The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Conflict and Peacemaking

Aiming to contribute to the literature of what works to make peace, this volume examines the roles of land, water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking. The analysis focuses on six cases of prolonged, ethno-national, asymmetric conflict and six cases of special interest. Land, water and natural resources were causes of conflict, sources of funding to combatants, weapons of war, reasons to make peace and incentives to make peace. Nine of the cases ended in a negotiated, written peace