IUCN WCEL Environmental Security and Conflict Law Specialist Group

Karen Hulme is a professor of law at the University of Essex, UK, and researches on issues related to the protection of the environment during crises, notably during armed conflict and post conflict, as well as environmental human rights. Karen engages with the work of the civil society organisation, the Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS), and with the International Committee of the Red Cross on issues related to protection of the environment during armed conflict. Karen has a range of scholarly publications covering topics such as armed conflict, security, environmental human rights and specific weapons, as well as focusing on issues related to climate change, biodiversity and oceans.

Karen is Chair of the WCEL Specialist Group on Environmental Security and Conflict Law. Our group has a wide remit in relation to threats to the environment in times of crises, such as during armed conflict and in the aftermath of crisis and conflict, as well as from broader security threats, such as those posed by the impacts of climate change, migration and unsustainable development.

Daniëlla Dam-de Jong is Associate professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. She has written and advised extensively on the interconnections between sustainable development and international peace and security. Her monograph International Law and Governance of Natural Resources in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations (CUP, 2015) has received a research prize by the Foundation Praemium Erasmianum. Daniëlla is a member of the Dutch Advisory Committee on Public International Law (CAVV). Her key interests relate to environmental peacebuilding and the human rights and environmental implications of the energy transition.