in this humanitarian context. The core arguments of this paper suggest that sustainability–peace nexus will especially be compromised in climate-vulnerable resource-constrained conditions. To overcome this challenge, decolonizing Rohingya solutions would be critical, by engaging the Rohingya in the process of development and meaningful change, which can affect their lives, livelihoods, and wellbeing. Even though this paper has a specific geographical focus, the insights are relevant in parts of the world facing similar social, economic, political, and environmental challenges.

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The sustainability–peace nexus in crisis contexts: how the Rohingya escaped the ethnic violence in Myanmar, but are trapped into environmental challenges in Bangladesh

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“…At a global scale, three domains—sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, and peacebuilding—have been connected in multitudinous ways in academic literatures and formal policy. Scholarship has shown that destructive human–environment interactions that lead to disasters and conflicts have the potential to undermine sustainable development trajectories (Virji et al 2010 ) and the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (United Nations 2015 ) (Hope 2020 ; Nygard 2017 ; Scharlemann et al 2020 ). Yet, these outcomes are not pre-determined.…”

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Terra incognita: the contribution of disaster risk reduction in unpacking the sustainability–peace nexus

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2021

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The pursuit of sustainable development in the context of global environmental change requires enhanced capability to deal with changing hazard profiles, across scales and geographies. Humans attempt to manage human and natural systems interactions in ways that minimize disaster risks, and the political expression of this ambition is the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (‘Sendai Framework’). These efforts lay the foundation for sustainable development, as since the onset of the Sendai Framework, the policy objective of disaster risk reduction has been explicitly linked to global progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Separately, peace is a focal point of SDG 16, and widely regarded as foundational to attainment of all SDGs. Meanwhile in academic and policy arenas throughout the 2000s, evidence attests of the amplifying negative impact of climate-related disaster events on increasing violent conflict. What remains underexplored are questions of whether and how effective management of human and natural systems interaction, through disaster risk reduction, can contribute towards conditions of peace through peacebuilding. This paper explores how delivery of the Sendai Framework is necessary for sustainability, and potentially also for peace. In the context of the sustainability–peace nexus, the contribution of disaster risk reduction is terra incognita. This paper aims to deepen understanding of those under-researched tripartite links.

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