Dear Colleagues,
Today’s email features another spotlight in our new monthly series, Amplifying Voices for Environmental and Climate Peacebuilding. I share my thanks with our volunteer communications team reviewing the spotlight proposals and working to bring these stories to all of you!
If you’re new to the ECCP, welcome. Watch the recording of our 2026 New Member orientation here. You can follow the ECCP conversation on WhatsApp in our three groups: English, French, or Spanish; or in our ECCP LinkedIn group.
Our next general monthly networking meeting will be held Tuesday 15 September at 14h CET. You can register your interest on this sign-up sheet if you’d like to receive calendar invitations for our monthly meetings.
How can local peacebuilders collaborate with environmental experts? 3 lessons from Central Asia
Across Central Asia, climate change is intensifying pressures on water, land and livelihoods, which increases the risk of conflict. Yet many communities still view climate action as a "foreign agenda" rather than an issue that directly affects their daily lives.
The Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI), the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict Central Asia Regional Secretariat, is working to change that by partnering with environmental experts and drawing on its long-standing experience in peacebuilding and conflict prevention. Together, they are making climate-sensitive peacebuilding more relevant and meaningful for local communities. What can peacebuilders learn from this collaboration? Discover three practical lessons from Central Asia on how building partnerships across sectors can strengthen both climate resilience and peace.
Peacebuilders do not need to become climate experts to act on climate risks, but greater and more sustainable impact is possible when they start collaborating with them. Reach out to environmental experts in your network, begin learning each other's language and bring climate conversations into your community dialogues. Small steps, like connecting people, translating knowledge and building trust, can help turn environmental challenges into opportunities for cooperation and conflict prevention, just like the ECCP community. Read the full story on GPPAC’s website.
Co-funded by the European Union, this work is part of GPPAC’s CLIMPSE – Climate, Peace and Security: See More. Act Together project, which empowers local peacebuilders to act on the connections between climate, peace and security. By amplifying local solutions, the project informs policies and inspires action for the safety and security of people, communities and societies. Click here to find out more about CLIMPSE.
What’s happening in the ECCP?
Well, there’s a lot! Your best guide to all-things-ECCP is our 2026 Activity Page, which features a calendar of upcoming conversations.
We have working groups on different topics:
Peace@COP31
Peace@CBD
Green Transition
Environment, Peacebuilding, and Security
Decolonization Discussion Group
Complexity in Environmental Peacebuilding
Find links to notes and upcoming meetings on this page.
We also have regional chapters that serve as a platform for connecting with people in your area:
Nairobi Region
América Latina y el Caribe
Central Asia
Germany
London
Switzerland
And emerging groups in Nigeria, the Pacific, Nepal, and more…
Learn more about the chapters on this page.
We have an ECCP Community Fund which operates on a participatory microgranting model. Our next cycle will open in mid-August. You can learn more about the fund on this page.
Are you looking for related newsletters on ECCP topics? Click here.
Are you looking for related trainings on ECCP topics? Click here.
And are you looking for resources on ECCP topics? Check out the Environmental Peacebuilding Association’s Knowledge Platform, a massive repository of all-things-EP.
Related resources
Community members have shared related resources over the past few weeks, which I collate here:
Declaration: Introducing a CSO-led Declaration on Land, Peace, and Security to be launched at the next UNCCD COP (linked here)
Video: How can climate change help us build a more peaceful world? (linked here)
Learning paper: The peacebuilding promise of environmental management: Lessons on environment, climate change, security and peacebuilding (linked here)
Article: War reveals the isolation of Iran’s scientists (linked here)
Webinar, 6 August: Environmental Risks & Hazards in Nigeria (linked here)
If you’d like to share your resource here in the next newsletter edition, just send an email! You can also share resources on our WhatsApp and LinkedIn groups.
I wish you all cool, calm weeks ahead.
Warmly,
Annika