Dear GEP community, I am reaching out to encourage you to submit nominations for some of four awards from the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. The Al-Moumin Award and three newly created awards will be given at our inaugural conference this Fall from October 23-25, 2019 at UC Irvine. Our *deadline for nominations is April 30, 2019 *for the Al-Moumin Award, the Environmental Peacebuilding Research Award, and the Award for Environmental Peacebuilding in Practice. We will also give an award for the Best Student Paper in Environmental Peacebuilding, with a deadline of August 20, 2019. Please visit our Awards <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__environmentalpeacebuilding.org_2019-2Dconference_awards_&d=DwMF-g&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=XlhwLx1_BcJgq2V_HKZeBQG5tFkbzuXmH9soV1vAVZ4&m=f6xBA4WccB3_vWAUjihteYPj-6e7xEhIln5Tb8myzOE&s=tBtSiQzAQUT4bGO1knJ4jJUGOU3wOLlDI79B8lw8qcM&e=> page for details on the awards and to submit nominations.
You can direct any questions to awa...@environmentalpeacebuilding.org. *Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding* *The award and lecture recognize leading thinkers who are shaping the field of environmental peacebuilding, which aims to improve environmental and natural resource management to prevent, end, and recover from armed conflict. The award and lecture are named after Dr. Mishkat Al-Moumin, Iraq’s first Minister of Environment, human rights and environmental lawyer, and an advocate for women’s rights. This will be the 6**th** Award (for previous Al-Moumin laureates, see **here* <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__environmentalpeacebuilding.org_events_al-2Dmoumin-2Dlectures_-23here&d=DwMF-g&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=XlhwLx1_BcJgq2V_HKZeBQG5tFkbzuXmH9soV1vAVZ4&m=f6xBA4WccB3_vWAUjihteYPj-6e7xEhIln5Tb8myzOE&s=sNa8owdGQxpbDTBu9NLm6b5AmR1JS-GE74No8Qq2GPI&e=>*). This award is co-sponsored with American University’s School of International Service, UN Environment, and the Environmental Law Institute.* *The Awards Committee welcomes nominations for the Al-Moumin Award until April 30, 2019. The nomination should include a description of the basis for the nomination, including evidence of impact, and may include supporting materials.* *Environmental Peacebuilding Research Award* *The Environmental Peacebuilding Research Award recognizes a recent outstanding research contribution that has made a significant impact in the field of environmental peacebuilding. Such contributions can include impactful books, refereed papers, and research-based reports. The contribution must have been copyrighted after 2014. We will accept nominations for publications authored by multiple authors, and publications in languages other than English.* *The Awards Committee welcomes nominations for Environmental Peacebuilding Research Award until April 30, 2019. The nomination should include the contribution itself (the paper, report, or access to the book) and provide qualitative and/or quantitative evidence of impact. Recipients must have a faculty position within an established post-secondary education institution or comparable position at a think tank.* *Award for Environmental Peacebuilding in Practice* *The Award for Environmental Peacebuilding in Practice recognizes exceptional practical work of an individual or organization involved in environmental peacebuilding. This may include, for example, the promotion of peace through cooperation around environmental challenges; the prevention, assessment, or remediation of environmental impacts from armed conflicts; and the management of natural resources to prevent or end conflicts.* *The Awards Committee welcomes nominations until April 30, 2019. The nomination should include a description of the basis for the nomination, including evidence of impact, and may include supporting materials.* *Best Student Paper in Environmental Peacebuilding* *The Best Student Paper in Environmental Peacebuilding recognizes the best paper presented by a graduate or undergraduate student at the International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding for that year.* *Consideration will be given to papers written while the author was enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student. Papers may have multiple authors, but only papers with exclusively students as authors will be considered. Papers presented at panels or at the poster session are eligible for consideration.* *The Awards Committee welcomes nominations for this award until August 20, 2019. The nomination must include the nominated paper in PDF form.* With many thanks! Erika Weinthal Erika Weinthal Lee Hill Snowdon Professor of Environmental Policy Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University E-mail: weint...@duke.edu https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/weinthal Co-Editor, Global Environmental Politics http://www.mitpressjournals.org/gep -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
