Indigenous Peacebuilding and Environmental Restorative Justice

Abstract

This chapter explores the interconnection between Indigenous peoples peacebuilding processes and environmental restorative justice. Environmental restorative justice challenges anthropological conceptualization of peacebuilding processes by considering how the environment can be considered a victim of conflicts and specific harms of colonialism, land expropriation and large-scale environmental degradation alongside human individuals and communities. The chapter will argue how Indigenous cosmovision can inform non-anthropocentric peacebuilding processes by virtue of the consideration of other-than-human notion of victimhood and an orientation towards healing and environmental restoration