ABSTRACT
The Tijuana–San Diego border region suffers from social and ecological disparities and is a case study of the conflict that arises in the absence of shared national political institutions. This chapter (1) discusses environmental peacebuilding dimensions and strategies implemented by boundary organizations, arguing that cooperation must transcend national boundaries in ways that challenge state-centered accounts and (2) supports the position that complex security challenges cannot be addressed by treating social and ecological systems separately. Bolstered by specific examples provided by the authors’ last decade of working together in this binational setting, we offer examples of actions to build peace from the bottom-up, emphasizing that local capacity and boundary-spanning are essential to successful resilience strategies and adaptive governance.
