Strengthening Post-Conflict Peacebuilding through Natural Resource Management

Table of Contents

VOLUME 1: 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

Buying 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)

VOLUME 2: Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (edited by Jon Unruh and Rhodri Williams)

Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University

 

Land: A foundation for peacebuilding

Jon Unruh and Rhodri Williams

PART 1: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

Introduction

 

Land Tenure and Peace Negotiations in Mindanao, Philippines

Yuri Oki, University of Tokyo (Japan)

Customary Law and Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Timor-Leste*

Naori Miyazawa, United Nations Office for Project Services (Japan)

The Abyei territorial dispute between North and South Sudan: Why has its resolution proven difficult?

Salman M. A. Salman, World Bank (Sudan)

Snow Leopards and Cadastres: Rare Sightings in Post-Conflict Afghanistan

Douglas E. Batson, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (USA)

Community Documentation of Land Tenure and its Contribution to State-Building in Afghanistan

J. David Stanfield, Terra Institute (USA)
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
M. Yasin Safar, Terra Institute (Afghanistan)
Akram Salam, Cooperation for the Reconstruction of Afghanistan (Afghanistan)

Rebuilding Peace: Land and Water Management in the Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq

Nesreen Barwari, Former Minister of Municipalities & Public Works (Iraq)

Title wave: Land Tenure and Peacebuilding in Aceh

Arthur Green, McGill University (Canada)

Beyond Land Redistribution: Lessons Learned from El Salvador's Unfulfilled Agrarian Revolution

Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque, McGill University (Canada)

Transboundary Resource Management Strategies in the Pamir Mountain Region of Tajikistan

Ian D. Hannam, University of New England (Australia)

PART 2: LAWS AND POLICIES

Introduction

 

Return of land in post-conflict Rwanda: International standards, improvisation, and the role of international humanitarian organizations

John W. Bruce, Land and Development Solutions International (USA)

Angola: Land Resources and Conflict

Allan Cain, Development Workshop (Canada)

Refugees and Legal Reform in Iraq: The Iraqi Civil Code, International Standards for the Treatment of Displaced Persons, and the Art of Attainable Solutions

Dan E. Stigall, U.S. Army Judge Advocate (USA)

Title through Possession or Position? Respect for Housing, Land, and Property Rights in Cambodia

Rhodri C. Williams, Independent Consultant (USA)

Land Conflicts and the Land Registration System of Cambodia

Manami Sekiguchi, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Naomi Hatsukano, Japan External Trade Organization (Japan)

Legal Framework and Land Issues in Muslim Mindanao

Paula Defensor Knack, The Philippine Embassy, The Hague (Philippines)

Post-Conflict Land Tenure Issues in Bosnia: Privatization and the Politics of Reintegrating the Displaced

Rhodri C. Williams, Independent Consultant (USA)

Unexplored dimensions : Islamic land systems in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iraq, and Somalia

Siraj Sait, University of East London (UK)

Customary law and community-based natural resource management in post-conflict Timor-Leste

Naori Miyazawa, United Nations Office for Project Services (Japan)

PART 3: POST-CONFLICT RETURN AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Introduction

 

Institutional Aspects of Resolving Land Disputes in Post-Conflict Societies: Some Reflections

Peter Van der Auweraert, International Organization for Migration (Belgium)

The Role of Restitution in Post-Conflict Settings

Barbara McCallin, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (France)

Land Issues in Post-Conflict Return and Recovery

Samir Elhawary, Overseas Development Institute (UK)
Sara Pantuliano, Overseas Development Institute (UK)

Rebuilding peace: Land and water management in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq

Nesreen Barwari, Former Minister of Municipalities and Public Works (Iraq)

PART 4: LESSONS LEARNED

Lessons Learned in Land Tenure and Natural Resource Management in Post-Conflict Societies

Jon Unruh, McGill University (USA/Canada)
Rhodri C. Williams, Åland Islands Peace Institute (USA)

VOLUME 3: Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (edited by Jessica Troell, Erika Weinthal, and Mikiyasu Nakayama)

Foreword by President Mikhail Gorbachev, Green Cross International

 

Shoring up peace: Water and post-conflict peacebuilding

Jessica Troell, Environmental Law Institute ( USA)
Erika Weinthal, Duke University ( USA)

PART 1: BASIC SERVICES AND HUMAN SECURITY

Introduction

 

The Role of Informal Service Providers in Post-Conflict Reconstruction and State Building

Jeremy Allouche, University of Sussex (UK)

A Tale of Two Cities: Restoring Water Services in Kabul and Monrovia

Jean-François Pinera, Médecins Sans Frontières (France)
Robert A. Reed, Loughborough University (UK)

Conflict and Collaboration for Water Resources in Angola's Post-War Cities

Allan Cain, Development Workshop (Canada)
Martin Mulenga, International Institute for Environment and Development (Zambia)

Thirsty for Peace: The Water Sector in Southern Sudan

Sam Huston, US Agency for International Development (USA)

Community water management: Experiences from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, and Liberia

Murray Burt, Tearfund (New Zealand)
Bilha Keiru, Tearfund (Kenya)

Environmental management of the Iraqi marshlands in the post-conflict period

Chizuru Aoki, United Nations Environment Programme (Japan)
Sivapragasam Kugaprasatham, United Nations Environment Programme (Sri Lanka)
Ali Al-Lami, Iraqi Marshland Project (Iraq)

PART 2: LIVELIHOODS

Lessons of Water Resource Management, From Perspectives of Irrigation Water-Use Management and Flood Control: A Case Study of Japan after World War II

Mikiko Sugiura, University of Tokyo, (Japan)
Yuka Toguchi, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Mona Funiciello, Environmental Law Institute (USA)

Refugee Rehabilitation and Transboundary Cooperation: India, Pakistan, and the Indus River System

Neda A. Zawahri, Cleveland State University (Jordan/USA)

Despite the Best Intentions? The Political Ecology of Water Resource Management in North Afghanistan

Jennifer McCarthy, Kings College London
Daanish Mustafa, Kings College London (Pakistan)

Water's Role in Security and Stabilization in Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney, US Army Corps of Engineers (USA)

PART 3: PEACE PROCESSES, COOPERATION, AND CONFIDENCE BUILDING

Introduction

 

The Jordan River Basin: A Conflict Like No Other

Munther Haddadin (Jordan)

Transboundary Cooperation in the Lower Jordan River Basin

Munqeth Mehyar, Friends of the Earth Middle East (Jordan)
Nader Khateeb, Friends of the Earth Middle East (Palestine)
Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth Middle East (Israel)
Elizabeth Ya'ari, Friends of the Earth Middle East (Israel)

The Sava River: Tranistioning to Peace in the Former Yugoslavia

Amar Colakhodzic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Marija Filipovic, Columbia University (Serbia)
Jana Kovandzic, Central European University (Serbia)
Stephen Stec, Central European University/Leiden University (USA)

Transnational Cooperation over Shared Water Resources in the South Caucusus – Reflections on USAID Interventions

Marina Vardanyan, US Agency for International Development (Armenia)
Richard Volk, US Agency for International Development (USA)

Water Security and Scarcity: Potential Destabilization in Western Afghanistan and Iranisn Sistan and Baluchestan due to Transboundary Water Conflicts

Alex Dehgan, US Agency for International Development (USA)
Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney, US Army Corps of Engineers (USA)
Mehdi Mirzaee, Islamic Azad University/Oregon State University (Iran)

Water resources in the Sudan north-south peace process and the ramifications of the secession of South Sudan

Salman M. A. Salman, World Bank (Sudan)

PART 4: LEGAL FRAMEWORKS

Introduction

 

Management of Waters in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina: Policy, Legal, and Institutional Aspects

Slavko Bogdanovic, University of Novi Sad

The Right to Water and Sanitation in Post-Conflict Legal Mechanisms: An Emerging Regime?

Mara Tignino, George Washington University (Switzerland)

PART 5: LESSONS LEARNED

Harnessing water management for more effective peacebuilding: Lessons learned

Jessica Troell, Environmental Law Institute (USA)
Erika Weinthal, Duke University (USA)

VOLUME 4: Livelihoods, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (edited by Helen Young and Lisa Goldman)

Foreword by Jan Egeland, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and former UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

 

Managing natural resources for livelihoods: Helping post-conflict communities survive and thrive

Lisa Goldman, Tufts University (USA)
Helen Young, Environmental Law Institute ( USA)

PART 1: NATURAL RESOURCE CONFLICTS, LIVELIHOODS, AND PEACEBUILDING APPROACHES

Introduction

 

Social Identity, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding

Arthur Green, McGill University (USA)

Swords into Ploughshares? Access to Natural Resources and Securing Agricultural Livelihoods in Rural Afghanistan

Alan Roe (Australia)

Forest Resources in Cambodia's Transition to Peace: Lessons for Peacebuilding

Srey Chanthy (Cambodia)
Jim Schweithelm, Associates for Rural Development (USA)

Post-Tsunami Aceh: Successful Peacemaking, Uncertain Peacebuilding

Michael Renner, Worldwatch Institute (Germany)

Manufacturing Peace in "No Man's Land": Livestock and Access to Natural Resources in the Karimojong Cluster of Kenya and Uganda

Jeremy Lind, University of Sussex (UK)

Resolving Natural Resource Conflicts to Help Prevent War: A Case from Afghanistan

Liz Alden Wily

PART 2: INNOVATIVE LIVELIHOODS APPROACHES IN POST-CONFLICT SETTINGS

Introduction

 

The opportunities and challenges of protected areas for post-conflict peacebuilding

Carol Westrik, Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO ( Netherlands)

A peace park in the Balkans: Cross-border cooperation and livelihood creation through coordinated environmental conservation

J. Todd Walters, International Peace Parks Expeditions (USA)

Mountain Gorilla Ecotourism: Supporting Macroeconomic Growth and Providing Local Livelihoods

Miko Watanabe, United Nations Development Programme (Japan)
Annette Lanjouw, Arcus Foundation (Netherlands)
Eugène Rutagarama, International Gorilla Conservation Program (Rwanda)
Douglas Sharp, Environmental Law Institute (USA)

The Interface between Natural Resources and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: Enhancing Human Security in Post-Conflict Settings

Glaucia Boyer, United Nations Development Programme (Brazil/Switzerland)
Adrienne Stork, United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Environment Programme (USA)

Demobilized Combatants as Park Rangers: Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management in Gorongosa National Park

Matthew Pritchard, McGill University (Canada)

Utilizaing Alternative Livelihood Schemes to Solve Conflict Problems in Sierra Leone's Artisanal Mining Industry

Andrew Keili, CEMMATS Group (Sierra Leone)
Bocar Thiam (Guinea)

Linking Value Chains with Peacebuilding and Biodiversity: Case Studies from Asia and Latin America

Lorena Jaramillo Castro, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Ecuador)
Adrienne Stork, United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Environment Programme (USA)

PART 3: THE INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY CONTEXT

Introduction

 

Fisheries Policies and the Problem of Instituting Sustainable Management: The Case of Occupied Japan

Harry N. Scheiber, UC-Berkeley (USA)
Benjamin Jones, UC-Berkeley (USA)

Developing Capacity for Natural Resource Managament in Afghanistan: Process, Challenges, and Lessons Learned by UNEP

Belinda Bowling, United Nations Environment Programme
Asif Zaidi, United Nations Environment Programme (Pakistan)

Buidling Resilience in Rural Livelihood Systems as an Investment in Conflict Prevention

Blake Ratner, WorldFish Center (USA)

Improving Natural Resource Governance and Building Peace and Stability in Mindanao, Philippines*

Cynthia Brady, US Agency for International Development (USA)
Oliver Agoncillo, US Agency for International Development (Philippines)
Maria Zita Butardo-Turibio, US Agency for International Development-Environmental Governance Project (Philippines)
Buenaventura Dolom, US Agency for International Development-Environmental Governance Project (Philippines)
Casimiro V. Olvida, US Agency for International Development-Environmental Governance Project (Philippines)

Commerce in the Chaos: Charcoal, Bananas, Fisheries, and Conflict in Somalia

Christian Webersik, University of Agder (Germany)
Alec Crawford, International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada)

PART 4: LESSONS LEARNED

Managing natural resources for livelihoods in post-conflict societies: Lessons learned

Lisa Goldman, Environmental Law Institute (USA)
Helen Young, Tufts University (USA)

VOLUME 5: Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (edited by David Jensen and Steve Lonergan)

Foreword by Klaus Toepfer, former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme

 

Can peacebuilding succeed without environmental remediation and natural resource restoration?

David Jensen, United Nations Environment Programme (Canada)
Steve Lonergan, University of Victoria (Canada)

PART 1: POST-CONFLICT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS

Introduction

 

Evaluating the Impact of UNEP's Post-Conflict Environmental Assessments

David Jensen, United Nations Environment Programme (Canada)

Mitigating the environmental impacts of post-conflict assistance: Assessing USAID’s approach

Charles John Kelly, ProAct Network (U.S.A)

Environment and Peacebuilding in War-Torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme's Experience with Post-Conflict Assessment

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

Environmental Assessment as a Tool for Peacebuilding and Development: Initial Lessons from Capacity Building in Sierra Leone

Oli Brown, United Nations Environment Programme
Morgan Hauptfleisch, Southern African Institute for Environmental Assessment
Haddijatou Jallow, Environment Protection Agency - Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)
Peter Tarr, Southern African Institute for Environmental Assessment

Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming environmental assessment tools in the post-conflict setting

George Bouma, United Nations Development Programme (Australia)

How the Use of Economic Analysis of Environmental Degradation Can Influence Policy Processes: Experience from Rwanda

Louise Wrist Sorensen, United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Environment Programme (Denmark)

Medical and environmental intelligence in peace operations and crisis management

Birgitta Liljedahl, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Annica Waleij, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Louise Simonsson, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Christina Edlund, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Bjorn Sandstrom, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Claes Nystrom, Swedish Armed Forces (Sweden)
Sture Sundstrom, Swedish Armed Forces (Sweden)

PART 2: PLANNING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

Introduction

 

Thinking back-end: Improving post-conflict analysis through consulting, adapting to change, and scenario building

Alexander Carius, Adelphi Research (Germany)
Achim Maas, Adelphi Research (Germany)

Evaluation in post-conflict natural resource assistance: Designing for accountability and real-world consequences

Suppiramaniam Nanthikesan, United Nations Development Program (Sri Lanka)
Juha Uitto, United Nations Development Program (Finland)

Peacebuilding and adaptation to climate change

Richard Matthew, UC-Irvine (USA)
Anne Hammill, International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada)

PART 3: IDENTIFICATION AND REMEDIATION OF HIGH-RISK ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS

Introduction

 

Salting the Earth: Environmental health challenges in post-conflict reconstruction

Chad Briggs, Institute for Environmental Security (USA)
Inka Weissbecker, Harvard School of Public Health (Germany)

Remediation of polluted sites in the Balkans, Iraq, and Sierra Leone

Muralee Thummarukudy, United Nations Environment Programme (India)
Oli Brown, United Nations (UK)
Hannah Moosa (Canada)

The Risks of Depleted Uranium Contamination in Post-Conflict Countries: Findings and Lessons Learned from UNEP Field Assessments

Mario Burger, United Nations Environment Programme (Switzerland)

Linking Demining to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Cambodia*

Nao Shimoyachi-Yuzawa, Japan Institute of International Affairs (Japan)

PART 4: RESTORATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ECOSYSTEMS

Introduction

 

Restoration of Damaged Land in Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of Lebanon

Aida Tamer-Chammas, University of London (Lebanon/France)

Ecological Restoration and Peacebuilding: The Case of the Iraqi Marshes

Steve Lonergan, University of Victoria (Canada)

Haiti: Lessons Learned and Way Forward in Natural Resource Management Projects

Lucile Gingembre, United Nations Environment Programme (France)

PART 5: INFRASTRUCTURE AND RECONSTRUCTION

Addressing infrastructure needs in post-conflict reconstruction: An introduction to alternative planning approaches

P.B. Anand, University of Bradford (India)

Natural Resources, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Regional Integration: Lessons from the Marshall Plan and Other Reconstruction Efforts*

Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute (UK)
Ross Wolfarth, Columbia University (USA)
Vladislav Michalcik, American University Washington College of Law (Czech Republic)

Making Best Use of Domestic Energy Sources: Priority Production System for Coal Mining and Steel Production in Post-World War II Japan

Mikiyasu Nakayama, University of Tokyo (Japan)

Road Infrastructure Reconstruction as a Peacebuilding Priority in Afghanistan: Negative Implications for Land Rights*

Jon Unruh, McGill University (USA)
Mourad Shalaby, McGill University (Egypt/Canada)

PART 6: LESSONS LEARNED

Natural resources and post-conflict r estoration, remediation, and reconstruction: Lessons and way forward

David Jensen, United Nations Environment Programme (Canada)
Steve Lonergan, University of Victoria (Canada)

VOLUME 6: Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (edited by Carl Bruch, Wm. Carroll Muffett, and Sandra Nichols)

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.