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The Ecology of War and Peace
Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law

Author: Eliana Cusato, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Date Published: September 2021
availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108837521

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The connection between ecology and conflict has been the object of extensive study by political scientists and economists. From the contribution of natural resource 'scarcity' to violent unrest and armed conflict; to resource 'abundance' as an incentive for initiating and prolonging armed struggles; to dysfunctional resource management and environmental degradation as obstacles to peacebuilding, this literature has exerted a huge influence upon academic discussions and policy developments. While international law is often invoked as the solution to the socio-environmental challenges faced by conflict-affected countries, its relationship with the ecology of war and peace remains undertheorised. Drawing upon environmental justice perspectives and other theoretical traditions, the book unpacks and problematizes some of the assumptions that underlie the legal field. Through an analysis of the practice of international courts, the UN Security Council, and Truth Commissions, it shows how international law silences and even normalizes forms of structural and slow environmental violence.
- Includes interdisciplinary perspectives to refine understandings of how international law conceptualises and regulates 'the environment' during and after conflict
- Provides a systemic and comprehensive treatment of the topic beyond sub-disciplinary specialisations
- Offers a critical reading of legal developments and academic debates by engaging with both the theory and practice of international law
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'This book lucidly analyses how international law regulates and often exacerbates the 'slow violence' of ecological damage. Eliana Cusato unravels the interconnectedness of conflict and environmental destruction, exploring the tensions between the values of militarism and warfare on the one hand and ecological sustainability on the other. The book is startling and important, calling for a reframing of the relationship between conflict and the natural world.' Hilary Charlesworth, Melbourne Law School
'Eliana Cusato's illuminating book demonstrates the impoverished and limited ways in which existing international law protects the environment in conflict. In revealing and exploring these inadequacies, Cusato provides us with a compelling account of the work that needs to be done if we are to address the many challenges arising from the complex relationship between the environment and conflict. Deeply researched, richly inter-disciplinary in its approach and written with impressive clarity, this is a valuable and urgently needed book.' Antony Anghie, National University of Singapore and University of Utah
'Dr Cusato is cleared eyed about the complexity and difficulties involved in formulating a legal regime when some of the belligerents in intra-state conflicts are generally not constrained by formal rules of international law. The book offers profound inter-disciplinary insights and is candid in its conclusion that ultimately, here, lawyers don't have all the answers.' Phoebe Okowa, Professor of Public International Law, Queen Mary, University of London
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Product details
- Date Published: September 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108837521
- length: 312 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.59kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: international law, violence and visibility
Part I: Concepts, Theories, and Debates:
2. The ecology of war and peace: unpacking the assumptions
3. Origins and evolutions of legal debates on the environment-conflict 'nexus'
Part II: The Practice of International Law:
4. War crimes tribunals and the International Court of Justice: nature between property protection and humanitarian concerns
5. The United Nations Security Council: from 'conflict resources' to climate change as a 'threat' to international peace and security
6. Truth commissions: conflicts over extractive resources and the battle for different views of nature
7. Conclusion: towards a political ecology of international law.
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Eliana Cusato, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Eliana Cusato is a Marie Curie post-doctoral Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the National University of Singapore. Previously, she was a lecturer at Essex Law School. She serves on the editorial board of the Asian Journal of International Law.