Environment-Related Conflicts: Balancing Ecology and Politics
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Environment-Related Conflicts: Balancing Ecology and Politics | |
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Simon Mason | |
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Article in CSS Analysis in Security Policy (Vol. 2 No. 24) | |
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November 2007 | |
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Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich [1] | |
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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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