Suraya Scheba, Faeza Meyer, Koni Benson, Meera Karunananthan, Vanessa Farr and Lesley Green

Suraya Scheba is a lecturer in the department of environmental and geographical sciences at the University of Cape Town. Faeza Meyer is a member of the African Water Commons Collective. Koni Benson is a lecturer in the department of history at the University of the Western Cape and research fellow and organiser with the Blue Planet Project. Meera Karunananthan is the director of the Blue Planet Project. Vanessa Farr is a member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Academic Network and has worked with various UN organisations on militarisation and gun violence around the globe for two decades. Lesley Green is professor of anthropology and director of Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town.