ABSTRACT
The United Nations’ environmental peacebuilding agenda is based on an understanding that the environment can create a starting point for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. The underlying assumption is that mutually beneficial cooperation can grow from treating the human–natural systems in durable ways. However, environmental peacebuilding thinking falls easily into the trap of believing that women are better at managing natural resources in ways that contribute to peacebuilding without taking into account other relevant factors that shape women’s lives, including patriarchy and gendered norms and lack of land ownership. In this chapter, we discuss the critical approaches to environmental peacebuilding that feminist peace research provides.
