Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Governance After Armed Conflict: Sierra Leone

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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.

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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. Natural resource governance  and peacebuilding must go beyond narrow debates about securitization and marketization, and instead be a catalyst for trust–building and cooperation that has a local focus, and pursues an inclusive agenda that not only serves the cause of peace, but the cause of people.

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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-

Author Biography

Michael D. Beevers is Assistant Professor of Environmental and International Studies at Dickinson College, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. International Peacebuilding: Origins, Development and Strategies.- 3. Natural Resources, Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding.- 4. From Settlement and State Consolidation to Civil War and "Conflict Timber".- 5. International Intervention and Post-Conflict Forest Governance.- 6. Colonialization and One-Party Rule to Civil War and "Conflict Diamonds".- 7. International Intervention to Govern Diamonds and Minerals.- 8. The Limits of Securing and Marketizing Natural Resources and a Way Forward.

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Features two in-depth case studies of natural resource governance in post-conflict Liberia and Sierra Leone Provides a robust explanation for why peacebuilding interventions related to natural resources often fail to meet expectations Contends that governing natural resources for peace must work to enhance people's human security

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Features two in-depth case studies of natural resource governance in post-conflict Liberia and Sierra Leone Provides a robust explanation for why peacebuilding interventions related to natural resources often fail to meet expectations Contends that governing natural resources for peace must work to enhance people's human security

Details ISBN3319631659 Author Michael D. Beevers ISBN-10 3319631659 ISBN-13 9783319631653 Format Hardcover Edition 1st Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle Sierra Leone and Liberia Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Year 2018 Pages 225 DEWEY 333.709664 Publication Date 2018-07-24 Short Title Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Governance after Armed Conflict Language English UK Release Date 2018-07-24 Illustrations 2 Illustrations, color; XIII, 225 p. 2 illus. in color. Edited by Alfredo Cuzzocrea Birth 1974 Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Position journalist Qualifications S. J. Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2019 Alternative 9783030096861 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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