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For most post-conflict countries, the transition to peace is
daunting. In countries with high-value natural resources -
including oil, gas, diamonds, other minerals, and timber -the
stakes are unusually high and peacebuilding is especially
challenging. Resource-rich post-conflict countries face both unique
problems and opportunities. They enter peacebuilding with an
advantage that distinguishes them from other war-torn societies:
access to natural resources that can yield substantial revenues for
alleviating poverty, compensating victims, creating jobs, and
rebuilding the country and the economy. Evidence shows, however,
that this opportunity is often wasted. Resource-rich countries do
not have a better record in sustaining peace. In fact,
resource-related conflicts are more likely to relapse. Focusing on
the relationship between high-value natural resources and
peacebuilding in post-conflict settings, this book identifies
opportunities and strategies for converting resource revenues to a
peaceful future. Its thirty chapters draw on the experiences of
forty-one researchers and practitioners - as well as the broader
literature - and cover a range of key issues, including resource
extraction, revenue sharing and allocation, and institution
building. The book provides a concise theoretical and practical
framework that policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and
students can use to understand and address the complex interplay
between the management of high-value resources and peace.
High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is
part of a global initiative led by the Environmental Law Institute
(ELI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the
University of Tokyo, and McGill University to identify and analyze
lessons in natural resource management and post-conflict
peacebuilding.
For most post-conflict countries, the transition to peace is
daunting. In countries with high-value natural resources -
including oil, gas, diamonds, other minerals, and timber -the
stakes are unusually high and peacebuilding is especially
challenging. Resource-rich post-conflict countries face both unique
problems and opportunities. They enter peacebuilding with an
advantage that distinguishes them from other war-torn societies:
access to natural resources that can yield substantial revenues for
alleviating poverty, compensating victims, creating jobs, and
rebuilding the country and the economy. Evidence shows, however,
that this opportunity is often wasted. Resource-rich countries do
not have a better record in sustaining peace. In fact,
resource-related conflicts are more likely to relapse. Focusing on
the relationship between high-value natural resources and
peacebuilding in post-conflict settings, this book identifies
opportunities and strategies for converting resource revenues to a
peaceful future. Its thirty chapters draw on the experiences of
forty-one researchers and practitioners - as well as the broader
literature - and cover a range of key issues, including resource
extraction, revenue sharing and allocation, and institution
building. The book provides a concise theoretical and practical
framework that policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and
students can use to understand and address the complex interplay
between the management of high-value resources and peace.
High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is
part of a global initiative led by the Environmental Law Institute
(ELI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the
University of Tokyo, and McGill University to identify and analyze
lessons in natural resource management and post-conflict
peacebuilding. The project has generated six edited books of case
studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy
makers, and researchers. Other books in the series address land;
water; livelihoods; assessing and restoring natural resources; and
governance.
The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta
has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and
security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and
politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta
region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as
well as the ways the crises spawned by the political economy of oil
and contradictions within Nigeria's ethnic politics have
contributed to the morphing of initially poorly coordinated,
largely non-violent protests into a pan-Delta insurgency.
Approaching the issue from a number of perspectives, the book
offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis available of
the varied dimensions of the conflict. Combining empirically-based
and analytic chapters, it attempts to explain the causes of the
escalation in violence, the various actors, levels and dynamics
involved, and the policy challenges faced with regard to conflict
management/resolution and the options for peace. It also examines
the role of oil as a commodity of global strategic significance,
addressing the relationship between oil, energy security and
development in the Niger Delta.
The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta
has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and
security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and
politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta
region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as
well as the ways the crises spawned by the political economy of oil
and contradictions within Nigeria's ethnic politics have
contributed to the morphing of initially poorly coordinated,
largely non-violent protests into a pan-Delta insurgency.
Approaching the issue from a number of perspectives, the book
offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis available of
the varied dimensions of the conflict. Combining empirically-based
and analytic chapters, it attempts to explain the causes of the
escalation in violence, the various actors, levels and dynamics
involved, and the policy challenges faced with regard to conflict
management/resolution and the options for peace. It also examines
the role of oil as a commodity of global strategic significance,
addressing the relationship between oil, energy security and
development in the Niger Delta.
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