ABSTRACT
Properly managed, high-value natural resources can help consolidate peace by providing jobs, revenues, and infrastructure. Sharing resource wealth can also provide an incentive for cease-fire agreements between belligerents. But when high-value resources are subject to unfair contracts or diverted to war profiteers, they can undermine the transition to a durable peace. This chapter describes two principal means of addressing such problems: (1) reappraising and renegotiating resource exploitation contracts and (2) freezing, recovering, or claiming compensation for stolen assets.
