Post Conflict Peacebuilding And Natural Resource Management

Author : Päivi Lujala,Siri Aas Rustad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136536694

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High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding by Päivi Lujala,Siri Aas Rustad Pdf

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.

Author : Carl Bruch,Carroll Muffett,Sandra S. Nichols
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 1138680966

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Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-conflict Peacebuilding by Carl Bruch,Carroll Muffett,Sandra S. Nichols Pdf

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Helen Young,Lisa Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136536489

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Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding by Helen Young,Lisa Goldman Pdf

Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive and recover. This book explores how natural resource management initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding. Case studies and analyses identify lessons and opportunities for the more effective design of interventions to support the livelihoods that depend on natural resources – from land to agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and protected areas. The book also explores larger questions about how to structure livelihoods assistance as part of a coherent, integrated approach to post-conflict redevelopment. Livelihoods and Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high value resources, land, water, assessing and restoring natural resources, and governance.

Author : David Jensen,Stephen Colnon Lonergan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849712347

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Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-conflict Peacebuilding by David Jensen,Stephen Colnon Lonergan Pdf

Violent conflict invariably disrupts people's livelihoods, the natural environment, social and political institutions, and the economy at all levels. Restoring peace and rebuilding society can be arduous, but immediate action at the cessation of conflict is essential. This book examines how conflicts degrade natural resources and addresses the consequences for human health, livelihoods, and security. This book provides a concise theoretical and practical framework for policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and students.

Author : Carl Bruch,Carroll Muffett,Sandra S. Nichols
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136272073

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Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding by Carl Bruch,Carroll Muffett,Sandra S. Nichols Pdf

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires good governance. Natural resources are essential to sustaining people and peace in post-conflict countries, but governance failures often jeopardize such efforts. This book examines the theory, practice, and often surprising realities of post-conflict governance, natural resource management, and peacebuilding in fifty conflict-affected countries and territories. It includes thirty-nine chapters written by more than seventy researchers, diplomats, military personnel, and practitioners from governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations. The book highlights the mutually reinforcing relationship between natural resource management and good governance. Natural resource management is crucial to rebuilding governance and the rule of law, combating corruption, improving transparency and accountability, engaging disenfranchised populations, and building confidence after conflict. At the same time, good governance is essential for ensuring that natural resource management can meet immediate needs for post-conflict stability and development, while simultaneously laying the foundation for a sustainable peace. Drawing on analyses of the close relationship between governance and natural resource management, the book explores lessons from past conflicts and ongoing reconstruction efforts; illustrates how those lessons may be applied to the formulation and implementation of more effective governance initiatives; and presents an emerging theoretical and practical framework for policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students. Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high-value resources, land, water, livelihoods, and assessing and restoring natural resources.

Author : David Jensen,Stephen Lonergan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135918804

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Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources In Post-Conflict Peacebuilding by David Jensen,Stephen Lonergan Pdf

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly support livelihoods. Only recently, however, have the assessment, harnessing, and restoration of the natural resource base become essential components of postconflict peacebuilding. This book, by thirty-five authors, examines the experiences of more than twenty countries and territories in assessing post-conflict environmental damage and natural resource degradation and their implications for human health, livelihoods, and security. The book also illustrates how an understanding of both the risks and opportunities associated with natural resources can help decision makers manage natural resources in ways that create jobs, sustain livelihoods, and contribute to economic recovery and reconciliation, without creating new grievances or significant environmental degradation. Finally, the book offers lessons from the remediation of environmental hot spots, restoration of damaged ecosystems, and reconstruction of the environmental services and infrastructure necessary for a sustainable peace. Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions by practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books address highvalue resources, land, water, livelihoods, and governance.

Author : Jon Unruh,Rhodri Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136536632

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Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding by Jon Unruh,Rhodri Williams Pdf

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority, the disintegration of property rights and institutions, the territorial effect of battlefield gains and losses, and population displacement. In the wake of violent conflict, reconstitution of a viable land-rights system is crucial: an effective post-conflict land policy can foster economic recovery, help restore the rule of law, and strengthen political stability. But the reestablishment of land ownership, land use, and access rights for individuals and communities is often complicated and problematic, and poor land policies can lead to renewed tensions. In twenty-one chapters by twenty-five authors, this book considers experiences with, and approaches to, post-conflict land issues in seventeen countries and in varied social and geographic settings. Highlighting key concepts that are important for understanding how to address land rights in the wake of armed conflict, the book provides a theoretical and practical framework for policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students. Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. 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 high-value resources, water, livelihoods, assessing and restoring resources, and governance.

Author : Helen Young,Lisa Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136536496

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Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding by Helen Young,Lisa Goldman Pdf

Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive and recover. This book explores how natural resource management initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding. Case studies and analyses identify lessons and opportunities for the more effective design of interventions to support the livelihoods that depend on natural resources – from land to agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and protected areas. The book also explores larger questions about how to structure livelihoods assistance as part of a coherent, integrated approach to post-conflict redevelopment. Livelihoods and Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high value resources, land, water, assessing and restoring natural resources, and governance.

Author : Erika Weinthal,Jessica J. Troell,Mikiyasu Nakayama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136536564

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Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding by Erika Weinthal,Jessica J. Troell,Mikiyasu Nakayama Pdf

As a basic human need, the provision of safe water is among the highest priorities of government and humanitarian interventions during post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding. In the aftermath of war, water, sanitation, and infrastructure play a critical role in the recovery of livelihoods and economic development. Moreover, shared waters have great potential for interstate cooperation, assisting to rebuild trust following conflict and to prevent a return to conflict. This volume draws on studies from around the world to create a framework for understanding how water resources decisions and activities can facilitate or undermine peacebuilding in a post-conflict setting.

Author : Mikiyasu Nakayama,Jessica Troell,Erika Weinthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN : 1136536515

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Water and Post-conflict Peacebuilding by Mikiyasu Nakayama,Jessica Troell,Erika Weinthal Pdf

Author : Ken Conca,Geoffrey D. Dabelko
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 080187193X

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Environmental Peacemaking by Ken Conca,Geoffrey D. Dabelko Pdf

Eight contributions written by professors of political science, government, and politics as well as researchers and program directors for environmental change, energy, and security projects provide insight into the process of environmental peacemaking, based on their experiences in a variety of international regions. An initial chapter makes a case for the process; successive chapters address the Baltic, South Asia, the Aral Sea basin, southern Africa, the Caspian Sea, and the US-Mexican border. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Richard A. Matthew,Oli Brown,United Nations Environment Programme,David Jensen
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9280729578

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From Conflict to Peacebuilding by Richard A. Matthew,Oli Brown,United Nations Environment Programme,David Jensen Pdf

Today’s changing security landscape requires a radical shift in the way the international community engages in conflict management. This report by the United nations Environment Programme aims to review the latest knowledge and field experience on the linkages between environment, conflict and peacebuilding, and to discuss the ways in which these issues can be addressed and integrated in a more coherent and systematic way by the UN, Member States and other stakeholders involved in peacebuilding interventions and conflict prevention.

Author : Daniëlla Dam-de Jong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107093836

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International Law and Governance of Natural Resources in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations by Daniëlla Dam-de Jong Pdf

An assessment of the role of international law in preventing natural resources from fuelling armed conflict and improving their governance.

Author : Carl Bruch,David Jensen,Mikiyasu Nakayama,Jon Unruh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184971245X

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Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management by Carl Bruch,David Jensen,Mikiyasu Nakayama,Jon Unruh Pdf

Post-conflict peacebuilding efforts can fail if they do not pay sufficient attention to natural resources. This six-volume addresses the gap in knowledge of what works and what does not by examining the growing literature on the topic and surveying experiences across more than forty post-conflict countries. It includes more than 130 chapters from over 200 researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

Author : Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317497110

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Land Reforms and Natural Resource Conflicts in Africa by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo Pdf

This book is a critical examination of the place and role of land in Africa, the role of land in political formation and national identification, and the land as an economic resource within both national economic development and liberal globalization. Colonial and post-colonial conflicts have been rooted in four related claims: the struggle over scarce resources, especially access to land resources; abundance of natural resources mismanaged or appropriated by both the states, local power systems and multinationals; weak or absent articulated land tenure policies, leading to speculation or hybrid policy framework; and the imperatives of the global liberalization based on the free market principles to regulate the land question and mineral appropriation issue. The actualization of these combined claims have led to conflicts among ethnic groups or between them and governments. This book is not only about conflicts, but also about local policy achievements that have been produced on the land question. It provides a critical understanding of the forces and claims related to land tenure systems, as part of the state policy and its system of governance.