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COLLIER, Paul: Exodus. Jak migrace mění náš svět
Full text linkRecenze publikace - COLLIER, Paul: Exodus. Jak migrace mění náš světPraha: Nakladatelství Libri, 2017, 258 s. ISBN 978-80-7277-557-6
Natural Resources and Conflict: What We Can Do.
No full textViolent conflict can be catastrophic for developing countries and their neighbours, stunting and even reversing the course of economic growth. Recent World Bank research on the causes of conflict and civil war finds that the countries most likely to be blighted by conflict are those whose economies depend heavily on natural resources. This book looks at the links between resource dependence conflict and then considers what can be done to help reduce the risk of civil war in these nations. Contributors consider the risks of corruption, secessionist movements, and rebel financing. They also consider the roles played by government, the development community, and the country's population and propose an agenda for global action. Looking at what can be done collectively to diminish the likelihood of civil war, contributors to this volume suggest practical approaches and policies that could be adopted by the international community from financial and resource reporting procedures to commodity tracking systems and enforcement techniques, including sanctions, certification requirements, and aid conditionality
Understanding Civil War : Evidence and Analysis, Volume 2. Europe, Central Asia, and Other Regions
No full textThe two volumes of Understanding Civil
War build upon the World Bank's prior research on
conflict and violence, particularly on the work of Paul
Collier and Anke Hoeffler, whose model of civil war onset
has sparked much discussion on the relationship between
conflict and development in what came to be known as the
"greed" versus "grievance" debate. The
authors systematically apply the Collier-Hoeffler model to
15 countries in 6 different regions of the world, using a
comparative case study methodology to revise and expand upon
economic models of civil war. (The countries selected are
Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria,
Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan, Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Indonesia,
Lebanon, Russian Federation, Colombia, Northern Ireland,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the Caucasus.) The book
concludes that the "greed" versus
"grievance" debate should be abandoned for a more
complex model that considers greed and grievance as
inextricably fused motives for civil war
Understanding Civil War : Evidence and Analysis, Volume 1. Africa
No full textThe two volumes of Understanding Civil
War build upon the World Bank's prior research on
conflict and violence, particularly on the work of Paul
Collier and Anke Hoeffler, whose model of civil war onset
has sparked much discussion on the relationship between
conflict and development in what came to be known as the
"greed" versus "grievance" debate. The
authors systematically apply the Collier-Hoeffler model to
15 countries in 6 different regions of the world, using a
comparative case study methodology to revise and expand upon
economic models of civil war. (The countries selected are
Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria,
Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan, Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Indonesia,
Lebanon, Russian Federation, Colombia, Northern Ireland,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the Caucasus.) The book
concludes that the "greed" versus
"grievance" debate should be abandoned for a more
complex model that considers greed and grievance as
inextricably fused motives for civil war
Natural Resources and Violent Conflict : Options and Actions
No full textRecent research undertaken by the Bank
and others, suggest that developing countries face
substantially higher risks of violent conflict, and poor
governance if highly dependent on primary commodities.
Revenues from the legal, or illegal exploitation of natural
resources have financed devastating conflicts in large
numbers of countries across regions. When a conflict erupts,
it not only sweeps away decades of painstaking development
efforts, but creates costs and consequences-economic,
social, political, regional-that live on for decades. The
outbreak of violent domestic conflict amounts to a
spectacular failure of development-in essence, development
in reverse. Even where countries initially manage to avoid
violent conflict, large rents from natural resources can
weaken state structures, and make governments less
accountable, often leading to the emergence of secessionist
rebellions, and all-out civil war. Although natural
resources are never the sole source of conflict, and do not
make conflict inevitable, the presence of abundant primary
commodities, especially in low-income countries, exacerbates
the risks of conflict and, if conflict does break out, tends
to prolong it and makes it harder to resolve. As the
Governance of Natural Resources Project (a research project)
took shape, the discussion moved toward practical approaches
and policies that could be adopted by the international
community. This book presents the papers commissioned under
the Governance of Natural Resources Project, offering a rich
array of approaches and suggestions that are feeding into
the international policy debate, and hopefully lead, over
time to concerted international action, to help developing
countries better manage their resource wealth, and turn this
wealth into a driver of development rather than of conflict
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