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Peace Research and Greening in the Red Zone: Community-Based Ecological Restoration to Enhance Resilience and Transitions Toward Peace

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Expanding Peace Ecology: Peace, Security, Sustainability, Equity and Gender

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A growing network of social and ecological scientists argue that change is to be expected and planned for, and that identifying sources and mechanisms of resilience in the face of change is crucial to the long-term well-being of humans, their communities, and the local environment. This ‘change’ can include armed conflict and civil unrest, especially as access to resources is constrained. Yet, several gaps in the resilience literature persist, including (1) a lack of studies focused on cultural systems (Wright/Masten 2005) related to change and conflict, (2) relatively few studies that explicitly re-embed humans in ecosystems in the overlap** contexts of security, sustainability, equity and peace, and (3) a need for more studies that integrate the theory and science of individual human resilience with broader ecological systems theory and research exemplified by social-ecological systems resilience scholarship (Masten/Obradovic 2008). The chapter engages the call for identifying sources and mechanisms of resilience and introduces five mechanisms in an attempt to address identified gaps in the resilience literature, and to further efforts to better understand and utilize community-based ecological restoration in enhancing resilience and transitions toward peace.

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Notes

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    For an overview of green political thought, see http://www.greenparty.org/ and http://www.global.greens.org.au/charter/10values(us).html

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    Illustrating how so-called ‘natural disasters’ can quickly take on characteristics of war zones, as many as 15,000 federal troops, National Guardsmen, and private contractors from Blackwater USA patrolled New Orleans in the wake of Katrina. For an overview of policing in post-Katrina New Orleans, see Deflem and Sutphin (2009) and for an over view of ‘disaster as war’ in post-Katrina New Orleans, see Tierney and Bevc (2007).

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    Vincent was tragically murdered in Basra, Iraq while reporting on the increasing infiltration of the Basra police force by Islamic extremists loyal to Muqtada al Sadr. See at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/international/middleeast/03cnd-iraq.html?_r=1

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    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/interviews/power.html

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    This work in progress is funded by USDA Federal Formula Funds, under two projects: (1) 2011–2012–221: Returning Warriors: A Study of the Social-Ecological Benefits of Coming Home to Nature; and (2) 2013–2014–380: Returning Warriors: Outdoor Recreation & Restoration for Resilience.

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Tidball, K.G. (2014). Peace Research and Greening in the Red Zone: Community-Based Ecological Restoration to Enhance Resilience and Transitions Toward Peace. In: Oswald Spring, Ú., Brauch, H., Tidball, K. (eds) Expanding Peace Ecology: Peace, Security, Sustainability, Equity and Gender. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace(), vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00729-8_3

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