Extractive Resources
Encouraging Peace-building Through Better Natural Resource Management
2013
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Oli Brown (Chatham House)
Natural resources such as conflict diamonds and illegal timber are known to trigger and prolong armed violence. What is less discussed is the contribution that…
A U.S. Asian-Pacific Pivot Point: Burma’s Natural Resources
2013
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Kirk Talbott, John Waugh, and Douglas Batson (PRISM Vol. 4 No. 3 p.111)
Good governance, encompassing both business and human rights agendas, provides just the anchor that U.S. foreign policy needs to interface with, as opposed to intervene…
Practice note 6: Natural Resource Governance in Conflict-Affected Contexts
2010
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Holger Grundel (International Alert)
This practice note offers options for economic development planners and practitioners for promoting accountable and conflict-sensitive governance of natural resource wealth. The presence of significant…
Linking Environment and Conflict Prevention: The Role of the United Nations.
2008
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Mason, S., A. Muller, A. Schnabel, R. Alluri, and C. Schmid (ETH Zurich and Swisspeace)
The relevance of how environmental factors influence violent conflicts tends to be either exaggerated or underestimated. Moreover, climate change and oil are often emphasized as…
Managing Natural Resource Wealth
2006
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Jill Shankleman
This report analyzes the particular challenges of stabilization and reconstruction missions in countries rich in hydrocarbons and minerals and provides lessons learned from the recent…
The Political Ecology of War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts
2001
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Philippe Le Billion
Throughout the 1990s, many armed groups have relied on revenues from natural resources such as oil, timber, or gems to substitute for dwindling Cold War…
Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development
2007
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Editors: Oli Brown, Mark Halle, Sonia Peña Moreno and Sebastian Winkler (IISD and IUCN)
Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur. All resonate loudly on the international stage, exposing and illustrating the intractable links among global security, war and conflict, the control over…
Equity in Extractives
2013
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Africa Progress Panel
Africa’s economies have been riding the crest of a global commodity wave that could transform the continent’s prospects. The 2013 Africa Progress Report explains how…
The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
2012
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Picador
Michael Klare
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion—a crisis that encompasses shortages of oil and coal, copper and cobalt, water and arable land.…
Plundered Nations? Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction
2011
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Editors: Paul Collier and Anthony J. Venables
he study of natural resource extraction in resource-rich countries often shows that plunder, rather than prosperity, has become the norm. Management of natural resources differs…
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
2010
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Paul Collier
Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or…
Natural Riches? Perspectives on Responsible Natural Resource Management in Conflict-Affected Countries
2013
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WEF
To meet growing global demand, natural resources are under increasing pressure. New sources have entered global markets – many of them in developing or emerging…
Resources for Peace? Managing Revenues from Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict Environments
2008
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Philippe Le Billon
In the wake of violent conflict, a key element of building a durable peace is building a state with the ability to collect and manage…
Conflict-Sensitive Business Practice: Towards the Integration of Conflict Assessment and Prevention in Extractive Industry Practice
2004
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R. Goldwyn and J. Switzer
For oil, gas and mining companies operating in areas of potential or open conflict, there are clear bottom-line and ethical drivers compelling them to manage…
Income Sharing from Natural Resources
2010
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CCDP
Achim Wennmann
The presence of natural resources in conflict zones has been an influential aspect of many armed conflicts. Natural resources have shaped belligerents’ objectives for using…
Extractive Industry Source Book
2013
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World Bank Institute
Knowledge of the oil, gas and mining industries has become a subject of acute controversy as it has become clear that their activities can bring…
Minerals and conflict
2004
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USAID
This toolkit is part of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. One area that is receiving…
Natural Resource Management in Transitional Settings
2013
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UN Development Group
Conflict stems from and is fuelled by a variety of factors. Among these, natural resource related issues figure prominently. Since 1990, at least 17 violent…
Sudan: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment
2007
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UNEP
"In January 2005, the Sudanese Government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement, putting an end to twenty-two years of continuous…
Sierra Leone: Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding Assessment
2010
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UNEP
“In Sierra Leone, the environmental causes and consequences of war have been prominent for the past 20 years. Inequitable benefits-sharing of natural resource wealth was…
Rwanda: From Post-Conflict to Environmentally Sustainable Development
2011
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UNEP
“More than a decade after the war and genocide of 1990-1994, Rwanda today is a resurgent nation that is stable, engaged in pursuing innovative reconciliation…
Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
2013
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UNEP
“This report investigates the ways in which the management of land, water, minerals, forests and drugs are linked to instability and insecurity in Afghanistan. Its…
Small Countries and Big Resources: Harnessing Natural Resources for Development in the G7+ Countries
2012
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World Bank Institute
Paul Collier
“The past decade of high commodity prices triggered a burst of investment in prospecting for natural resources. For evident reasons, the g7+ countries had previously…
Extractive Industries and Conflict
2012
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EU-UN Partnership on Land and Natural Resource Conflicts
“Conflict arises when two or more groups believe their interests are incompatible. Conflict is not in itself a negative phenomenon. Non-violent conflict can be an…
Conflict Prevention in Resource-Rich Economies
2012
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EU-UN Partnership on Land and Natural Resource Conflicts
“Natural resource exports such as oil, diamonds and copper provide opportunities to drive growth and human development. However, extraction of these commodities can also result…