Payame Noor University Journals of Environmental Education and Sustainable Development 2322-3057 13 1 2024 09 22 Examining the Role of Education in the Context of Green International Criminal Policy Approaches Examining the Role of Education in the Context of Green International Criminal Policy Approaches 91 102 11219 10.30473/ee.2024.68614.2657 FA Amin Hajivand Ph.d. student of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Seyed Hossein Hosseini Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Abdolreza Javan Jafari Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Journal Article 2023 07 20 Today, it is accepted in the international community that environmental threats also endanger international peace and security. The United Nations, as the most important global organization responsible for international peace and security, has begun to draw up an internationalized criminal policy by approving binding documents, guidance documents, etc. In the realm of global criminal policy, one of the areas that can be studied scientifically is the role of "education" towards the environment. This research, using a descriptive-analytical method, has reached the important result that the education of activists and legal system professionals in the field of the environment holds a higher position than education aimed only at raising awareness and instilling morality in societies. The green international criminal policy is a set of measures and actions taken by the United Nations as the most important international actor towards environmental protection. In the internationalized criminal policy, which can be categorized into two approaches—proactive and reactive—there is a need for training both citizens to manage preventive proactive criminal policy (using social prevention methods and green media tools, making environmental law lessons compulsory for all disciplines) and the judicial system to manage the reactive criminal system (employing green-trained officers, increasing the number of special officers, providing continuous specialized training for them, and maximizing the use of judges with postgraduate education in environmental law, energy law, etc.). Iran's legal system also faces serious challenges in some of these areas, which, by addressing these education-oriented challenges, can help to confront and combat anti-green criminals. Today, it is accepted in the international community that environmental threats also endanger international peace and security. The United Nations, as the most important global organization responsible for international peace and security, has begun to draw up an internationalized criminal policy by approving binding documents, guidance documents, etc. In the realm of global criminal policy, one of the areas that can be studied scientifically is the role of "education" towards the environment. This research, using a descriptive-analytical method, has reached the important result that the education of activists and legal system professionals in the field of the environment holds a higher position than education aimed only at raising awareness and instilling morality in societies. The green international criminal policy is a set of measures and actions taken by the United Nations as the most important international actor towards environmental protection. In the internationalized criminal policy, which can be categorized into two approaches—proactive and reactive—there is a need for training both citizens to manage preventive proactive criminal policy (using social prevention methods and green media tools, making environmental law lessons compulsory for all disciplines) and the judicial system to manage the reactive criminal system (employing green-trained officers, increasing the number of special officers, providing continuous specialized training for them, and maximizing the use of judges with postgraduate education in environmental law, energy law, etc.). Iran's legal system also faces serious challenges in some of these areas, which, by addressing these education-oriented challenges, can help to confront and combat anti-green criminals. https://ee.journals.pnu.ac.ir/article_11219_5c112fccc934c033266148e0aaf95610.pdf