Forests and Conflict
Publisher: USAID
Date: 2005
Topics: Land, Programming, Renewable Resources
This toolkit is par t of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. One area that is receiving increasing attention is the relationship between natural resources and violence. In many recent conflicts, valuable or scarce resources - land, water, timber, or minerals - have played a central role in both causing and sustaining violence. For example, illegal logging and "conflict timber" became a prominent feature of Liberia's civil war.