Foliage and fighting: Forest resources and the onset, duration, and location of civil war

Rustad, Siri Aas; Rød, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Wenche; Gleditsch, Nils Petter

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.09.004

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“…Research on the causal links between competition over natural resources and violent conflict (Carius and Lietzmann 1999;Homer-Dixon 1999;Le Billon 2001;Le Billon and Springer 2007;Rustad et al 2008;Welsch 2008;Rustad and Lujala 2012) has focused largely on high-value extractive resources such as oil, gems, other minerals, and timber. By contrast, conflict over the renewable natural resources that underpin rural livelihoods in agricultural landscapesthe subsistence use of land, water, fisheries, and forests -has received far less attention from the environmental security community, though this trend is now shifting (Kok et al 2009;UNEP 2009;UNDP 2010;Kapur et al 2012;Young and Goldman 2013).…”

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Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework

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Where access to renewable natural resources essential to rural livelihoods is highly contested, improving cooperation in resource management is an important element in strategies for peacebuilding and conflict prevention. While researchers have made advances in assessing the role of environmental resources as a causal factor in civil conflict, analysis of the positive potential of collective natural resource management efforts to reduce broader conflict is less developed. Addressing this need, we present a framework on collective action, conflict prevention, and social-ecological resilience, linking local stakeholder dynamics to the broader institutional and governance context. Accounting for both formal and informal relationships of power and influence, as well as values and stakeholder perceptions alongside material interests, the framework aims to provide insight into the problem of (re)building legitimacy of commonpool resource management institutions in conflict-sensitive environments. We outline its application in stakeholder-based problem assessment and planning, participatory monitoring and evaluation, and multi-case comparative analysis. 184Blake D. Ratner et al.

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Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework

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May³

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“…Rustad, Rod, Larsen and Gleditsch (2008) 13 found that access to an international border, which is located far from the political center is more likely to affect the internal conflict. Moreover, often rebels seek protection in a neighboring country making it almost impossible for the government's troops to operate.…”

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Visualizing the Influence of Geography, Oil and Geopolitics on Civil Wars in the Arab World: A Novel Application of Self-Organizing Maps and Duration Models

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2014

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“…Nor do we focus on the kind of dispute and acrimony that often happens within groups in our definition of conflict, as we consider it part of the normal, even salutary, functioning of collective action institutions (Van Laerhoven and Andersson 2013). Research on the role of natural resources in contributing to the risk of conflict and the potential for cooperation among states has been more thoroughly reviewed elsewhere (Carius and Lietzmann 1999;De Jong, Donovan, and Abe 2007;Giordano, Giordano, and Wolf 2005;Le Billon 2001Lujala 2010;Ross 2004;Rustad et al 2008;Welsch 2008). While acknowledging that subnational conflict and instability can contribute to interstate conflict, particularly in border zones or where transboundary resources are concerned, our focus instead is on the role of natural resources in local livelihoods, and how this is manifested in the dynamics of conflict and cooperation.…”

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Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management

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The food security crisis, international “land grabs,” and new markets for environmental services have drawn renewed attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant empirical research has focused on diagnosing the links between natural resource competition and (violent) conflict, much less has focused on the dynamics of whether and how resource competition can be transformed to strengthen social-ecological resilience and mitigate conflict. Focusing on this latter theme, this review synthesizes evidence from a wide range of cases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Building on an analytical framework designed to enable such comparative analysis; we present several propositions about the dynamics of conflict and collective action in natural resource management, and a series of recommendations for action.Working paperNon-PRIFPRI1; CAPRi; CRP2EPTD; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM

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Foliage and fighting: Forest resources and the onset, duration, and location of civil war

Cited by 62 publications

References 30 publications

Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework

Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework

Visualizing the Influence of Geography, Oil and Geopolitics on Civil Wars in the Arab World: A Novel Application of Self-Organizing Maps and Duration Models

Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management

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