About
Wim Zwijnenburg is a Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader for the Dutch peace organisation PAX. His work focuses on emerging military technologies, and the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts. For their work on environment and conflict PAX received the 2017 UNEP/OCHA Green Star Award, and the 2023 Environmental Peacebuilding Association’s Al-Moumin Award He undertakes research and training of local partners on environmental monitoring in conflicted areas and engages on UN and humanitarian advocacy on environment, peace and security. He is a contributor to the open-source investigative journalism collective Bellingcat, exploring identification and monitoring of environmental issues with open-source information and remote sensing data. He holds a Master in International Development Studies from the Radboud University Nijmegen and received a Philosophy scholarship from the Thomas More Foundation.