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Peacebuilding and natural resource governance after armed conflict: Sierra Leone and Liberia

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This text 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 'securitisation' and 'marketisation' of natural resources.

However, the exclusive focus on securitisation and marketisation 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.

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Palgrave Macmillan
3319631667 / 9783319631660
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
12/07/2018
England
English
221 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
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