Regional Cooperation on Environment, Economy, and Natural Resource Management: How Can it Contribute to Peacebuilding?.
Publisher: Moira Feil, Diana Klein, and Meike Westerkamp (International Alert and Adelphi)
Date: 2009
Topics: Economic Recovery, Peace and Security Operations, Renewable Resources
Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Colombia, Ecuador, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Peru, Rwanda
The Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP) Regional Cooperation on Environment, Economy and Natural Resource Management Cluster has been looking at the role regional cooperation initiatives in these three areas can play in peacebuilding.Regional cooperation initiatives are a common mechanism for supporting an improvement in relations between parties, or achieving transboundary goals (such as improving the environmental situation or increasing trade). Many claim to have a positive contribution to peacebuilding. The EU supports and funds various such regional cooperation initiatives.The cluster’s work primarily focused on researching initiatives in the Andean Region of Latin America, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, the Middle East and the South Caucasus, with the view of assessing their current contribution to peacebuilding and extracting lessons learned for regional cooperation initiatives in other areas, whether geographic or thematic.