High-value natural resources and post-conflict peacebuilding /

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Imprint:New York, NY : Earthscan, 2012.
Description:xvi, 688 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Peacebuilding and natural resources series
Peacebuilding and natural resources series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8539768
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Other authors / contributors:Aas Rustad, Siri Camilla.
Lujala, Päivi.
ISBN:9781849712309 (pbk : alk. paper)
1849712301 (pbk : alk. paper)
9780203878484 (ebk.)
0203878485 (ebk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures and tables
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • High-value natural resources: A blessing or a curse for peace?
  • Part 1. Extraction and extractive industries
  • Introduction
  • Bankrupting peace spoilers: Can peacekeepers curtail belligerents' access to resource revenues?
  • Mitigating risks and realizing opportunities: Environmental and social standards for foreign direct investment in high-value natural resources
  • Contract renegotiation and asset recovery in post-conflict settings
  • Reopening and developing mines in post-conflict settings: The challenge of company-community relations
  • Diamonds in war, diamonds for peace: Diamond sector management and kimberlite mining in Sierra Leone
  • Assigned corporate social responsibility in a rentier state: The case of Angola
  • 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
  • The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme: A model negotiation?
  • The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme: The primary safeguard for the diamond industry
  • A more formal engagement: A constructive critique of certification as a means of preventing conflict and building peace
  • Addressing the roots of Liberia's conflict through the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
  • Excluding illegal timber and improving forest governance: The European Union's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade initiative
  • Part 3. Revenue distribution
  • Introduction
  • Sharing natural resource wealth during war-to-peace transitions
  • Horizontal inequality, decentralizing the distribution of natural resource revenues, and peace
  • The Diamond Area Community Development Fund: Micropolitics and community-led development in post-war Sierra Leone
  • Direct distribution of natural resource revenues as a policy for peacebuilding
  • Part 4. Allocation and institution building
  • Introduction
  • High-value natural resources, development, and conflict: Channels of causation
  • Petroleum blues: The political economy of resources and conflict in Chad
  • Leaveraging high-value natural resources to restore the rule of law: The role of the Liberia Forest Initiative in Liberia's transition to stability
  • Forest resources and peacebuilding: Preliminary lessons from Liberia and Sierra Leone
  • An inescapable curse? Resource management, violent conflict, and peacebuilding in the Niger Delta
  • The legal framework for managing oil in post-conflict Iraq: A pattern of abuse and violence over natural resources
  • The capitalist civil peace: Some theory and empirical evidence
  • Part 5. Livelihoods
  • Introduction
  • Counternarcotics efforts and Afghan poppy farmers: Finding the right approach
  • The Janus nature of opium poppy: A view from the field
  • Peace through sustainable forest management in Asia: The USAID Forest Conflict Intiative
  • Women in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Forest user groups and peacebuilding in Nepal
  • Lurking beneath the surface: Oil, environmental degradation, and armed conflict in Sudan
  • Part 6. Lessons learned
  • Building or spoiling peace? Lessons from the management of high-value natural resources
  • Appendices
  • List of abbreviations
  • Author biographies
  • Table of contents for Post-conflict peace building and natural resource management
  • Index