Wealth-sharing and Natural Resources

  • 2015 | Author: United Nations Department of Political Affairs and United Nations Development Programme

    Natural Resources and Conflict: A Guide for Mediation Practitioners

    The guide aims to inform mediators and stakeholders addressing conflicts over natural resources — whether those disagreements are violent, have the potential to turn violent, or are part of a larger political struggle, including within a peace process. It draws on the field experiences of mediators and mediation experts. It also features lessons learned from UNEP’s work on environmental diplomacy in different conflict affected countries, with a particular focus on how to use impartial technical knowledge to equalize stakeholder information in a mediation process. Helping to identify paths towards resolution through mediation and third-party involvement, the Guide can be applied for localized and transboundary conflicts, as well as natural resource disputes that arise in the context of broader peace negotiations. 

  • 2013 | Author: Simon J. A. Mason and Dorothea Blank (CSS, ETH Zurich)

    Mediating Water Use Conflicts in Peace Processes

    The aim of this document is to help mediators working on peace processes to address water issues. The authors argue that the mediation of water conflicts differs somewhat from the mediation of other conflicts, and peace mediators should be aware of this if they are to deal adequately with water-related issues in complex political peace processes. The guidance describes the general principles to keep in mind when mediating water conflicts, looks at the mediation of water conflicts related to local communities, and focuses on the mediation in the context of national-level peace negotiations.

  • 2012 | Author: The United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action

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

    This Guidance Note focuses on the role of natural resources, and in particular Extractive Industries (EI), in triggering, escalating or sustaining violent conflict. The paper identifies the main drivers of EI-related conflicts, proposes a framework for designing intervention strategies and identifies six key opportunities for country-level interventions to manage and prevent these conflicts. Throughout the Guidance Note, case studies are used to highlight key challenges and response strategies.

  • 2012 | Author: The United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action

    ‘Land and Conflict’ - Toolkit and Guidance for Preventing and Managing Land and Natural Resources Conflict

    This Guidance Note presents a framework to understand the relationship between land, conflict and international action at different stages of conflict, and includes broad strategies to guide international support at different stages of the conflict cycle. The guidance draws on upon recent international experience, including from UN peacekeeping and peace operations, to develop a systematic approach to address land grievances and conflicts.

  • 2012 | Author: The United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action

    ‘Renewable Resources and Conflict’ - Toolkit and Guidance for Preventing and Managing Land and Natural Resources Conflict

    This Guidance Note focuses on drivers of conflict over renewable resources. It recommends strategies and interventions that can be undertaken at the country-level to prevent conflicts over renewable resources, and to promote strategies for conflict sensitivity in natural resource management and in the design of development projects. The guidance provides a total of 50 conflict prevention interventions for specific resource sectors such as water, pastures, forests, and fisheries. Throughout this Guidance Note, case studies from UN and EU operations are used to highlight key challenges, risks and response strategies. 

  • 2012 | Author: The United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action

    ‘Strengthening Capacity for Conflict-Sensitive Natural Resource Management- Toolkit and Guidance for Preventing and Managing Land and Natural...

    This Guidance Note identifies the challenges associated with capacity-building for Natural Resources Management (NRM) that arise in conflict-affected and fragile states. It attempts to help further understanding on what needs to be done in order to integrate conflict prevention and post-conflict recovery concerns into capacity-building efforts in the NRM sector (i.e. the skills, institutions, practices, and relationships among state and civil society actors needed to manage and prevent violent conflicts over these vital resources). 

  • 2009 | Author: N.Haysom, S.Kane (HD Center)

    Negotiating Natural Resources for Peace: Ownership, Control and Wealth-sharing

    This article seeks to diagnose and provide conceptual clarity on the broad categories of issues important in the negotiation and management of natural resources in these types of situations, whether they arise in federal states or in unitary states facing local demands for autonomy and control over ‘their’ local resources.

  • 2007 | Author: UN-Habitat

    How to Develop a Pro-poor Land Policy: Process, Guide and Lessons

    This guide outlines the process for developing a land policy that helps correct the disadvantages that poor people often suffer in many areas of land policy. Section 5 focuses specially on addressing potential conflicts emerging from the process; and section 6 provides advice on “managing the politics.”

  • 2005 | Author: Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

    Negotiation and Mediation Techniques for Natural Resource Management

    This guide looks at how negotiation and consensus building can be used to manage conflict and build collaboration. The guide provides practical, step-by-step advice on working with many different stakeholders to reach mutually satisfactory agreements in collaborative natural resources management.

  • 2005 | Author: M. Humphreys

    Natural Resources, Conflict and Conflict Resolution: Uncovering the Mechanisms

    This paper focuses on the different mechanisms that may link resources and conflict. The paper catalogues a large range of rival possible mechanisms that could explain the relationship between natural resources and war onset and duration, highlights a set of techniques that may be used to identify these mechanisms, and begins to employ these techniques to distinguish between rival accounts of the resource-conflict linkages.

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