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Toolkit and Guidance for Preventing and Managing Land and Natural Resources Conflict - Extractive Industries and Conflict

This UN report focuses on extractive industries and conflict. Sections 2.5 (Inadequate institutional and legal framework), 4.5 (Incorporating high-value natural resources into peace processes), and 4.6 (Strengthening the institutional and legal framework) discusses the relationship between extractive industries, constitutions, and conflict. For example, in extreme cases conflicts dealing with natural resources can lead to a constitutional crisis. More importantly, however is the role constitution-building plays in preventing conflicts regarding natural resources.&ampnbsp

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Keywords  Natural Resources,  United Nations/UN,  United Nations Development Programme/UNDP