Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Edited by Carl Bruch, Wm. Carroll Muffett, and Sandra Nichols

Foreword by Former President Oscar Arias, Costa Rica

 

Natural resources and post-conflict governance: Building a sustainable peace

Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute (USA)
Wm. Carroll Muffett (USA)
Sandra Nichols, Environmental Law Institute (USA)

PART 1: FRAMEWORKS FOR PEACE

Introduction

Reducing the risk of conflict recurrence: The relevance of natural resource management

Christian Webersik, University of Agder (Germany)
Marc Levy, Columbia University (USA)

Stepping Stones to Peace? Natural Resource Provisions in Peace Agreements

Simon Mason, Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
Pilar Ramirez Gröbli, Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
Damiano Sguaitamatti, Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)

Considerations for determining when to include natural resources in peace agreements ending internal armed conflicts

Marcia A. Dawes, UN Department of Political Affairs (Chile)

Peacebuilding through natural resource management: The UN Peacebuilding Commission’s first five years

Matti Lehtonen, United Nations Environment Programme (Finland)

Preparing for Peace: A Case Study of Darfur, Sudan

Margie Buchanan-Smith, United Nations Environment Programme (UK)
Brendan Bromwich, United Nations Environment Programme (UK)

PART 2: PEACEKEEPERS, THE MILITARY, AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Introduction

 

Environmental experiences and developments in United Nations peacekeeping operations

Sophie Ravier, UN Department of Field Support (France)
Anne-Cécile Vialle, United Nations Environment Program (France)
Russ Doran, United Nations Department of Field Support (Australia)
John Stokes, Environmental Law Institute (USA)

Crime, Credibility, and Effective Peacekeeping: Lessons from the Field

Annica Waleij, Swedish Defense Research Agency (Sweden)

Environmental Stewardship in Peace Operations: The Role of the Military

Annica Waleij, Swedish Defense Research Agency (Sweden)
Timothy G. Bosetti, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USA)
Russ Doran, United Nations Department of Field Support (Australia)
Birgitta Liljedahl, Swedish Defense Research Agency (Sweden)

Taking the Gun out of Extraction: UN Responses to the Role of Natural Resources in Conflicts

Mark Taylor, Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies (Canada)
Mike Davis, Global Witness (UK)

Military-to-military cooperation on the environment and natural disasters: Engagement for peacebuilding*

Geoff Dabelko, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (USA)
Will Rogers, Center for a New American Security (USA)

Civil-military coordination and cooperation in peacebuilding and natural resource management: An enabling framework, challenges, and incremental progress

Melanne Andromecca Civic, National Defense University (USA)

PART 3: GOOD GOVERNANCE

Introduction

 

Burma’s cease-fire regime: Two decades of unaccountable natural resource exploitation

Kirk Talbott , Environmental Law Institute (USA)
Yuki Akimoto, Burma Information Network (Japan)
Katrina Cuskelly, Environmental Law Institute (Australia)

Taming predatory elites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Regulation of property rights to adjust incentives and improve economic performance in the mining sector

Nicholas Garrett, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

Process and substance: Environmental law in post-conflict peacebuilding

Sandra Nichols, Environmental Law Institute (USA)
Mishkat Al-Moumin, Former Minister of Environment (Iraq)

Post-conflict environmental governance: Lessons from Rwanda

Roy Brooke, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Canada)
Richard Matthew, University of California Irvine (USA)

Corruption and natural resources in post-conflict transition

Christine Cheng, University of Oxford (Canada)
Dominik Zaum, University of Reading (Germany)

Stopping the Plundering of Natural Resources for Sustainable Peace in Côte d'Ivoire

Michel Yoboue, Publish What You Pay (Ivory Coast)

Sartor resartus: Liberian concession reviews and the prospects for effective internationalized solutions

K.W. James Rochow, Trust for Lead Poisoning Prevention (USA)

Social benefits in the Liberian forestry sector: An experiment in post-conflict institution building for resilience

John Waugh (USA)
James Murombezi, United Nations Development Program

Preventing violent conflict over natural resources: Lessons from an early action fund

Juan Dumas, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (Argentina)

PART 4: LOCAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS

Introduction

 

Legal Pluralism in Post-Conflict Environments: Problem or Opportunity for Natural Resource Management?

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, International Food Policy Research Institute (USA)
Rajendra Pradhan, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Nepal)

The Role of Conservation in Promoting Stability and Security in At-Risk Communities

Peter Zahler, World Conservation Society (United States)
David Wilkie, World Conservation Society (United States)
Michael Painter, World Conservation Society (United States)
J. Carter Ingram, World Conservation Society (United States)

Integrating gender into post-conflict natural resource management

Njeri Karuru, University of Nairobi (Kenya)
Louise Yeung, Environmental Law Institute (United States)

Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding in Colombia

Juan Mayr Maldonado, Former Minister of Environment of Colombia (Colombia)
Luisz Olmedo Martínez, United Nations Development Programme (Colombia)

PART 5: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Introduction

 

Building Momentum and Constituencies for Peace: The Role of Natural Resources in Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

Emily E. Harwell, Natural Capital Advisors (Canada)

Peace through justice: International tribunals and accountability for wartime environmental wrongs

Anne-Cecile Vialle, United Nations Environment Programme (France)
Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute (USA)
Reinhold Gallmetzer, International Criminal Court (Italy)
Akiva Fishman, Environmental Law Institute (U.S.A)

Legal Liability for Environmental Damage: The United Nations Compensation Commission and the 1990-1991 Gulf War

Cymie Payne, University of California-Berkeley (USA)

Reflections on the United Nations Compensation Commission experience

Lalanath de Silva, World Resources Institute (Sri Lanka)

PART 6: CONFIDENCE BUILDING

Introduction

 

Environmental governance and peacebuilding in post-conflict Central America: Lessons from the Central American Commission for Environment and Development

Matthew Wilburn King, UPsidEO (USA)
Marco Antonio González, Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Dasarrollo (CCAD) (Nicaragua)
Mauricio Castro Salazar, Fundecooperación para el Desarrollo Sostenible (El Salvador)
Carlos Manuel Roderiguez, Conservation International (Costa Rica)

Promoting transboundary environmental cooperation in Central Asia: The Environment and Security Initiative in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Saba Nordström, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Sweden/Finland/Nepal)

The Peru and Ecuador Peace Park: One Decade after the Peace Settlement

Yolanda Kakabadse, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (Ecuador)
Jorge Caillaux, Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (Peru)
Juan Dumas, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (Argentina)

Transboundary Collaboration in the Greater Virunga Landscape: From Gorilla Conservation to Conflict-Sensitive Transboundary Landscape Management

Johannes Refisch, United Nations Environment Programme (Germany)
Johann Jenson, United Nations Environment Programme (Canada)

PART 7: INTEGRATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES INTO OTHER POST-CONFLICT PRIORITIES

Introduction

 

Consolidating Peace through the "Aceh Green" Strategy

Sadaf Lakhani, United Nations Development Program (UK)

Natural Resource Management and Post-Conflict Settings: Programmatic Evolution in a Humanitarian and Development Agency

Jim Jarvie, Mercy Corps (UK)

Mainstreaming natural resources into post-conflict humanitarian and development action

Judy Oglethorpe, World Wildlife Fund US (UK)
Anita Van Breda, World Wildlife Fund US (USA)
Leah Kintner, World Wildlife Fund US (USA)
Shubash Lohani, World Wildlife Fund US (Nepal)
Owen Williams, World Wildlife Fund US (USA)

Mitigating Natural Resource Conflicts through Development Projects: Some Lessons from World Bank Experience in Nigeria

Sandra Ruckstuhl, World Bank (U.S.A)

Natural Resources and Peacebuilding: The Role of the Private Sector

Diana Klein, International Alert (Israel)
Ulrike Joras, International Alert (Germany)

PART 8: LESSONS LEARNED

Fueling conflict or facilitating peace: Lessons in post-conflict governance and natural resource management

Sandra Nichols, Environmental Law Institute (USA)
Wm. Carroll Muffett (USA)
Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute (USA)

 

*denotes contributions supported by the Center for Global Partnership (CGP) of the Japan Foundation. See http://www.eli.org/Program_Areas/SPCSD/index.cfm.