'Nature Knows No Boundaries': The Role of Nature Conservation in Peacebuilding.
Humanity is facing a biodiversity crisis. To solve environmental problems, we bring people from Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority to the same table. Conservation efforts are beneficial for all communities and facilitate constructive dialog across divides in conflict zones. This pleads for the integration of nature conservation into peacebuilding interventions.
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: alexandre.roulin@unil.ch.
Alexandre
A
Roulin
Amman Center for Peace and Development, Amman, Jordan.
Mansour
M
Abu Rashid
Nofit-36001, Israel.
Baruch
B
Spiegel
Department of Evolution and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Motti
M
Charter
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Amélie N
AN
Dreiss
Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Yossi
Y
Leshem
D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D007557:Israel; D007597:Jordan