Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Governance After Armed Conflict

Features two in-depth case studies of natural resource governance in post-conflict Liberia and Sierra Leone

Provides a robust explanation for why peacebuilding interventions related to natural resources often fail to meet expectations Contends that governing natural resources for peace must work to enhance people's human security

Autorentext
Michael D. Beevers is Assistant Professor of Environmental and International Studies at Dickinson College, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. International Peacebuilding: Origins, Development and Strategies.- 3. Natural Resources, Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding.- 4. From Settlement and State Consolidation to Civil War and Conflict Timber.- 5. International Intervention and Post-Conflict Forest Governance.- 6. Colonialization and One-Party Rule to Civil War and Conflict Diamonds.- 7. International Intervention to Govern Diamonds and Minerals.- 8. The Limits of Securing and Marketizing Natural Resources and a Way Forward.