Improving Resource Governance and Building Sustainable Peace

In a recently published piece in World Development, Florian Krampe, Farah Hegazi and Stacy D VanDeveer explore the potentially dramatic benefits of improved environmental and resource governance for post-war peacebuilding.

They outline three causal mechanisms – or pathways – for environmental peacebuilding:

(a) the contact hypothesis,

(b) diffusion of transnational norms, and

(c) state service provision.

These insights offer opportunities for both applied policymaking and future social science research about how to build and sustain positive peace. The piece brings together a large range of recent research on post-conflict environmental peacebuilding, citing examples from East Timor, Nepal, South Sudan, and Colombia, among others.

• The Project: Green Curses and Violent Conflicts