About
Renewable Peace is a storytelling project exploring the relationship among renewable energy, energy access, and peacebuilding in a rapidly changing world.
How can renewable energy–as the world’s principal climate solution–make a difference when it comes to peace and security?
Origins of Renewable Peace
Renewable Peace developed from dialogue exploring how renewable energy can affect the conditions of peace and security around the world.
Over time, a group of partner organizations and colleagues focused on cases emerging from fragile and conflict-affected settings, where local developers were bringing extraordinary change.
Where this work is happening
The stories come from the experiences of renewable energy developers and communities in fragile and conflict-affected settings of Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan.
These stories portray ways that people in these areas are leading the world with new, scalable approaches to clean energy access and peacebuilding.
How storytelling supports the project
While analyses, policy papers, and convenings have helped build understanding of the connections between renewable energy and peace and security, over time, the stories of real people became the most powerful and important way of conveying how these dynamics work and the impacts they produce.
Collaborators
Renewable Peace is an initiative of the Stanley Center for Peace and Security and builds upon years of research and advocacy by collaborators Energy Peace Partners, the Stimson Center, and the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth.
Stanley Center
The Stanley Center for Peace and Security partners with people, organizations, and the greater global community to drive policy progress in three issue areas—mitigating climate change, avoiding the use of nuclear weapons, and preventing mass violence and atrocities. The center was created in 1956 and maintains its independence while developing forums for diverse perspectives and ideas.
Energy Peace Partners
Energy Peace Partners (EPP) is a non-profit organization that leverages renewable energy and finance solutions to promote peace in the world's most fragile regions. EPP’s innovative approach expands the existing toolkit for peace and development by extending the renewable energy revolution to some of the planet’s most vulnerable populations. EPP addresses the intersection of energy poverty, conflict risk and environmental vulnerability to demonstrate the peace dividends of clean energy.
Dickey Center at Dartmouth
The Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth educates, convenes, and empowers people to confront the world’s problems. Through informed and impactful global dialogue, experiential education, and engagement on pressing issues in international policy and diplomacy, the Dickey Center brings the world to Dartmouth and Dartmouth to the world to engage with today’s great issues.
Stimson Center
The Stimson Center promotes international security, shared prosperity, and justice through applied research and independent analysis, deep engagement, and policy innovation. For three decades, Stimson has been a leading voice on urgent global issues. As changes in power and technology usher in a challenging new era, Stimson is at the forefront: Engaging new voices, generating innovative ideas and analysis, and building solutions to promote international security, prosperity, and justice.
