Contents: Foreword ix Acknowledgements xi 1 The international legal dimensions of environmental peacebuilding 1 Daniëlla Dam-de Jong and Britta Sjöstedt PART I INTERNATIONAL LAW AS A NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK 2 Sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding 17 Onita Das 3 The contribution of equity to environmental peacebuilding 42 Virginie Barral 4 The role of fair and equitable benefit-sharing in environmental peacebuilding 62 Elisa Morgera 5 Managing the tensions between a maximalist approach to environmental protection and anthropocentric peacebuilding 89 Jens Iverson 6 Environmental peacebuilding and environmental rule of law: Linkages, lessons, and looking forward 105 Carl Bruch and Isabelle Morley 7 Natural resources, transitional states and grand corruption 127 Naomi Roht-Arriaza PART II INTERNATIONAL LAW AS AN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 8 Environmental peacebuilding and sustaining peace: The United Nations and integrated approaches 152 Albert Martinez and David Jensen 9 The contribution of the UN Security Council to environmental peacebuilding 183 Daniëlla Dam-de Jong 10 Contribution of multilateral environmental agreements and their institutional mechanisms to environmental peacebuilding 200 Britta Sjöstedt 11 Assessing the contribution of human rights actors to environmental peacebuilding 230 Karen Hulme 12 To repair or not to repair: What are the questions? 253 Giulia Pinzauti and Merryl Lawry-White 13 Environmental peacebuilding and natural resources management: The role of international investment law 277 Ole Kristian Fauchald PART III THE WAY FORWARD – AN INTEGRATED APPROACH 14 Addressing land inequality, rehabilitation and competing uses 304 Daniëlla Dam-de Jong 15 Access to water and peacebuilding 328 Mara Tignino and Tadesse Kebebew 16 Extractive industry for sustainable development? Some reflections on the role of investment contracts in ensuring benefit sharing and community participation in natural resource governance 355 Marco Pertile and Sondra Faccio 17 Integrating gender, peace and environment: The gender dimension of environmental peacebuilding 381 Sarah Mead and Marie Jacobsson 18 Environmental peacebuilding and indigenous peoples’ rights to lands and resources 401 Bas Rombouts Index