Description
A critical obstacle to African development, sustainable or otherwise, has been latent and ongoing violence. In 1998, according to UNDP, 14 of the continent’s 53 countries were embroiled in armed conflicts, resulting in more than eight million refugees and displaced peoples. Drawing on a detailed assessment of the role of natural resources in African conflicts, Jeremy Lind argues that ecology interacts with social factors in ways that have often not been accounted for in conventional ‘environment and security’ analyses of wars in the region.
Information
- Author(s)
- Jeremy Lind
- Publisher
- IUCN - World Conservation Union
- Place published
- Geneva
- Date / journal vol no.
- in “Environment & Security: Why Nature is a Matter of Survival”, Policy Matters, Newsletter of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, Issue No. 9, May 2002
- Pages
- pp 18-20
