information and education initiatives
CLIMATE, PEACE, AND SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC-ASIA REGION
ICP is excited to announce our newest publication, Climate, Peace, and Security in the Pacific-Asia Region. Climate change functions as the framework for nearly every security issue that humans face today. In a global system of colonial legacies, conflict, and exploitation, certain regions and communities bear a greater burden of the consequences of climate change. Even though many smaller nations in the Pacific-Asia region have contributed little to human-induced climate change, the region bears the brunt of compounded impacts. This white paper, led by Katherine Waters (ICP Analyst), explores the link between climate change, environmental security threats, and positive peacebuilding in the Pacific-Asia region. The research examines six environmental security threats that exacerbate environmental degradation, human insecurity, and conflict. In response, the publication proposes specific and regional examples that deconstruct environmental security threats by centering positive peace, uplifting important patterns that demonstrate how just, peaceful, and sustainable long-term climate change solutions can fundamentally occur.
Download the White Paper Report and Infographic for free here.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WOMEN AND MOTHER-LED SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC-ASIA REGION
ICP is excited to share our newest publication, The Significance of Women and Mother-Led Social Change in the Pacific-Asia Region. This white paper reviews and analyzes the significance of channeling the inherent power, wisdom, ingenuity, and leadership of women and mothers in the Pacific-Asia Region to better advance climate action and build positive peace. By energizing women-led efforts, maternal activism, multigenerational relationships, grassroots organizing, community-centered approaches, multilateral dialogue, culturally-responsive practices, and restorative healing, we can ensure that the futures we are walking into are intentionally just, inclusive, sustainable, and peaceful. The extensive secondary research conducted for this topic, led by Healani Goo (ICP Apprentice) and Dr. Kealoha Fox (ICP President), examines the intersectional facets that are needed to advance, inform, and sustain effective climate solutions and peaceful societies. Of the data collected, five significant findings emerged: (1) the mental health and well-being of women and mothers, (2) the psychological dimensions of climate change and ecological degradation, (3) uplifting and educating women and girls in climate change, (4) deeper levels of engagement with local and community-based programs, and (5) utilizing intergenerational approaches and Indigenous knowledge. Download the White Paper Report and Research Fact Sheet for free by clicking the images below.
WORKSHOP FOR DARTMOUTH COLLEGE LINGUISTICS STUDENTS WITH CIS ABROAD
In collaboration with CIS Abroad, ICP ran a 2 week curriculum for Linguistics students at Dartmouth College. This intensive and interactive program led students through various exercises to help them learn skills to translate environmental stewardship into systemic change, and uplift community-led efforts towards peacebuilding and climate resilience.
Students engaged in poetry and art workshops led by skilled facilitators, as well as hands-on exercises to apply future thinking and core values to problem-solving and mobilization. Based on place-based education and systems thinking models rooted in Hawaiian culture and language, ICP’s workshops are designed to provide participants of all ages with tailored, human-centered, and interactive learning experiences.
UNITAR WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP: DISASTER RESILIENCE WEBINAR
On December 1st, in collaboration with The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), ICP ran a women's leadership webinar where we engaged over 60 women leaders in disaster resilience.
We gave an introduction to the basics of climate and peace, discussing topics like everyday peace indicators, positive peace, and Indigenous traditional knowledge, and how these topics can contribute to community resilience.
MOʻOLELO MONDAYS
The Institute for Climate and Peace in partnership with Waiwai Collective and with support from Ceeds of Peace, the Matsunaga Institute for Peace, Read to Me International, and Hawaiʻi Literacy, developed a reading program for children and communities to enjoy while sheltering in place. Visit our Moʻolelo Monday page for more information.
CLIMATE AS CONTEXT: ORGANIZING FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
ICP developed and piloted this workshop in two locations in the region. This workshop brought together international climate justice and education experts to engage in a candid conversation about how climate disruption is not a single issue but the context in which all social and economic issues will be determined.
OBAMA FOUNDATION: LEADERS ASIA-PACIFIC
ICP collaborated with the Obama Foundation to conduct a workshop at the Obama Leaders: Asia Pacific design session entitled Future Thinking and Leadership for the Asia-Pacific Region. 21 young leaders from the region examined emerging and urgent trends in the region to forge tools for climate resilient and peace-oriented leadership to bring back to their communities and integrate into their specific areas of expertise. The Institute for Climate and Peace was invited to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to facilitate a second workshop, Climate as Context: Organizing for Transformational Change among 200 Obama Leaders.
PACIFIC WOMEN’S WORKSHOP
In partnership with the East-West Center’s North Pacific Women’s Action Program, ICP brought together an intergenerational and all-women’s workshop at Hoʻoulu ʻĀina nature preserve to give space to dialogue and workshop around creative and sustainable strategies to build climate-resilient and peaceful futures.
CLIMATE CHANGE FOR EDUCATORS
In partnership with the Hanahauʻoli School’s Professional Development Center, ICP co-created a curriculum for educators on how to teach climate change science and impacts consistent with the tenets of progressive education.
CHRISTCHURCH STUDENT VOLUNTEER ARMY FUTURES WORKSHOP
Working with the University of Canterbury, ICP led emerging leaders from the Student Volunteer Army in Christchurch, New Zealand in a futures-inspired and action-oriented session. The session introduced participants to near- and long-term peacebuilding and climate change efforts and provided insight into why 21st century leadership must be climate-resilient and peace-oriented to be optimally effective.
EAST-WEST CENTER ASIA PACIFIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: CLIMATE AND PEACE INTENSIVE
ICP partnered with the East-West Center and other global subject matter experts to implement a leadership development program for 22 Fellows from the Pacific-Asia region studying in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The intensive included substantive lectures and panels, creative advocacy workshops, and home community action planning. Spanning five months, the intensive included both distance and in-residence learning. Sumita Sarma, one of the participating Fellows, took her findings from this intensive back to India and developed an initiative for factory workers in the garment industry through a campaign on socio-environmental awareness. She designed and implemented the campaign with the aim to minimize health and environmental impacts for garment factory workers. Similarly, Naveed Anwar took his findings home and is working on a project in Pakistan that will sound a wake-up call to farmers and concerned state authorities across the country to bridge the gap between policy-makers, victims, and change agents. ICP implemented a similar stream of programming for the East-West Center’s 2019 fellows. Click here to learn more about what these leaders are doing in their home communities.