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Understanding natural resources & conflict and creating a UN response

Understanding natural resources & conflict and creating a UN response. The UN Interagency Framework Team For Preventive Action Land and Natural Resources. Trends in conflict and natural resources. 40% of internal conflicts have a link to natural resources.

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Understanding natural resources & conflict and creating a UN response

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  1. Understanding natural resources & conflict and creating a UN response The UN Interagency Framework Team For Preventive Action Land and Natural Resources

  2. Trends in conflict and natural resources 40% of internal conflicts have a link to natural resources Only 25% of peace agreements include natural resource provisions A link to natural resources doubles the risk of conflict relapse within 5 years The UN Interagency Framework Team For Preventive Action Land and Natural Resources

  3. Types of resource conflicts Land Renewable Resources Extractive Resources Ownership, rights, access CONFLICT Oil, minerals, stones, and timber Water, cropland, pastures, forests, fisheries, wildlife 3

  4. Responding through the Framework Team + DPA Framework Team for Preventive Action DG RELEX 4

  5. The normative response Guidance Notes Programming support Joint Field Interventions Training programmes 5

  6. The operational response: From conflict to peacebuilding The Case of the Great Lakes Region and Democratic Republic of Congo • 12 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) or 46% of all IDPs in the world • 10 million refugees or 20% of all refugees in the world • Conflict related to access to land, illegal exploitation of natural resources, protected areas, forced evictions, mining concessions, water. Framework Team Response Capacity building on Mediation and Coordination 6

  7. The operational response: From conflict to peacebuilding Scaling up the local approach…  Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)• Field Level Real Time Assessment • Typology of disputes • Registration of claims• Identification and collection of evidence • Deployment of trained mediators• Systematic mediation• Set up of Land Mediation centerHAC Harmonization, Coordination and alignment• Disputes Resolution / ADR Capacity Building• Mapping of local / national actors• Review of national policies, gaps and overlap• Set up of LNR Coordination Group• Road map for policy development 7

  8. The operational response: From conflict to peacebuilding ..to generate a political dynamics at the national and regional level Regional Dimension to be taken into account using:•ECOWAS Regional mining policy development•ECOWAS Regional Harmonization of mining industries•AU/ ADB/ECA Guideline on land reform•ICGLR Regional capacity on extractive certification process 8

  9. Natural resources and conflict: areas of interest Arctic Ferghana Valley Tigris/Euphrates Basin Jordan Basin Nile Basin Indus Basin Mindanao, Philippines Sahel region Chiapas Sudan Yemen Papua New Guinea & Bougainville Honduras Colombia Niger Delta Aceh Great Lakes Water Land Minerals Hydrocarbons Brazil Examples of existing and future sites of natural resource induced conflicts. Climate change and socio-economic change may further threaten already vulnerable areas. 9

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