Peace Education and Environmental Sustainability

The environmental concerns on our planet have expanded dramatically in recent decades and are now among the most serious challenges affecting people's well- being around the globe. Environmental sustainability is one of the factors which are in close relevance with peace. Because, lack of environmental sustainability might cause in conflict over food, water, energy and also might violate human right and threaten human sustainable development. Environmental Education as a type of peace education is a key lever of sustainability, and it is considered more and more frequently as necessary. Environmental Education is cardinal to addressing environmental degradation and ensuring environmental sustainability. The main question here is that that how environmental education as a type of peace education can contribute to environmental sustainability? A question that is the main core of this writing which try to provide an illustration of a working model to settle environment-driven peace threatening factors.

Autorentext
Mahdi Karimi is a PhD candidate in Political geography at TMU and also a visiting student at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His PhD dissertation is about "Explanation of the peace building pattern in geographical regions; a case study of Europe Union Region". Zahra Ahmadipor is a professor of political geography at TMU.