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A local to global perspective on oil and wind exploitation, resource governance and conflict in Northern Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Africa, Kenya
Land in post-conflict settings
extractive industries
land access
land dispute
land rights
local communities
natural resources management
water management
In north-western Kenya, significant oil reserves have been discovered and the first oil trucks have left Turkana County in June 2018. On the east side of Lake Turkana, the largest wind power project on the African continent was completed in mid-2017. This article applies a local to global perspective to explore the benefits and externalities for the local communities living in close proximity to the oil and wind exploitation sites. A particular focus is placed on governance of energy resources, water and employment opportunities and its impacts on new and existing conflict dynamics.
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A local to global perspective on resource governance and conflict

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Global
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
land access
land governance
land rights
land use
natural resources management
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue ‘A Local to Global Perspective on Resource Governance and Conflict’. It advances the debate on natural resource governance and conflict by bringing together three different strands of literature with the aim of developing a local to global research perspective and framework for analysis. First, this article reviews and identifies research gaps in the literatures on (1) the resource curse, (2) environmental security and (3) the large-scale acquisition of land and natural resources.
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Development by dispossession: the post-2000 development agenda and land rights in Lesotho

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Lesotho
Land & Investments
land policies
land reform
dispossession
This paper questions the novelty of post-2000 development strategies, in particular the US’s Millennium Challenge Corporation and its ethos of ‘poverty reduction through economic growth.’ Using land as a lens, I explore recent eras of development assistance and ask if the Millennium-era has been appreciably different from pre-2000 development. The backdrop of my study is an MCC-sponsored land reform in Lesotho. I use data drawn from fieldwork in Lesotho to argue that the logics and outcomes of the Development industry’s land policies have remained largely the same.
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Enclosure, dispossession, and the green economy: new contours of internal displacement in Liberia and Sierra Leone?

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2017
Liberia, Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
displacement
dispossession
land conflicts
land governance
local communities
natural disasters
natural resources management
Through a review of recent writings in political ecology and agrarian studies, this paper appraises the potential for emerging forms of ‘green economy’ initiatives to catalyze new forms of internal displacement in West Africa, with specific emphasis on the postwar contexts of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Epilogue: visions of the future

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
right of access
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Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2016
Global
Land in post-conflict settings
land access
land governance
land use
local communities
natural resources management
water management
When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires good governance.
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Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa

Foreign direct investment and food and water security

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2014
Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land management
land use
natural resources management
water management
land investments
water rights
According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007. Current research has focused on human rights issues related to inward investment in land but has been ignorant of water resource issues and the challenges of managing scarce water. This handbook will be the first to address inward investment in land and its impact on water resources in Africa.
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Investing in peace: foreign direct investment as economic restoration in Sierra Leone?

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2015
Africa, Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
land markets
land investments
foreign investment
land deals
land conflicts
In peace-building and transitional justice literature economic restoration is considered central to sustainable peace in post-conflict societies. However, it is also widely recognised that many post-conflict states cannot afford mechanisms to provide restoration. Not only are many such states poor to begin with, but violent conflict further degrades their economic capacity. As a result, in their need to provide jobs, generate tax revenues, spur development and promote sustainable peace, many post-conflict states turn to alternative processes of economic restoration.
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Peacebuilding in Crisis

Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2015
Global
Land in post-conflict settings
land access
land administration
land conflicts
land governance
land use
The 1990s saw a constant increase in international peace missions, predominantly led by the United Nations, whose mandates were more and more extended to implement societal and political transformations in post-conflict societies. However, in many cases these missions did not meet the high expectations and did not acquire a sufficient legitimacy on the local level. Written by leading experts in the field, this edited volume brings together ‘liberal’ and ‘post-liberal’ approaches to peacebuilding.
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Plantation assemblages and spaces of contested development in Sierra Leone and Cambodia

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Sierra Leone, Cambodia
Land in post-conflict settings
land administration
land deals
land governance
land investments
land rights
local communities
Much has been written on land deals, their impact and challenges of contestation in the Global South. Multiple studies show that communities are high-spirited as long as they oppose the actual conversion of their land. My findings illustrate, however, how companies, local authorities, communities, civil society and the government mitigate conflicts, re-shape resource governance, and negotiate terms of development in operating plantations and local-global dynamics thereof.