Dr Juneseo Hwang

Dr Juneseo Hwang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sungkonghoe University, South Korea. As an activist scholar, he has been active in the fields of environmental peacebuilding, green criminology, and human rights studies. His broader academic and research interests encompass ecological justice, green crime, rights of nature, transboundary conservation, and security sector reform. His current research agenda explores how the law of ecocide is reshaping the landscape of environmental politics and movements conditioned within green capitalism. He has long supported abolitionist pacifism and green disarmament. Prior to joining Sungkonghoe University, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability" at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published several papers and books on environmental peacebuilding, ecocide, the rights of nature, green transitional justice, the illegal wildlife trade, and green militarism. He collaborates with GRG on the “Safeguarding Succulents” project. 

Degrees:

• PhD Politics, Queen's University Belfast 
• MA Peace Studies, University of Bradford 
• BA Sociology Sungkonghoe University