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Join the conversation of the CSO leaders in Government: I will be discussing the theme: forging a common front for sustainable development as civil society leaders in Government. https://lnkd.in/dJ_ef_FN

REIMAGINING THE STATE WORKHOP I was not sure what to expect at this two day workshop where abstracts were sent based on our research and practice addressing this issue and a group selected to participate It was one of those moments which transforms your thinking and it articulated a wider systemic and instititional design around my work working on the commons at grassroots level. The frameworks and tools of: 1) State reinforced self governance framework- giving power to citizens and totally shifting power structures within the political system 2) Institutional Grammer as a forensic way to analyse regulations and policies 3) Polycentric governance - distributed and democratic governing These tools are very useful for grassroots practitioners and the State. What we as practitioners bring to these are embodied and applied knowledge which to my mind actually makes them operational. Commons are arenas of care as well as Ostrom’s tools and frameworks of governance Already meetings are happening for collaboration with the organisers https://lnkd.in/eM_s9nYX

We are thrilled to welcome Alistair Hayden, PhD of Cornell University to the network! Hayden's research focuses on disasters and the environment. Overarching themes in Hayden's writings include the health impacts of wildfire smoke and other environmental hazards, equity in emergency management, and policy development. Read more in his member profile: https://buff.ly/3S2MPiK

#Dignity, Desecration & Our Environment What if fundamentally changing the way #environmentalists frame their thinking, talking and acting on “the environment” enabled conservative thinkers and activists (at least those not paid to be climate denialists), to help rescue #ourenvironment from #desecration by centering the billion children #UNICEF reports are today at deadly risk in the 33 most climate vulnerable countries due to the increasing frequency of formerly “once in a thousand year” floods, droughts, famines, wildfires and extreme weather — and what their fate means for their, and our, individual and collective #dignity? In “Environment in the Balance; The Green Movement & The Supreme Court” 2010, professor Jonathan Cannon of UVA Law provides an insightful study of US Supreme Court jurispreduce on environmental matters. Cannon cites the organizing power of the 1978 study of sociologists Riley Dunlap and Kent Van Liere that found a recognizable set of assumptions about an ecological focused worldview had by 1978 coalesced into what they described as the “New Environmental Paradigm” (which they abbreviated as the “NEP”) and its was challenging the anthropocentric “Dominate Social Paradigm (which they abbreviated as “DSP”). Jonathan Cannon asserted the NEP challenge to the DSP parrelled John Haidt’s (author “The Righteous Mind; Why Good People Are Divided by Politics & Religion” 2012) later work popularizing the notion of distinct conservative and liberal “moral foundations.” With conservatives demonstrably more concerned about “sanctity-degradation” framing that produced a “disgust” response to perceived violation of “purity” and the liberal “care-harm” framing with its cocern over an “eco crisis”. Regularly resulting in liberals more often perceiving environmental issues as “moral issues” than conservatives. Unless the environmental issues were framed in an athoroprocentric manner highlighting the impact on human beings and framed as a matter on the “sanctity-degradation” plane, then conservatives would see the pro-environmental issue as moral issues - ie as a moral need - as often as the liberals. As UVA Law’s Jonathan Cannon noted, this was a finding supported by the work of Matthew Fienberg and Robb Willer in “The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes” published in 2013 in the journal of Psychological Science. Fienberg and Willler noted that they: “ . . . found that reframing proenvironmental rhetoric in terms of purity, a moral value resonating primarily among conservatives, largely eliminated the difference between liberals' and conservatives' environmental attitudes (Study 3).” For more on this possibility - see:

It is absolutely vital that that Natural England is allowed to identify and protect SSSIs for the nation and that the resources are in place to support landowners to manage them effectively. Action for nature must be urgent and guided by science. https://lnkd.in/ehCzkFnX

Do you want to know what #LocalCommunities in the #Americas are hoping the Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Corte IDH will cover in the #AdvisoryOpinion on the issue of #ClimateEmergency? Here an initial overview ⬇️ #NGOsteerIACtHR #MSCA

Check out my chapter "The Possibilities of Radical Democratic Management" in the new amazing edited collection "The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological, snd Societal Transformation" https://lnkd.in/eCDk6zpV

As the climate crisis and global conflicts grow progressively worse, uprooting communities and forcing people to look for work in less hostile environments, more men, women, and children are likely to become entrapped in forced labor, from generation to generation. The takeaways and action items presented in our Ethical Supply Chain Workshop Insights Report, however, from the perspectives of government, developers, law, and finance groups to contractors and manufacturers, offer hope. Critically, the Workshop was a step forward to increase supply chain transparency and begin the work to transform the marketplace. Download the report now for key insights from the November 2023 Workshop, hosted by Grace Farms Foundation, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), and Turner Construction Company: https://bit.ly/3JbwbJ1

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization is now available! 🎉 📚 ➡ Thrilled to have collaborated with Seraphine Maerz and Christoph Trinn on a chapter on Autocratization and Political Conflict. ➡ We explore the mutually reinforcing effects of regime change and political conflict, discuss conceptual ambiguities & emphasize the importance of considering different types of political conflict 👉 More here: https://lnkd.in/e9GzknCs

📣 New Special Issue of the Peace Science Digest is now available! This special issue—focused on decolonial and Indigenous approaches to environmental peacebuilding—explores Indigenous (and bottom-up) perspectives on the environment, peace, and conflict in a variety of contexts. In an era of rapidly changing environmental conditions due to climate change, it is critically important that peacebuilders better understand how environmental realities could open new opportunities for—or negatively influence—peaceful outcomes in conflict-affected contexts. At the same time, environmental scientists must also better understand the principles and strategies of peacebuilding so that their work both avoids reinforcing violence and actively contributes to peace. Our intention is that this special issue inspire new thought, conversations, and practices in environmental peacebuilding responsive to an awareness of power dynamics and invigorated by Indigenous knowledge and experience. We are extremely grateful for our friends at the Environmental Peacebuilding Association for collaborating with us on this special issue. Read and download the report: https://lnkd.in/eDCdnZei