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Call for Nominations for the 2025 Al-Moumin Award

Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association would like your help in seeking nominations for the 2025 Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding. The award and lecture are named after Dr. Mishkat Al-Moumin, Iraq’s first Minister of Environment, a human rights and environmental lawyer, and an advocate for women’s rights. The award recognizes leading thinkers who are shaping the field of environmental peacebuilding. This will be the ninth Al-Moumin lecture, and it is expected to be delivered in the autumn of 2025. A complete list of past lecturers is provided below.We would like to receive all nominations by January 31, 2025. The nomination should include:

  • the nominator's name and email

  • the nominee's name, institutional affiliation and email

  • a description of the basis for the nomination, including evidence of impact (maximum 1000 words)

Supporting materials may also be submitted. Contributions in any format and language will be considered. Submissions in languages other than English are asked to provide an English translation where possible. Nominations should be sent to awards@environmentalpeacebuilding.org by January 31, 2025, with the subject line “Nomination for Al-Moumin Award.” We thank you in advance for your help with this and for supporting our recognition of leaders in environmental peacebuilding.Past laureates and lecture themes at a glance:

  • CEOBS and PAX: Environmental impacts of conflict (focus on Ukraine)

  • Patricia Gualinga: Amazon, Indigenous rights, environmental defenders

  • Nancy Lee Peluso: Resource management policy, South Asia 

  • Ken Conca and Geoff Dabelko: Promoting Environmental Peacemaking as a field

  • Ambassador Marie Jacobsson: ILC Special Rapporteur for the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict

  • Liz Alden Wily: Land grievances and rural property rights

  • Professor Jon Barnett: Climate change and security

  • Michael L. Ross: Oil as a conflict resource