Twelve research agendas for advancing the peace-sustainability nexus
- SMARTS Center
- Apr 8
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 9
In the face of global climate crises and conflicts, Simangan et al.'s (2025) Twelve research agendas for advancing the peace-sustainability nexus, identify the pathway through pluralistic, systematic, and inclusive analysis, integrating the bottom-up driven positive-peace building with sustainability to turn conflicts into opportunities for transformative, institutional, and social changes. The twelfth agenda aligns with SMARTS Center’s work and it calls attention to the necessity and urgency to incorporate a pluralistic and multifaceted development approach that side-step siloing and oversimplification of problems and instead recognizes the intersectional positionalities, interconnectedness, and contexts of all crises. Interventions based on principles of plurality need to deliver peace, and justice via social, economic, and political mechanisms while learning and utilizing insights from nature to create a regenerative future and align with global common goals.
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Dahlia Simangan
Joshua Fisher
Tobias Ide
Vally Koubi
Ayyoob Sharifi
Katherine Alfredo
John Lee Candelaria
Simon Dalby
Cullen Hendrix
Ali Kharrazi
Úrsula Oswald Spring
Joyashree Roy