Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Helen Young is a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and a research director at the school’s Feinstein International Center. Lisa Goldman is a senior attorney at the Environmental Law Institute.

"This book is an excellent compendium of such conflicts, their contexts, and innovative ways for peace-building in policy and practice." - Paula Hanasz, Asia and the Pacific Policy Society

• Foreword Introduction: Helping Post-conflict Communities Survive and Thrive Part 1: Natural Resource Conflicts, Livelihoods, and Peacebuilding Approaches Introduction 1. Social Identity, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding 2. Swords into Ploughshares? Access to Natural Resources and Securing Agricultural Livelihoods in Rural Afghanistan 3.Forest Resources in Cambodia’s Transition to Peace: Lessons for Peacebuilding 4. Post-tsunami Aceh: Successful Peacemaking, Uncertain Peacebuilding 5. Manufacturing Peace in "No Man’s Land": Livestock and Access to Resources in the Karimojong Cluster of Kenya and Uganda 6. Resolving Natural Resource Conflicts to Help Prevent War: A Case from Afghanistan Part 2: Innovative Livelihoods Approaches in Post-conflict Settings Introduction 7. The Opportunities and Challenges of Protected Areas for Post-conflict Peacebuilding 8. A Peace Park in the Balkans:Cross-border Cooperation and Livelihood Creation through Coordinated Environmental Conservation 9. Mountain Gorilla Ecotourism: Supporting Macroeconomic Growth and Providing Local Livelihoods 10. The Interface between Natural Resources and Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: Enhancing Human Security in Post-conflict Settings 11. Demobilized Combatants as Park Rangers: Post-conflict Natural Resource Management in Gorongosa National Park 12. Utilizing Alternative Livelihood Schemes to Solve Conflict Problems in Sierra Leone’s Artisanal Diamond Mining Industry 13. Linking to Peace: Using BioTrade for Biodiversity Conservation and Peacebuilding in Colombia Part 3: The Institutional and Policy Context Introduction 14. Fisheries Policies and the Problem of Instituting Sustainable Management: The Case of Occupied Japan 15. Developing Capacity for Natural Resource Management in Afghanistan: Process, Challenges and Lessons Learned by UNEP 16. Building Resilience in Rural Livelihood Systems as an Investment in Conflict Prevention 17. Improving Natural Resource Governance and Building Peace and Stability in Mindanao, Philippines 18. Commerce in the Chaos: Charcoal, Bananas, Fisheries, and Conflict in Somalia Part 4: Lessons Learned 19. Managing Natural Resources for Livelihoods in Post-conflict Societies: Lessons Learned