Building Environmental Peace

By analyzing the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP's) contribution to peacebuilding, this book aims to show how international bureaucracies develop knowledge and thereby come to matter on the world stage. Portraying UNEP as an open system, it explores how a growing understanding within the Programme of how environmental degradation shapes insecurities and vice versa has motivated its work on peacebuilding. The theoretical part of this book addresses knowledge, open systems, and knowledge creation. It then presents a historical discussion of UNEP's development in an open system context. Finally, it investigates how knowledge emergence on the linkage between the environment, conflicts, and insecurities influenced UNEP's interests and its work on environmental peacebuilding.

Focuses on the question of how international bureaucracies become knowledgeable actors in world politics Interested in understanding how international bureaucracies develop knowledge and become experts Offers an analysis of the UN Environment Programme and UNEP's Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding programme

Autorentext
Natalia Dalmer is a researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. She works on international bureaucracies, knowledge, and environmental politics.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction - (Old) Actors and (New) Issues In World Politics.- Chapter 2: Knowledge and International Bureaucracies.- Chapter 3: International Bureaucracies as Open Systems.- Chapter 4: Knowledge Creation by International Bureaucracies.- Chapter 5: A Note on the Research Approach.- Chapter 6: UNEP and the Evolution of Environmental Concerns - An Open System Perspective.- Chapter 7: We can Count the Butterflies Later - Knowledge Emergence, Agency, and Opportunity.- Chapter 8: UNEP and Environmental Peacebuilding.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: International Bureaucracies , Knowledge Creation, and Change.