Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The presence of natural resources in conflict zones has been an influential aspect of many armed conflicts.Natural resources have shaped belligerents' objectives for using armed force, provided the means to fight, and integrated conflict areas into global markets.This CCDP Issue Brief explores the opportunities for peace mediation provided by the presence of natural resources and income sharing arrangements and suggests several reasons why these dimensions are important: Natural resources are central to understanding many armed conflicts because they W influence the motives and mobilization of state and non-state armed groups.While mostly associated with the outbreak and duration of armed conflict, natural resources are also important for conflict de-escalation and termination.Capital and technology intensive natural resources can provide incentives for conflict W termination because they cannot be fully commercialized during an ongoing armed conflict.Natural resources such as oil and gas therefore provide an opportunity for conflict resolution.They can be used to construct cooperative relationships and transitional pacts between parties through income sharing arrangements.Income sharing from natural resources addresses the ends and means of a past dispute, W and creates new visions of future livelihood opportunities and post-conflict economic orders.To be an effective mediation instrument, income sharing arrangements should clearly W define what is to be shared and how this will be done.Such arrangements should also include diagnostic and monitoring procedures on the prospects, value and distribution of natural resource wealth, while remaining flexible in allowing income sharing to occur without an agreement on resource ownership.This CCDP Issue Brief is one of a three-part series on guidelines for mediators of peace processes.Part of a multi-year research project, it aims to introduce income sharing arrangements as an economic instrument in peace processes, identify opportunities and risks for mediation practice, and propose questions for the planning and management of peace processes. WHow will economic data be presented to account for inflows and outflows?What is the role of civil society in performing checks and balances on revenue transparency and disbursement of income from natural resources?
Author: Wennmann, Achim
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6959061968
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