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Insight by Emily Wright O'Kelly, Tobias Bernstein
News publ. 23. Jul 2013
During the second stage of the “Environment, Cooperation and Conflict” training days in mid-July, adelphi spent a week in Bonn with a group of young people discussing future environmental challenges. To stimulate debate, the event featured various components, such as a simulation of a UN Security Council meeting.
The training days, held on the premises of the Museum König in Bonn, gave school pupils and students an opportunity to take an in-depth look at the issues surrounding rising resource consumption and the impacts of climate change that could potentially lead to conflict. The “Environment, Conflict and Cooperation” exhibition was actively integrated into the event in order to illustrate the challenges of climate change, water and food shortages and violent resources conflicts. Texts, photographs, diagrams and charts provide information on the areas of water, energy, climate, land use, war economies and human security. They also demonstrate how environmental cooperation can facilitate conflict resolution and peace-building.
Another core element of the training days involved a simulation of a UN Security Council meeting. The pupils and students took on the roles of heads of state and government and staged a council meeting examining the effects of climate change on peace and international security.
The project is supported by the Federal Environment Agency and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and implemented in cooperation with Germanwatch. The third stage of the training days will be held this winter in Berlin.
For further details, go to:
http://www.krium.de (available in German only)
http://ecc-exhibition.org
http://ecc-platform.org