High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Edited by Päivi Lujala and Siri Aas Rustad

Foreword by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia

Introduction - High-value natural resources: A blessing or curse for peace?

Päivi Lujala, Norwegian University of Science and Technology ( Finland)
Siri Aas Rustad , Peace Research Institute Oslo ( Norway)

PART 1: EXTRACTION AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES

Introduction

 

Bankrupting Peace Spoilers: Can Peacekeepers Curtail Belligerents' Access to Resource Revenues?

Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia (France)

Mitigating Risks and Realizing Opportunities: Environmental and Social Standards for Foreign Direct Investment in High-Value Natural Resources

Jill Shankleman, JSL Consulting (UK)

Contract Renegotiation and Asset Recovery in Post-Conflict Settings

Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia (France)

Reopening and Developing Mines in Post-Conflict Situations: The Challenge of Company-Community Relations

Volker Boege, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (Germany)
Daniel Franks, University of Queensland (Australia)

Diamonds in War, Diamonds for Peace: Diamond Sector Management and Kimberlite Mining in Sierra Leone

Kazumi Kawamoto, University of Tokyo (Japan)

Assigned Corporate Social Responsibility in a Rentier State: The Case of Angola

Arne Wiig, Chr. Michelsen Institute (Norway)
Ivar Kolstad, Chr. Michelsen Institute (Norway)

PART 2: COMMODITY AND REVENUE TRACKING

Introduction

 

The Kimberley Process at Ten: Reflections on a Decade of Efforts to End the Trade in Conflict Diamonds

J. Andrew Grant, Queen's University (Canada)

The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme: A Model Negotiation?

Clive Wright, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK)

The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme: The Primary Safeguard for the Diamond Industry

Andrew Bone, DeBeers (UK)

A More Formal Engagement: A Constructive Critique of Certification as a Means of Preventing Conflict and Building Peace

Harrison Mitchell, Resource Consulting Services (UK)

Addressing the Roots of Liberia's Conflict through the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Eddie Rich, EITI International Secretariat (UK)
T. Negbalee Warner, Liberian EITI Secretariat (Liberia)

Excluding Illegal Timber and Improving Forest Governance: The European Union's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade Initiative

Duncan Brack, Chatham House (UK)

PART 3: REVENUE DISTRIBUTION

Introduction

 

Sharing Natural Resource Wealth During War-to-Peace Transitions

Achim Wennmann, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland)

Horizontal Inequality, Decentralizing the Distribution of Natural Resource Revenues, and Peace

Michael L. Ross, University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
Päivi Lujala, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Finland)
Siri Aas Rustad, Peace Research Institute Oslo (Norway)

The Diamond Area Community Development Fund: Micropolitics and Community-Led Development in Postwar Sierra Leone

Roy Maconachie, University of Bath (Canada)

Direct Distribution of Natural Resource Revenues as a Policy for Peacebuilding

Martin E. Sandbu, The Financial Times and the Wharton School of Business (Norway)

PART 4: ALLOCATION AND INSTITUTION BUILDING

Introduction

 

High-Value Natural Resources, Development and Conflict: Channels of Causation

Paul Collier, University of Oxford (UK)
Anke Hoeffler, University of Oxford (Germany)

Petroleum Blues: The Political Economy of Resources and Conflict in Chad

John A. Gould, Colorado College (USA)
Matthew S. Winters, University of Illinois (USA)

Leveraging high-value natural resources to restore the rule of law: The role of the Liberia Forest Initiative in Liberia’s transition to stability

Stephanie L. Altman, Special Envoy to the European Commission on Foreign Law Enforcement and Trade (USA)
Sandra S. Nichols, Environmental Law Institute (USA)
John T. Woods, Forest Development Authority (Liberia)

Forest Resources and Peacebuilding: Preliminary Lessons from Liberia and Sierra Leone

Michael D. Beevers, University of Maryland (USA)

An Inescapable Curse? Resource Management, Violent Conflict, and Peacebuilding in the Niger Delta

Annegret Mähler, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg (Germany)

The High Cost of Ambiguity: Conflict, Violence, and the Legal Framework for Managing Oil in Iraq

Mishkat Al Moumin, Former Minister of Environment (Iraq)

The Capitalist Civil Peace: Some Theory and Empirical Evidence

Indra de Soysa, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Sri Lanka)

PART 5: LIVELIHOODS

Introduction

 

Counternarcotics Efforts and Afghan Poppy Farmers: Finding the Right Approach *

David M. Catarious Jr., Center for Naval Analysis (USA)
Alison Lawlor Russell, Center for Naval Analysis (USA)

The Janus Nature of Opium Poppy: A View from the Field

Adam Pain, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (UK)

Peace through sustainable forest management in Asia: The USAID Forest Conflict Initiative

Jennifer Wallace, University of Maryland (USA)
Ken Conca, American University (USA)

Women in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Karen Hayes, PACT
Rachel Perks, PACT

Forest User Groups and Peacebuilding in Nepal

Tina Sanio (Germany)
Binod Chapagain (Nepal)

Lurking Beneath the Surface: Oil, Environment Degradation and Armed Conflict in Sudan

Luke A. Patey, Danish Institute for International Studies (Canada)

PART 6: LESSONS LEARNED

Building or Spoiling the Peace? Lessons from the Management of High-Value Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Settings

Siri Aas Rustad, Peace Research Institute Oslo (Norway)
Päivi Lujala, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Finland)
Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia (France)

 

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