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Environmentální spolupráce v konfliktních oblastech
Environmental Cooperation in Conflict-Prone Areas

Author(s): Šárka Waisová
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů
Keywords: environmental cooperation; cooperation in conflict areas; China; Taiwan; India; Pakistan; Israel; Palestinian Authority; South Korea; North Korea; Thailand; Cambodia

Summary/Abstract: A decade ago there emerged the idea that environmental cooperation is able to initiate and sustain a dialogue between the parties of a conflict and facilitates conflict transformation and peacebuilding. This article tests three hypotheses which stipulate conditions and effects of environmental cooperation in conflict-prone areas. The article shows that environmental cooperation can emerge even during a conflict, but only at a time when the intensity of the violence is low. The emergence and development of environmental cooperative projects also depends on the support of external actors, and the intensity of environmental cooperations in conflict-prone areas remains weak even after many years.

  • Issue Year: 49/2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 5-25
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Czech