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

Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Governance After Armed Conflict: Sierra Leone and Liberia
ISBN-10
3319631667
ISBN-13
9783319631660
Category
Political Science
Pages
225
Language
English
Published
2018-07-12
Publisher
Springer
Author
Michael D. Beevers

Description

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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