ENVIRONMENT SHOULD PLAY GREATER ROLE IN PEACEBUILDING, UN REPORTS

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Date: 10 Dec 2013 19:00:01 -0500
Subject: ENVIRONMENT SHOULD PLAY GREATER ROLE IN PEACEBUILDING, UN REPORTS
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ENVIRONMENT SHOULD PLAY GREATER ROLE IN PEACEBUILDING, UN REPORTSNew
York, Dec 10 2013 7:00PMNatural resources – which, in many
conflict-affected countries, fuel and finance armed groups – can also
play a major role in bringing about sustainable peace, the United
Nations today <"http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2756&ArticleID=10677&l=en">reported
urging Governments and partners to integrate natural resource
management in post-conflict reintegration programmes.

Incorporating natural resources in peacebuilding efforts can help to
mitigate potential conflicts, such as disputes over land or water, and
give green jobs to former soldiers, according to a
<"http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/crisis%20prevention/UNEP_UNDP_NRM_DDR.pdf">joint
report released today by UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN
Environment Programme (UNEP).

"When helping former fighters and their communities to start new lives
after a conflict, it is often critical to help them turn existing
natural resources into economic opportunities," said Jordan Ryan, UNDP
Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Crisis
Prevention and Recovery.

"However, natural resources need to be managed properly as part of a
well thought-out peace process," he stressed in reference to minerals,
oils, gas and timber.

According to 'The Role of Natural Resources in Disarmament,
Demobilization and Reintegration – Addressing Risks and Seizing
Opportunities', plans for the fair management and distribution of
natural resources are usually excluded from peace negotiations and
disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programmes, which
have become an integral part of the UN's post-conflict peace
consolidation over the last 20 years.

For example, in Sierra Leone, natural resources, which now make up 90
per cent of the country's exports, were implicated in the country's
civil war, according to the report authors.

Meanwhile, as an example of the creation of "green jobs" in a
post-conflict setting, after the signing of the peace agreement in
Nepal in 2006, approximately 19,600 former Maoist fighters awaiting
integration into the Nepalese National Army were taught how to upkeep
water systems and improved cooking stoves in their own cantonment
camps.

The report notes that given one-third of UN peacekeeping operations
since 1990 have taken place in areas where the conflicts have been
economically fuelled by, or otherwise driven by, natural resources,
effective natural resource management has the potential to reduce risk
of inflaming conflicts.

The authors also noted the need to consider access to natural
resources among vulnerable groups, such as women, who play a
particularly important role as they are primarily responsible for
providing food, water and other basic resources for households.Dec 10
2013 7:00PM
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