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Forests of peace: environmental conservation in the aftermath of war – FORPEACE

Submission summary

This project investigates how post-conflict transitions shape, steer and constrain environmental policies. The FORPEACE Project focuses on forest conservation, an area that epitomizes how security dilemmas and economic trade-offs shape environmental policies. Forests are margins of state control, where political power is put to the test. They are also frontiers of capitalism, either protected from exploitation by violence and the territorial control of armed groups, or exposed to the plunder of a war economy. Consequently, conservation should be analysed as a major field in which political and economic domination are fought in the aftermath of war, as well as a valuable perspective on the intrinsic contradictions of post-conflict transition. Ultimately, the project aims to push the boundaries of knowledge on the production of post-war social and economic orders and the ecological dimensions of peace. The analysis will use a multi-level and comparative approach. First, through a systematic qualitative and quantitative analysis of global data on international aid, we will inquire into the emergence, production and spread of the post-conflict conservation agenda at a global level. Second, through a detailed comparison of three cases (Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Liberia), we will investigate how this agenda is translated into domestic policy by networks composed of foreign donors, state officials and NGOs. Third, through a smaller scale view, we will document and analyse the conflicts unfolding around and inside protected areas. Data will be gathered with a multi-method approach, combining qualitative methods, statistical inference, network analysis, and GIS (geographic information systems) analysis. Through an encompassing and inter-disciplinary approach, the FORPEACE Project will provide a cutting-edge analysis of the connections between conservation and peace in times of environmental crisis.

Project coordination

Jacobo Grajales (Université de Lille)

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Partner

Institut d'ethno-sociologie. Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Université de Lille
Observatorio de restitucion y regulacion de derechos de propiedad agraria

Help of the ANR 188,427 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project: December 2022 - 48 Months

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