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Armed actors and environmental peacebuilding: Lessons from eastern DRC

  • Judith Verweijen (University of Groningen)
  • Peer Schouten (Danish Institute of International Studies)
  • Fergus O’Leary Simpson (University of Antwerp)
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The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been the site of decades of conflict between the Congolese army and nonstate armed groups. The region’s conflict dynamics are profoundly affected by the combatants’ exploitation of and illegal trade in natural resources. Drawing lessons from eastern DRC, this report argues that the environmental peacebuilding field needs to do more to understand how armed actors shape resource governance and resource-related conflict, which in turn can lead to better-designed peacebuilding programs and interventions.

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Further reading

Find out more about how the environment plays a role in conflict financing and organised crime in the flagship WWF-adelphi report:

The Nature of Conflict and Peace

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This description was excerpted from usip.org.  

 

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