UN Sanctions: Natural Resources
Publisher: UN Security Council
Date: 2015
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance, Renewable Resources
UN Sanctions: Natural Resources, is a follow-up to Security Council Report’s last research report on sanctions published in November 2013, UN Sanctions. This report provides a historical and institutional context for understanding UN natural resource sanctions, analyses ten current sanctions regimes that have or have had natural resource-related measures (or natural resourcerelated conflict dynamics), comparatively assesses sanctions design and implementation, critically examines common assumptions regarding links between natural resources and conflict, analyses political dynamics among Council members and other actors, and suggests policy options.
Like its predecessor, the intent of this report is to make a constructive contribution to an ongoing dialogue regarding UN sanctions among a diverse set of stakeholders, including Council members. It is hoped that the analyses throughout UN Sanctions: Natural Resources may further stimulate this critical debate.