Nature as Neighbour
In Laudate Si, Pope Francis encourages everyone to experience an “ecological conversion of the heart” and look with compassion and responsibility at other life around us in “our common home” on earth. This research has four streams which explore what it means to see nature as our neighbour personally, socially and politically, and how doing so may create a new richness in our social life as humans and involve new obligations of justice and peace towards the ecosystems and species with whom we share the world.
Natural Minds
Natural Minds explores our relationship to the natural world through the theory of embodied cognition and how human consciousness emerges from our embeddedness and interaction with the natural world. The project asks: how does seeing our very intellects as an extension of the natural world change our relationship to the environment and our interaction with it?”
Nature as Diplomat
Nature as Diplomat is partnering with Geneva Policy Outlook at the Graduate Institute in Geneva to explore how to recognize nature as a political subject more formally in twenty first century diplomacy and to pilot innovative ways to bring nature to the table in today’s multilateralism.
Humanitarianism 2.0
Humanitarianism 2.0 advocates for a new approach to humanitarian aid that saves humans and nature together in a new ethics of ecological humanitarianism for our era of climate crisis and nature emergency.
Nature, War and Peace
Nature, war and peace is part of an initiative at the Oxford Martin School on Environment and National Security and is exploring how nature may be damaged and weaponized in war and hybrid warfare at a time of rising conflict, and the importance of making peace with nature.