{"id":595,"date":"2025-06-03T09:16:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/?p=595"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:33:14","slug":"francesca-fassbander-environmental-peacebuilding-and-environmental-warfare-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/2025\/06\/03\/francesca-fassbander-environmental-peacebuilding-and-environmental-warfare-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Fassbander | Environmental Peacebuilding and Environmental Warfare in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/06\/francesca-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-598\" style=\"width:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/06\/francesca-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/06\/francesca-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/files\/2025\/06\/francesca-1.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Francesca\u2019s research agenda explores both environmental peacebuilding and environmental warfare in the Middle East. Her first project, in collaboration with Professor Udi Sommer, expanded the framework of environmental peacebuilding to cases not typically covered in the field, such as the UAE and Israel, which collaborate on environmental projects involving both the public and private sectors. This work was published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.worlddev.2024.106555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Development<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inss.org.il\/strategic_assessment\/the-uae-and-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Strategic Assessment<\/a><\/em>. Currently, she investigates the cultural, psychological, and gendered drivers behind environmental warfare. Drawing on soldier testimonies and spatial analysis of environmental destruction in Gaza, Colombia, and Ukraine, her work bridges environmental studies, security analysis, and conflict transformation, aiming to inform future peacebuilding efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, Francesca investigates the cultural, psychological, and gendered drivers behind environmental warfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phd-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/udisommer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}