ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that natural resources are an important medium for corruption in post-conflict situations, and that corruption can have both stabilizing and destabilizing effects, depending on the time frame and the nature of the underlying political relationships. It examines the concept of corruption and the difficulties that emerge from how the term is commonly understood and used. The chapter discusses some conditions that make corruption particularly salient in post-conflict countries, and especially in relation to natural resources. It analyses the complex linkages between natural resources, peacebuilding, and corruption. The chapter explains a discussion of some types of anticorruption measures that should reduce vulnerability to corruption in the management of natural resources in post-conflict states. In post-conflict situations, such as those in Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Iraq, accusations of corruption abound, often in relation to the exploitation of natural resources.
