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Thought-leaders and Frontline Workers in Environmental Peacebuilding: An Oral History | Dr. Erika Weinthal

34:17April 15, 2024

In this episode, ECSP's Claire Doyle speaks with Dr. Erika Weinthal, Lee Hill Snowdon Professor of Environmental Policy at Duke University and member of the United Nations Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding.

Dr. Weinthal shares how academics, practitioners, and policymakers collaborated to shape and bring momentum to the environmental peacebuilding field, why water was a central focus early on, where she thinks environmental peacebuilding is headed, and more.


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