Richard (Drew) Marcantonio, assistant professor of environment, peace and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs and Kellogg Faculty Fellow, has authored an article, Regenerative production as a vehicle for environmental peacebuilding? An exploratory case from Uganda, for the Peace News website.
The article looks at environmental change as a method of peacebuilding and the factors that are most important for calibrating peace practices and sustainable interventions. Working with the Bethany Land Institute in Uganda, Marcantonio and his team explored the potential for regenerative production to be a vehicle for sustainable peacebuilding and ecosystem revitalization.
Marcantonio cites regenerative agriculture as a pathway for sustainable development that could contribute to peacebuilding efforts, while addressing the challenges that would come alongside it. Although these challenges complicate the answer, more evidence is needed to evaluate the circumstances under which regenerative agriculture can be installed as a method of peacebuilding.
Marcantonio is a former Kellogg Doctoral Affiliate and became a Kellogg Faculty Fellow in 2023 when he joined the faculty at Notre Dame. He is also affiliated with the Keough School's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His research focuses on regenerative and durable enterprise, environmental management and policy, environmental and other violence, peacebuilding, and Integral Human Ecology.