Management of spatially extensive natural resources in postwar contexts: working with the peace process |
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Authors: | Jon Unruh Julia Bailey |
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Institution: | (1) McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
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Abstract: | While extensively occurring natural resources play a fundamental role in the survival and recovery of postwar populations,
their management is not presently part of the operational priorities in a peace process. Dependence on naturally occurring
food, fuel, water, secure locations, and products that can be obtained and sold quickly for dislocated, war-weary populations
is a primary approach to postwar livelihoods. The peace process, however, focuses on the logistical and institutional aspects
of security, demobilization, reintegration and humanitarian efforts. The result is profound degradation of the spatially extensive
resources necessary for longer-term recovery. The primary reason for the inattention to resource degradation in a peace process
is that conventional conservation approaches do not fit with the priorities of a peace process or attend to the immediate
needs of a postwar population; designed as they are for stable, peaceful settings. This article focuses on the need to derive
postwar natural resource management approaches which can work with the in-place priorities of a peace process. Four such approaches
are suggested, with successful examples from specific countries.
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Keywords: | Postwar Natural resource management Armed conflict Peace process Conservation |
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