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Rethinking Resource Conflict

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dc.contributor.authorMcNeish, John-Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-26T15:40:33Z
dc.date.available2012-06-26T15:40:33Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractReconsiders how natural resource abundance in minerals, oil and gas, water, and land is frequently associated with various negative development outcomes. Policy making has been affected by the theories on (1) economic performance of resource abundance; (2) political behavioral variables; and (3) civil war onset, duration, and intensity. Mechanisms that abate the resource curse include short-term confidence and peacebuilding, reconstruction of war economies, corporate social responsibility (CSR), medium-term legitimacy and state-building achieved through fiscal transparency and sharing of resource revenues, and regional anti-corruption strategies. The need for more qualitative social and historical analysis demands a new approach to the socio-economics of resource governance which builds on current scholarly trends toward reinstating grievance alongside greed as a factor defining natural resource conflict and suggests the further study of contrasting resource epistemologies as another layer in such friction. Including a larger spectrum of conflict reveals the importance of civil society, and with it of bargaining and confrontation to secure public agreements on natural resource management and the distribution of rents.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/9192
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9192
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectWorld Development Report 2011
dc.titleRethinking Resource Conflicten
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaFragility, Conflict, and Violence
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-05T12:48:09.857875Z
okr.globalpracticeSocial, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.globalpracticeEnvironment and Natural Resources
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.relation.associatedurlhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4389
okr.topicConflict and Development
okr.topicEnvironment
okr.topicPoverty Reduction
okr.topicRural Development
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