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5 - The United Nations Security Council

From ‘Conflict Resources’ to Climate Change as a ‘Threat’ to International Peace and Security

from Part II - The Practice of International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2021

Eliana Cusato
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Chapter 5 embarks upon an analysis of the UNSC’s approach to ‘conflict resources’ by considering its use of sanctions, panels/groups of experts, and peacekeeping missions. It will show that UNSC commodity-focused interventions have sought to address the economic motivations for starting and prolonging armed conflict, while failing to bring about the systemic changes necessary to achieve ‘positive peace’. By securitising resource extraction in conflict zones and supporting ‘good governance’ reforms in post-conflict countries, questions of sustainability and more equitable access/distribution of natural resources have been sidelined. Thereafter, through engaging with ongoing debates on the peace and security implications of climate change, the chapter illuminates the limits of existing conceptual/legal frameworks underpinning the practice of the UNSC and the need to rethink what peace and security mean in times of ecological disruption.

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The Ecology of War and Peace
Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law
, pp. 153 - 196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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