Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding [Hardcover]

Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive and recover. This book explores how natural resource management initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding.

Case studies and analyses identify lessons and opportunities for the more effective design of interventions to support the livelihoods that depend on natural resources  from land to agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and protected areas. The book also explores larger questions about how to structure livelihoods assistance as part of a coherent, integrated approach to post-conflict redevelopment.

Livelihoods and Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuildingis part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high value resources, land, water, assessing and restoring natural resources, and governance.

Foreword Jan EgelandIntroduction: Helping Post-conflict Communities Survive and Thrive Helen Young and Lisa GoldmanPart 1: Natural Resource Conflicts, Livelihoods, and Peacebuilding ApproachesIntroduction 1. Social Identity, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding Arthur Green 2. Swords into Ploughshares? Access to Natural Resources and Securing Agricultural Livelihoods in Rural Afghanistan Alan Roe 3.Forest Resources in Cambodias Transition to Peace: Lessons for Peacebuilding Srey Chanthy, Jimlƒ+