The peacebuilding potential of international ocean science cooperation

A historical perspective provides a rich catalogue of examples of ocean science collaboration flourishing even in parts of the world facing a perfect storm of geopolitical tensions, overlapping and rapidly expanding ocean uses, unresolved maritime boundaries, and outright conflict. How do these collaborations emerge? How do they persist? And how can we understand their capacity to mitigate conflict? This talk will draw on environmental peacebuilding literature to suggest that such collaborations are a meaningful contribution to a more peaceful world, and will open into a discussion of how to build and foster collaboration in a polarized world.

Speaker: Robert Blasiak, Stockholm University, Sweden

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