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Conservation suffers from the violence of human conflicts, while also engendering its own social and human-wildlife conflicts. Meanwhile, our approaches to conflict analysis and conflict resolution often separate human issues from environmental issues, resulting in conflict insensitivities or unsustainability on one side or the other, ultimately undermining positive peacebuilding overall. Environmental peacebuilding in a more-than-human world challenges us to recenter our worldviews and modus operandi to consider Indigenous and traditional forms of conservation and conflict resolution that are culturally integrated and bring social and environmental justice to the forefront.

About the speaker:

Dr. Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao is an Assistant Professor at Kent State University’s (KSU) School of Peace and Conflict Studies (SPCS). She is a critical socio-legal scholar and political ecologist, integrating peace and conflict studies with transboundary conservation and protected areas, Indigenous and community governance, human rights and rights of nature, and development alternatives. Much of her work seeks to address environmental conservation in places of conflict (i.e., conflict-sensitive and conflict-resilient conservation), conflicts in conservation (e.g., human-protected area conflicts, human-wildlife conflicts), and conflict resolution through conservation (environmental peacebuilding). Dr. Hsiao currently chairs the IUCN Commission on Environment, Economics, and Social Policy (CEESP) Theme on Environment and Peace and its Task Force on Migration, Environmental Change, and Conflict. She is a Member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force, Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPax), and an Honorary Member of the ICCA Consortium. She is originally from California with ancestral roots in Taiwan and is most at home where mountain forests and coastlines collide.

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