Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP)

As part of its mandate on community management, the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform aims to strengthen networking and community building in different topics within the peacebuilding sector. Through this work, the Platform runs a Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace.

The community is divided into three tracks of activity: Policy, Practice, and the Evidence base.

Read more about the community’s origin, function, and goals in this recent evaluation.

Geneva-based institutions:

  • Baha'i International Community United Nations Office

  • Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

  • Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding

  • DCAF - Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance

  • Disability Rights Fund

  • EarthJustice

  • Food and Agriculture Organization

  • Fondation Hirondelle

  • Geneva Centre for Security Policy

  • Geneva Environment Network

  • Geneva Graduate Institute 

  • Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining

  • Geneva Water Hub

  • Gulf Research Center

  • Hans Wilsdorf Foundation

  • ICT4Peace

  • Independent Diplomat

  • Initiatives of Change Switzerland

  • Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

  • International Committee of the Red Cross

  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

  • International Labor Organization

  • International Organization for Migration

  • International Union for Conservation of Nature

  • Interpeace

  • Kofi Annan Foundation

  • Lutheran World Federation

  • Nonviolent Peaceforce

  • PeaceNexus Foundation

  • Principles for Peace

  • Quaker United Nations Office

  • Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

  • Reos Partners

  • Small Arms Survey

  • swisspeace 

  • Trustworks Global

  • United Nations Development Programme

  • United Nations Environment Programme

  • United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees

  • United Nations Institute for Training and Research

  • United Nations University

  • Veritas Global

  • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

  • World Council of Churches

  • World Health Organization

  • World Meteorological Organization 

  • World Organization of the Scout Movement

  • World Trade Organization

  • World Vision International

  • World Wildlife Fund

  • Zoi Environmental Network

Universities:

  • American University

  • Australian National University

  • China Foreign Affairs University

  • Colegio de Mexico

  • Columbia University

  • Duke University

  • European University

  • Georgetown University

  • Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)

  • New York University

  • Ohio University

  • Osun State University

  • Sciences Po

Europe-based institutions:

  • adelphi

  • Alp Analytica

  • Austian Center for Peace

  • BBC Media Action

  • Berghof Foundation

  • Bread for the World

  • CGIAR

  • Chatham House

  • Christian Aid

  • Clingendael Institute

  • Conciliation Resources

  • Conflict and Environment Observatory

  • European Centre for Development Policy Management

  • European Environmental Bureau

  • European Institute of Peace

  • European Peacebuilding Liaison Office

  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

  • forumZFD

  • FriEnt

  • Hague Academy for Local Governance

  • HALO Trust

  • International Alert

  • International Crisis Group

  • International Institute for Environment and Development

  • International Institute for Law and the Environment

  • International Institute for Sustainable Development

  • Misereor

  • Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

  • Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

  • Overseas Development Institute

  • PAX for Peace

  • Right Livelihood

  • Robert Bosch Stiftung

  • Saferworld

  • ShelterBox

  • Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden

  • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

  • Swedwatch

  • Tropenbos International

  • United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus

  • Wetlands International

  • World Food Program

  • World Resources Institute

Global institutions:

  • ABEMO Cameroon

  • Acción Ecológica

  • Alliance for Peacebuilding

  • Association for the Welfare of Women and Indigenous People

  • Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

  • Catholic Relief Services

  • CDA Collaborative Learning

  • Center for Climate and Security

  • Centrarse

  • Centre for Bhutan Studies

  • Climate Rights International

  • Climate Security Mechanism

  • Combatants for Peace

  • Conservation International

  • Corporacion Motum

  • Ecological Balance Cameroon

  • EcoPeace Middle East

  • Environmental Law Institute

  • Environmental Peacebuilding Association

  • Freedom House

  • Fund for Peace

  • Global Climate Justice Network

  • Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security

  • Global Environmental Institute - China

  • Global Evergreening Alliance

  • Global Green Growth Institute

  • Global Initiative for Environment and Reconciliation

  • Global Sunrise Project

  • Hope Advocates Africa

  • Institute for Climate and Peace

  • Institute for Economics and Peace

  • Jubitz Family Foundation

  • Kenya National Civil Society Centre

  • Kenya National Cohesion and Integration Commission

  • Mediators Beyond Borders

  • MEDRC

  • Native Movement

  • Nepal Peacebuilding Initative

  • Open Institute for Social Science

  • Oxfam

  • Peace on Climate

  • Search for Common Ground

  • Somali Greenpeace Association

  • South West and North West Women's Taskforce (SNWOT), Cameroon

  • Snow Leopard Trust

  • Syria Recovery Trust Fund

  • United States Institute of Peace

  • UN Women

  • Vetor Brasil

  • Vision Group

  • Wasafiri

  • We Do Green Rwanda

  • West Africa Network for Peacebuilding

  • Wilson Center

  • Women for Women International

  • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

  • World Bank

  • World Wildlife Fund Myanmar

  • World Wildlife Fund Ukraine

  • Zambia National Forest Conservation Organisation

  • Zambian Peace, Conflict Resolution, and Development Initiative

Universities:

  • University of Ilorin

  • University of Kwazulu-Natal

  • University of Lausanne

  • University of Leicester

  • University of Massachusetts

  • University of Melbourne

  • University of Nairobi (Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies)

  • University of Oxford

  • University of Rome La Sapienza

  • University of Rwanda

  • University of the West Indies

  • Uppsala University

  • Zeppelin Universität

The community of practice is comprised of more than 800 members. It was founded in Geneva, expanded across Europe, and currently spans the globe. Many participants represent institutions or organizations, some represent states or other policy-making bodies, and others operate individually. The list below is not comprehensive, but a large snapshot of the community’s current composition.

Meet some of the institutions engaging in this work:

Universities:

  • Tilburg University

  • United Nations System Staff College

  • Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo

  • Università degli studi Roma Tre

  • Università di Padova

  • Université de Montpellier

  • Universiteit Leiden

  • University for Peace

  • University of Alaska

  • University of Amsterdam

  • University of Bradford

  • University of Brighton

  • University of British Columbia

  • University of California, Irvine

  • University of Delaware

  • University of Denver

  • University of Exeter

  • University of Geneva

  • University of Haifa