Brown Bag Lunch on Minerals, Timber, and Conflict in the Congo

The ELI Armed Conflict and the Environment Program works with partners worldwide to better manage natural resources and the environment both during and after armed conflict. We strive to protect people and ecosystems by strengthening laws, policies, and institutions that:

• effectively manage the natural resources that fuel armed conflict;
• prevent, mitigate, and redress the environmental consequences of war; and
• assist post-conflict countries in the transition to peace through strengthening post-conflict peacebuilding through natural resource management.

Program News

Submission of Draft Chapters (March 2009)

Review and Strategy Meeting on Managing Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Societies: Lessons in Making the Transition to Peace (Fourth Experts' Meeting) (IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, October 2008)

Third Experts' Meeting and Joint Forum on Managing Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Societies: Lessons in Making the Transitition to Peace (Columbia University, New York City, September 2008)

Second Experts’ Meeting on Managing Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Societies (February 2008)