Countries recovering from conflicts face economic and institutional
devastation - of vital infrastructure such as schools, factories,
communication networks, roads, railways, and water systems, as well
as diminished human resources, a very weak legal structure and
governmental institutions. In this context, policymakers are faced
with the task of creating an integrated and comprehensive approach
to post-conflict reconstruction with a view to sustainable economic
development, political stability and peace consolidation. This
volume critically examines the various approaches to encouraging
and regulating foreign investment in post-conflict countries. From
the perspectives of both the foreign investor and the host country,
it suggests how policymakers in post-conflict countries can design
a foreign investment strategy that brings real and meaningful
economic development as part of the wider peace-building process.
FDI in post-conflict countries is discussed from different
methodological perspectives, including comparative law and
comparative politics, based on case studies of Afghanistan, Rwanda,
DRC, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Colombia, Angola and Mozambique.
_______________________________ *Virtus C. Igbokwe was an in-house
counsel at Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited,
Port Harcourt in the early 90s. He obtained his LL.B from the
University of Benin, Nigeria; LL.M from the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and a PhD in foreign investment
arbitration from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University,
Toronto, Canada. His research and writing interests are foreign
investment arbitration, alternative dispute resolution and
international business transactions. He is widely published in
these areas. He is a member of Nigeria and Ontario Bars. *Nicholas
Turner is Academic Programme Associate in the United Nations
University's Institute for Sustainability and Peace in Tokyo. He
holds an MA in international relations from the University of Kent
in the UK, and previously worked for local government and charities
there, as well as for Qinetiq Ltd on a Defence Training Review for
the UK Armed Forces. He lectures at Aoyama Gakuin University and
Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan. His research interests lie in
human rights and ethics, focusing on just war theory, the
responsibility to protect, and non-state actors in military
conflict - including private military companies. His publications
include World Religions and Norms of War (co-edited with Gregory M.
Reichberg and Vesselin Popovski, United Nations University Press,
2009). *Obijiofor Aginam is Academic Programme Officer and Director
of Studies in the United Nations University's Institute for
Sustainability and Peace in Tokyo. Before joining the United
Nations, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Law at Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada. In 1999-2001, he was Global Health
Leadership Fellow and Legal Officer at the World Health
Organization headquarters, Geneva. Dr. Aginam has held numerous
research fellowships including the Social Science Research Council
(SSRC) of New York Fellow on Global Security and Cooperation, and
Fellow of the 21st Century Trust, U.K. He has been a visiting
professor at universities in Costa Rica, Italy, South Africa, and
Nigeria, and a recipient of the competitive research grant of the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
He holds law degrees from Nigeria, Master of Laws from Queen's
University at Kingston, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of
British Columbia. He is the author of numerous academic
publications including Global Health Governance: International Law
and Public Health in a Divided World (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 2005).
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