Natural Resources and Violent Conflict : Options and Actions

Recent research undertaken by the Bank and others, suggest that developing countries face substantially higher risks of violent conflict, and poor governance if highly dependent on primary commodities. Revenues from the legal, or illegal exploitati...

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Main Authors:	Bannon, Ian, Collier, Paul
Format:	Publication
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2013
Subjects:	NATURAL RESOURCES VIOLENCE RESEARCH CONFLICT AREAS CONFLICT MANAGEMENT POVERTY INCIDENCE REVENUE SOURCES ECONOMIC BENEFIT COMMODITY TRADE ILLICIT PAYMENTS ILLICIT TRAFFIC MONEY SOURCES LAW ENFORCEMENT RISK ASSESSMENT PETROLEUM SUPPLY MINING INDUSTRY LOW-INCOME ECONOMIES EXTERNAL SHOCKS ACCOUNTABILITY ADVERSE EFFECTS ANTICORRUPTION ARMED FORCES ARMS RACE ARMY BOUNDARIES CIVIL WAR CIVIL WARS COLD WAR COMMODITIES CONFLICT COUNTRIES CONFLICT PREVENTION CONFLICT RISK CONFLICTS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CORRUPT OFFICIALS CORRUPTION COSTS OF CONFLICT CRIME DEFENSE DEFENSE SPENDING DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DIASPORA ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMICS ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY EPIDEMICS ETHNIC DOMINANCE ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC MAJORITY EXPLOITATION EXTORTION FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL SECTOR FIREARMS FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOREIGN INVESTORS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HIGH RISK HUMAN RIGHTS IMPORTS INCOME INCOME PER CAPITA INSURANCE INTERNATIONAL AID INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LAW INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT CLIMATE LIVING CONDITIONS LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MILITARY OPERATIONS MILITARY SPENDING MONEY LAUNDERING MORTALITY NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLOITATION NONCOMBATANTS OIL ORGANIZED CRIME PEACE PER CAPITA INCOME POOR GOVERNANCE POST-CONFLICT PRODUCERS REBEL GROUP REBEL GROUPS REBEL LEADERS REBEL MOVEMENTS REBEL ORGANIZATION REBEL RECRUITMENT REBELLION REBELLIONS RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY RISK MANAGEMENT RISK OF CONFLICT RISK OF REBELLION RISK REDUCTION RISKS OF CONFLICT SANCTIONS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL POLICIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TERRORISM TIMBER TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSPARENCY VIOLENT CONFLICT VIOLENT CRIME WAR ECONOMIES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/3663755/natural-resources-violent-conflict-options-actions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15047

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Summary:	Recent research undertaken by the Bank and others, suggest that developing countries face substantially higher risks of violent conflict, and poor governance if highly dependent on primary commodities. Revenues from the legal, or illegal exploitation of natural resources have financed devastating conflicts in large numbers of countries across regions. When a conflict erupts, it not only sweeps away decades of painstaking development efforts, but creates costs and consequences-economic, social, political, regional-that live on for decades. The outbreak of violent domestic conflict amounts to a spectacular failure of development-in essence, development in reverse. Even where countries initially manage to avoid violent conflict, large rents from natural resources can weaken state structures, and make governments less accountable, often leading to the emergence of secessionist rebellions, and all-out civil war. Although natural resources are never the sole source of conflict, and do not make conflict inevitable, the presence of abundant primary commodities, especially in low-income countries, exacerbates the risks of conflict and, if conflict does break out, tends to prolong it and makes it harder to resolve. As the Governance of Natural Resources Project (a research project) took shape, the discussion moved toward practical approaches and policies that could be adopted by the international community. This book presents the papers commissioned under the Governance of Natural Resources Project, offering a rich array of approaches and suggestions that are feeding into the international policy debate, and hopefully lead, over time to concerted international action, to help developing countries better manage their resource wealth, and turn this wealth into a driver of development rather than of conflict.

Natural Resources and Violent Conflict : Options and Actions

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