Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Governance After Armed Conflict: Sierra Leone and Liberia
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Author: Michael D. Beevers
Publisher: Peace Review
Topics: Natural resources, environmental peacebuilding, climat / Conflict resolution, conflict transformation, conflict settlement / Security sector reform and governance
Year of publication: 2019
Country: Liberia
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10402659.2019.1800949?needAccess=true
Resume: This book argues that a set of persuasive narratives about the links between natural resource, armed conflict and peacebuilding have strongly influenced the natural resource interventions pursued by international peacebuilders. The author shows how international peacebuilders active in Liberia and Sierra Leone pursued a collective strategy to transform “conflict resources” into “peace resources” vis-à-vis a policy agenda that promoted “securitization” and “marketization” of natural resources. However, the exclusive focus on securitization and marketization have been counterproductive for peacebuilding since these interventions render invisible issues connected to land ownership, environmental protection and sustainable livelihoods and mirror pre-war governing arrangements in which corruption, exclusion and exploitation took root.
Author: Michael D. Beevers
Publisher: Peace Review
Topics: Natural resources, environmental peacebuilding, climat / Conflict resolution, conflict transformation, conflict settlement / Security sector reform and governance
Year of publication: 2019
Country: Liberia
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10402659.2019.1800949?needAccess=true
Resume: This book argues that a set of persuasive narratives about the links between natural resource, armed conflict and peacebuilding have strongly influenced the natural resource interventions pursued by international peacebuilders. The author shows how international peacebuilders active in Liberia and Sierra Leone pursued a collective strategy to transform “conflict resources” into “peace resources” vis-à-vis a policy agenda that promoted “securitization” and “marketization” of natural resources. However, the exclusive focus on securitization and marketization have been counterproductive for peacebuilding since these interventions render invisible issues connected to land ownership, environmental protection and sustainable livelihoods and mirror pre-war governing arrangements in which corruption, exclusion and exploitation took root.