Beatriz Arnal Calvo

I studied Philosophy long ago. I was once a humanitarian practitioner in contexts of forced displacement due to armed conflict. I am now a PhD researcher at the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton.

My research is situated at the intersections of Environmental Peacebuilding, Feminist Security Studies, Environmental Security Studies and Feminist Peace research. My main focus of attention is the gender-environmental change-peace and security nexus. I am particularly interested in the gendered discourses of climate change and peace; the emerging feminists contributions to a sustainable peace; the (lack of) overlapping between the climate change regime and the Women, Peace and Security agenda; and studies on ecocide and the rights of nature. I use feminist epistemologies and a feminist narrative approach as methodologies to better understand the everyday lived experiences of Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders (WEHRD) and artists resisting various forms of intersecting gendered violence, including militarism, climate change, extractivism and forced (im)mobilities.

I am also a member of the Women International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) UK, WILPF Spain, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPax), The Gender and Development Network (GADN) and the Peace Research Seminar (SIP).