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Ölförderung in Rumänien
Background

Natural resources and their distribution

Resources, or natural resources in general, are all natural materials that people can use and that for that reason have some kind of importance attached to them. The economic and societal importance and the value of natural resources can change.

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Difficult life conditions in refugee camp
Edelstein-Bergbau in Tansania
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Resource control regimes - Contributions to conflict prevention

Resource-rich countries are not automatically wealthy. On the contrary, war and violence prevail in some of these countries. Resource-related conflicts are ignited by an unjust distribution of the proceeds or when living conditions in resource-rich regions deteriorate.

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Britischer Soldat auf Patrouille in Ölfeldern im Irak
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Oil - Fuel for conflicts

Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa, is also its largest oil producer and the country with the seventh highest production rate worldwide. Over two million barrels of crude oil are produced daily - the majority onshore, a smaller amount offshore.

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Uncut diamonds in the sorting room at De Beers' Diamond Trading
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Conflict resource - Diamonds

Blood diamonds - hardly any key word is more to the point when describing the interrelation between war and resources. The term relates to civil wars in which rebels finance their bloody fight through the sale of diamonds.

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Schlag gegen Drogenhandel in Kolumbien
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Drugs and armed conflicts

In regions of conflict, drugs production and trade often play an important role besides other illegal activities. One basic question of conflict research is whether or not drugs cultivation and trade have a direct influence on armed conflict or even trigger or exacerbate such conflict.

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DR CONGO UNREST
Elfenbeinküste - Kakao - Anbau
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Bitter cocoa - Agricultural products as conflict resources

The debate on conflict resources is mostly about extractive natural resources, such as metals, minerals and energy sources, i.e. gold, iron ore, diamonds and oil. Some of these natural treasures, such as diamonds and gold are particularly well suited for financing conflicts.

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A pile of logs
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National regulation of activities by international corporations

What can be done when international corporations support human rights violations and are implicated in wars through their business activities—and nobody punishes them for that? Can they be brought to account by the courts in their home country for crimes committed abroad?

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Rise in deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest
INDONESIA ILLEGAL LOGGING
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The "Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade" (FLEGT) Action Plan

The Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan, in short FLEGT, adopted in 2003 by the EU Commission, aims to prevent the import of illegal timber into the European Union and, with this, to contribute to the fight against illegal logging and more sustainable forestry in the timber exporting countries.

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Edelstein-Bergbau in Tansania
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Strategies and standards for corporate social responsibility

Overexploitation, environmental degradation, wage dumping and human rights violations: To avoid negative effects of natural resources exploitation (extractive industries) or the cultivation of crops (large-scale agricultural production), different actors have to cooperate.

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Buchhandlungen bangen um die Buchpreisbindung

Data tables

For some select map layers, the information portal ‘War and Peace’ provides the user with all used data sets as tables.

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Magnifying Glass in front of a Boston map

Country portraits

In the country reports, data and information are collected by country and put into tables that are used in the modules as a basis for maps and illustrations.

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Compass with Mirror

Navigation and operation

The information and data of each module are primarily made available as selectable map layers and are complemented by texts and graphs. The map layers can be found on the right hand side and are listed according to themes and sub-themes.

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