No. 24: Environment-Related Conflicts

Balancing Ecology and Politics

Author(s): Simon Mason
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 24
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2007

The notion of environmental and resource conflicts has received much attention in political debates lately. From a security policy perspective, however, this is a very heterogeneous category. Various types of such conflicts must be differentiated if responses are to be appropriate. Effective peacebuilding also requires a careful balance between ecology and politics. Otherwise, there is a danger of depoliticizing and ignoring local actors, or of over-politicizing global responses to such conflicts.

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