War on the Environment

2025/6/12 10:00-12:00 A1618

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Anna Malavisi

主持人：刘静

To address the climate crisis there is an urgent need to better understand the impact that war has and has had on the environment, but also challenge a current political ideology that too easily justifies the waging of war as the only solution to conflict. Many will say that humanity has always engaged in war, so that it’s futile to think that we could ever abolish it. I want to challenge this notion to the extent that, too often, countries resort to war without considering other alternatives, such as non-violent ones. The fact that war itself is a major contributor to the climate crisis should be reason enough for nation-states to rethink strategies of protection, security, and related matters. In this paper, I further the analysis by offering a historical and theoretical perspective on war, then move to a contemporary one arguing that the dominant political ideology turns to war too easily. The impact of war has both immediate and long-term effects. Immediate effects are obvious: complete destruction of human and non-human lives and habitats. I offer three examples to demonstrate the long-term effects of three different geographical locations: Africa, Sardinia, and Palestine.

报告人简介：Anna Malavisi is a philosopher, development ethicist, and peace activist. She is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy and World Perspectives at Western Connecticut State University. She received her PhD from Michigan State University. Her research interests include practical and global ethics, social and political thought, feminist philosophy/epistemology, and environmental philosophy. Anna has 16 years of experience working in international development in Latin America, primarily in Bolivia. Anna has several publications on development ethics and related issues including a book titled: Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice: Rethinking the Theory and Practice.