Title:	Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa : the Tragedy of Endowment
Authors:	Abiodun, Alao Toyin Falola
Keywords:	Natural resources—Africa
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	University of Rochester
Description:	This book is an attempt to contribute answers to some of the questions identified above. I use the word “contribute” deliberately, as ultimate answers are probably unlikely to most of the questions. I do not seek to reify the orthodox thinking of conflict as an outcome of clearly determinable and predictable linear patterns of cause and effect. Rather, conflict in Africa is viewed from the perspective of an outcome of contingent predisposing factors of which natural resources are central elements. Broadly, in this book I examine the ways through which the ownership, management, and control of natural resources have been linked to conflicts in the continent and the issues underlining these conflicts. To achieve this, I divide natural resources into four categories—land (including agricultural products and animal resources), solid minerals, oil, and water—and proceed to discuss some of the ways through which each one of these has been linked to conflict in the continent, especially in the last decade. Following this, I analyze the conflicts through the consequences of one phenomenon that threads through all conflicts over natural resources in Africa: governance, especially as this involves the weakness of administrative structures designed to manage these resources, the inadequacy of laws and regulations governing the sharing of the endowment, the intricacies of elite politics, and the changing role of civil society
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/8930
ISBN:	978–1–58046–267–9
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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