Integrating Peace into Environmental Work

When: December 1 from 13:00 to 15:00 CET
Where: Online on Zoom
With: Siad Darwish and Amanda Woomer

This session will cover the ways in which environmental and conflict issues can influence one another as well as good practices and common pitfalls of integrating peace work into environmental work. 

Based on their experiences in supporting both environmental and peace-focused organizations and teams in integrating environment, climate, conflict and peace, Siad Darwish and Amanda Woomer will walk participants through the common connections between environmental and peacebuilding work, what peace-positive environmental work can look like, and key challenges in integrating the two as well as potential ways to overcome them. 

Participants will have an opportunity to think about the connections between their own work and conflict, leaving the session with ideas about connections to explore and lessons that can be transferred to other types of integrative work.

Since we have limited spots for the session and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, we kindly ask you to take this registration as fully binding. Should your plans change, please cancel in time via mail, so that a fellow peacebuilder can take your spot. 

About the Facilitators

Siad Darwish, PhD is a leading expert in climate action in fragile and crisis-affected settings. He has co-designed policy and programming frameworks for Oxfam, WWF, USAID and the International Rescue Committee, and advised private sector clients including PwC and the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has consulted with UN agencies, the European External Action Service, and the British Foreign Office to integrate gender, conflict sensitivity, and resilience into climate strategies. A Research Associate at the University of Melbourne, he has also taught and conducted research at the University of Wollongong and Deakin University. Siad holds a PhD in Anthropology from Rutgers University, focused on environmental governance, and a MA in the Anthropology of Social Transformation from the University of Sussex.

Amanda Woomer, PhD is a facilitator and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) expert with 15 years of experience supporting environmental peacebuilding, conflict-sensitive conservation, climate resilience, and other international development work. Her focus is participatory, accessible, and adaptive processes that support effective and sustainable initiatives that address real needs.