Investing In Stability: Can extractive-led development help build peace? (Chatham House, 2015)

Investing In Stability: Can extractive-led development help build peace? (Chatham House, 2015)

Over the past decade growing demand for resources, geostrategic competition and new technologies have pushed resource exploration and development into increasingly politically, socially and environmentally sensitive areas. At the same time, donors and multilateral development banks have backed ‘extractives-led growth’ models in fragile and conflict-affected situations on the basis that resource development may help support stability and thus the underlying conditions for peace.

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