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Natural resources, transitional states and grand corruption

In: Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding

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  • Naomi Roht-Arriaza

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This chapter discusses relationship between transitional justice and environmental peacebuilding by looking at grand corruption. Like transitional justice, environmental peacebuilding has both forward- and backwards-looking components. Both seek to redress as well as to remediate past harms while ensuring that they do not repeat going forward, through deterrence and reform. An important aim of environmental peacebuilding is to ensure transparent and accountable institutions. This is crucial while exploring how international law can tackle grand corruption in relation to exploitation of natural resources in war-torn and fragile states. Unsustainable resource extraction as well as uncontrolled state capture and grand corruption are both causes and consequences of violent conflict. Both phenomena must be tackled in order to establish peace. The chapter argues that building stable institutions is essential for environmental peacebuilding, as corruption in relation to natural resources creates a fertile ground for the shadow economies that often evolve around natural resources.

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  • Naomi Roht-Arriaza, 2023. "Natural resources, transitional states and grand corruption," Chapters, in: Daniëlla Dam-de Jong & Britta Sjöstedt (ed.), Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding, chapter 7, pages 127-150, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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