High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Author(s): Päivi Lujala, Siri Aas Rustad, David Jensen, Alec Crawford, Peter Whitten, Ilona Coyle, Carl Bruch

Date: 2013

This is the first in a series of policy briefs on post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resources management; it draws upon findings from High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, edited by Päivi Lujala and Siri Aas Rustad (London: Earthscan 2012). Päivi Lujala is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Siri Aas Rustad is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Department of Conditions of Violence and Peace, and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU. This policy brief was produced by Päivi Lujala; Siri Aas Rustad; David Jensen of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Alec Crawford; Peter Whitten; and Ilona Coyle, Carl Bruch, Mohammad Aslami, and Gwen Brown, of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI).