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Governing the Gift of Nature: The links between Governance, Conflict and Natural Resources

The link between natural resources (diamonds, gold, cocoa, coltan, timber, and oil) and civil wars gained increased attention in the past decade. The conflicts in e.g. Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone were largely studied in the context of the 'Resource curse' paradigm. In 2007, the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) initiated a research project to test the idea that the way in which natural resources are governed determines their impact on the intensity of civil wars. Resource governance is understood as, on the one side: the management and regulations of the production process (including mitigating negative impacts) and on the other side: the redistribution of the revenues from the resources exploitation.

This parallel session invites participants to a discussion on the various aspects of 'resource governance' and provides cases on local governance issues from Zambia and Indonesia. The panel will assist identifying gaps in existing research and look into policy recommendations for supporting viable ways of resource governance that contribute to post-conflict reconstruction and development.

Chair:

Wolf-Christian Paes
Senior researcher
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
Germany

Speakers:

Anneke Galama
International Coordinator
Fatal Transactions
Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA)
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Presentation: The role of civil society and its efforts in breaking the linkages between conflict and natural resources.

Morten Boas
Senior Researcher (Ph.D)
Fafo - Institute for Applied International Studies
Oslo
Norway
Presentation: Cocoa and the Conflict in Cote d' Ivoire

Dr. John Lungu
Professor Economics
Copperbelt University
Kitwe
Zambia

Jolien Schure
Researcher
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
Germany

Organizer:

Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC)
An der Elisabethkirche 25
53113 Bonn
Germany

More information on this topic can be found here: http://www.resource-conflict-monitor.org and here: http://www.bicc.de/publications/concept_papers/ressourcen_und_konflikte/research_paper.php

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