Engines for Peace? Extractive Industries, Host Countries, and the International Community in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Sammendrag
Extractive industries can provide great opportunities for post-conflict peacebuilding in resourcerich
countries by providing revenue to finance reconstruction and set the economy back on track.
However, the process of resource extraction often poses challenges for peacebuilding. This article
first explains the various challenges that valuable natural resources can pose in post-conflict
countries, and establishes a typology of post-conflict contexts where extractive industries, the host
country, and the international community can play primary roles as peace promoters. It then elaborates
on the specific roles each of these actors can play: i) what approaches are available for
responsible companies that aim to be peace sensitive and even promote peace and development
locally and nationally; ii) how a country that has some capacity and political will to secure long
term peace and development can promote responsible exploitation; and iii) how international actors
can promote responsible company and government behaviour in countries with low capacity
and willingness use the natural resource base for the best of its whole population.