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

• Main Author: Beevers, Michael D. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Security, International.; Peace.; Africa-Politics and government.; Natural resources.; Environmental policy.; International Security Studies.; Conflict Studies.; Peace Studies.; African Politics.; Natural Resources.; Environmental Policy.

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 S...

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.