Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Governance After Armed Conflict : Sierra Leone and Liberia

Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Governance After Armed Conflict : Sierra Leone and Liberia

Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 2019

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9783030096861
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 2019
Language: English
Number of pages: 225
Weight: 290g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 13mm