Gender-Sensitivity in Natural Resource Management in Cote d'Ivoire and Sudan
Publisher: Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
Author(s): Adrienne Stork, Cassidy Travis, and Silja Halle
Date: 2015
Topics: Economic Recovery, Gender, Governance, Livelihoods, Programming
Countries: Cote d'Ivoire, Sudan
Over the past decade, a wide body of scholarship has emerged on the relationship between violent conflict and natural resources. As this research unequivocally demonstrates, inequitable rights and access to natural resources are a significant contributing factor to many of the most protracted conflicts in the world today, including those in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Darfur region of Sudan, as well as the brutal civil wars that have wracked countries like Cˆote d’Ivoire, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. With many fragile states now tackling additional shocks and stresses associated with climate change—including scarcity of shared resources, such as water and food insecurity—sustainable and inclusive natural resource management has gained prominence as a vital aspect of peacebuilding.