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GPW 2025: Land restoration as a pathway to peace and security

This Peace Panel demonstrated how sustainable land management and drought resilience can serve as strategic levers to address the interconnections between land degradation, human insecurity, and conflict in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS). It highlighted that land degradation was not only an environmental issue but also a driver of insecurity, displacement, and competition over scarce resources such as water, soil, and forests. Climate change further compounds these pressures creating dynamics that erode community resilience and fuel cycles of fragility and instability. Despite growing recognition of the climate–land–peace nexus, FCAS remained severely underfunded, receiving less than 10% of global climate and environmental finance—far below estimated needs. The panel spotlighted innovative approaches such as conflict-sensitive investment, blended finance, and risk-sharing mechanisms to help close this gap and unlock the peacebuilding potential of land restoration. Speakers: Utchang Kang, Programme Manager at Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Nazanine Moshiri, Senior Advisor Climate & Peace, Strategic Partnerships, Berghof Foundation, Justin Mundy Co-founder of the Mapping Pathways for Security; Chairman of SLM Partners, Chairman of Earthna Center of the Qatar Foundation at Mapping Pathways for Security (MPS), Kheira Tarif, Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Climate Change and Risk Programme, moderator: Anna Brach, Head of Human Security and Planetary Resilience at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GSCP); Organisers: Geneva Centre for Security Policy, United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification