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The Economist recently wrote on the Sri Lankan conflict and civil society: “keep quiet and carry on”. read more

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai speaks on the relationship between scarce natural resources and global conflict.

Oxford Professor Paul Collier talks about the natural resource curse and makes suggestions on how to overcome it.

The Resource Conflict Monitor (RCM) monitors how resource-rich countries manage, administer and govern their natural resources and illustrates the impact of the quality of resource governance on the onset, intensity and duration of violent conflict. read more

The Kimberley Process (KP) is a joint governments, industry and civil society initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds – rough diamonds used by rebel movements to finance wars against legitimate governments. read more