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Mediating Forest Conflicts in Southeast Asia: Getting the Positives out of Conflicts over Forests and Land

Reports & Research
February, 2014
Indonesia
Cambodia
Thailand
South-Eastern Asia

The high incidence of forest conflict in Southeast Asia underscores the need for conflict-transformation tools to maximize the positive impacts and reduce potential damage. Mediation is considered one of the most effective approaches in transforming conflict over natural resources. Mediation is often chosen when negotiation between conflict parties fails due to the complexity and intensity of the conflict and because of unequal negotiating power. It is also chosen when the judicial process is considered too complex and requires higher transaction costs.

Business for peace? The ambiguous role of ‘ethical’ mining companies

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Multinational companies are increasingly promoted as peacebuilders. Major arguments in support of such a position emphasise both interest-based and norm/socialisation-based factors. This article uses research on large mining MNCs in eastern DRC – those that, arguably, should be most likely to build peace according to the above positions – to engage critically with the business for peace agenda. First it demonstrates the limited peacemaking, as well as active peacebuilding, activities in broader society that companies undertake.

Disrupting Territories: Land, Commodification and Conflict in Sudan

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Sudan

Sudan experiences one of the most severe fissures between society and territory in Africa. Not only were its international borders redrawn when South Sudan separated in 2011, but conflicts continue to erupt over access to land: territorial claims are challenged by local and international actors; borders are contested; contracts governing the privatization of resources are contentious; and the legal entitlements to agricultural land are disputed.

World Bank's Bad Business in Sierra Leone

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2013
Sierra Leone

Since 2004, the World Bank has provided continuous “investment climate advisory services” to Sierra Leone. Business reforms and Bank-piloted programs such as Sierra Leone Business Forum and the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency led to the World Bank classifying Sierra Leone among “the top 15 economies that improved their business regulatory environment the most” since 2005 and rank the country third in the regional “Protection of Investors” category.

ข้อมูลพื้นฐาน - ชุมชนบ้านห้วยหินดำ

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Thailand

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านห้วยหินดำไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

ข้อมูลพื้นฐาน - ชุมชนบ้านอ่าวกรูด

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Thailand

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านอ่าวกรูดไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

ข้อมูลพื้นฐาน - ชุมชนบ้านพรงลำบิด

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Thailand

เอกสารที่รวบรวมข้อมูลพื้นฐานของชุมชนบ้านพรงลำบิดไว้อย่างครบถ้วน เหมาะสำหรับผู้ที่สนใจทั่วไป

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