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International Peace Academy Wilton Park Transforming War Economies: Challenges for Peacemaking and Peacebuilding Report of the 725th Wilton Park Conference, in association with the International Peace Academy Wiston House, Sussex 27-29 October 2003 Rapporteur: Heiko Nitzschke DECEMBER 2003 ■ NEW YORK Acknowledgements The program on Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (EACW) wishes to thank Isobelle Jaques, Jo Childs, Jackie Roberts and the rest of the Wilton Park Conference Center staff for their excellent cooperation in organizing this conference. The author is grateful to Karen Ballentine and Kaysie Studdard for their extensive comments on an earlier draft of this report. TRANSFORMING WAR ECONOMIES: CHALLENGES FOR PEACEMAKING AND PEACEBUILDING Table of Contents Executive Summary. 1 I. Introduction. 3 II. Economic Dimensions of Civil Wars: Challenges for Peacemaking and Peace Implementation . 3 Targeted Sanctions: Achieving Peace by Reducing the Economic Opportunities of Combatants? . 4 The Political Economy of Peace Processes: Making Peace Pay? . 5 Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) . 8 III. From War Economies to Peace Economies: Challenges for Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Recovery . 9 Transforming Shadow Economies and Addressing Economic Criminalization . 10 Securing Natural Resource Wealth . 11 IV. Conclusion: Recommendations for Policy Action . 13 Conference Agenda. 16 Participants . 20 Contents TRANSFORMING WAR ECONOMIES: CHALLENGES FOR PEACEMAKING AND PEACEBUILDING Executive Summary strengthen the mandates and administrative capacities of UN Expert Panels. Policy analysis has produced important insights on the impact that the predatory and illicit exploitation of • Assessing the economic endowments and activities natural resources and the pervasive criminalization of of combatants may help third-party mediators of economic life can have on conflict dynamics. The peace processes to identify potential spoilers. operational challenges of transforming the ‘war Possible strategies for management of spoilers economies’ sustaining those conflicts, however, is still include their cooptation, criminalization or benign an underdeveloped area of policy research and neglect. Alone or in combination, each strategy practice. The International Peace Academy-sponsored involves difficult tradeoffs that may undermine conference at Wilton Park sought to discern as to sustainable peace. Where politically feasible, third- whether and how the legacies of war economies in party mediators should seek to include provisions conflicts such as those in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, for resource-sharing into peace agreements or and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) create establish benchmarks for responsible resource distinctive challenges for conflict resolution, and to management, that could serve as reference for identify strategic priorities for policy-makers engaged donors and civil society to hold government in peacemaking and peacebuilding. accountable. IFIs should be included in the peace processes, whether formally or informally, to Challenges for Peacemaking and Peace Implementation: ensure coordinated policy action among third Preliminary analysis suggests that the increasingly parties, and to match peace agreements with post- self-financing nature of many contemporary conflicts conflict economic recovery strategies. creates a more difficult environment for conflict resolution, peacemaking and peace implementation. • Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration War economies are sustained by regional and global (DDR) programs face additional challenges where linkages with both licit and illicit actors, each with the possession of arms is not just a function of vested interests in the continuation of conflict and ongoing insecurity but is also an important instability. Both rebel or government combatants who economic asset. In such settings, the UN and the benefited from predation during war may act as World Bank need to make disarmament and reinte- ‘spoilers,’ using force to undermine peace processes. gration parallel and complementary, not sequen- The economic opportunities and rewards available tial, processes. Socio-economic support to former through predation may also influence combatants’ combatants needs to be provided early on in the proclivity to voluntarily disarm and return to a civilian DDR process, taking account also of the different life. incentives of rank-and-file soldiers and middle- level commanders. Importantly, DDR programs • The effectiveness of UN commodity and financial must form an integral part of national post- sanctions as a tool for conflict resolution is conflict development and reconstruction strategies. seriously undermined by widespread ‘sanctions- busting’ by neighboring states, criminal networks Challenges for Peacebuilding and Po s t - C o n f l i c t and corporate actors, and the lack of compliance Recovery: Economic activity during wartime serves a and enforcement by relevant government agencies. variety of functions, which can be usefully distin- To effectively curtail resource flows to belligerents, guished as combat economies, shadow economies, and governments need to follow-up on reports by the civilian coping economies. Often controlled by UN Expert Panels and adopt appropriate national combatants, criminal entrepreneurs, and corrupt legislation to criminalize UN ‘sanctions-busting.’ governments, these economic relationships tend to The UN Security Council should impose, where persist after the formal resolution of active hostilities. applicable, secondary sanctions, ensure member In these settings, a main challenge for peacebuilding state compliance with sanctions resolutions, and efforts is to address the dysfunctional elements of the Executive Summary 1 TRANSFORMING WAR ECONOMIES: CHALLENGES FOR PEACEMAKING AND PEACEBUILDING shadow economy, while retaining its socially beneficial effective, equitable, and transparent systems of aspects. Where the illegal exploitation or inequitable, resource management by the government, while unaccountable management of natural resources has ensuring benefits for those civilians who are been central to conflict dynamics, improved resource dependent on resource exploitation. Importantly, governance needs to be a central element of this should also include new regulations and peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction strate- legislation on corporate engagement in natural gies. resource industries to minimize corruption and impede ‘rogue companies’ from undermining • Shadow economies and economic criminalization fragile peace. Support to civil society organizations need to be addressed through both, ‘sticks and is crucial for holding governments and companies c a r r o t s .’ The former includes improved law accountable. When properly mandated and enforcement and judicial reform, possibly as an equipped, UN peace missions may support the integral part of the mandate of international peace establishment of state control over resource-rich operations. The latter requires incentives for areas and borderlands to impede illegal resource shadow entrepreneurs to join the legal economy, as exploitation and smuggling activities. well as the strengthening of the state’s capacities to provide basic services, security, and employment. Viewing intrastate conflict from a political economy Importantly, donor agencies need to review their perspective affords important insights for our post-conflict macro-economic strategies, not least understanding of conflict and, consequently, for to adequately account for the social functions of improved peacemaking and peacebuilding. Economic shadow economies. Tackling cross-border shadow factors play a different role in different conflicts. Yet, trade requires improved regulatory efforts within the legacies of economic predation, militarized produc- regional organizations or initiatives, comple- tion, and criminalized trade in many of today’s mented with regional economic integration to conflicts highlight the different challenges that conflict eliminate the structural incentives for shadow management faces in these settings. While more trade. research is needed on these issues, a range of policy levers can, when applied in a robust and coordinated • Donor agencies and regional organizations need to effort, raise the odds for successful peacemaking and design and support tools and strategies for more peacebuilding. 2 Executive Summary TRANSFORMING WAR ECONOMIES: CHALLENGES FOR PEACEMAKING AND PEACEBUILDING I. Introduction legacies of war economies and their operational challenges for conflict resolution, and to identify strategic priorities for policy-makers engaged in To date, international policy efforts to address the peacemaking and peacebuilding. economic dimensions of intra-state conflict have largely focused on curtailing resource flows to combat- This report synthesizes the main themes arising from 1 ants through global control regimes. Yet, the creation the panel presentations and ensuing discussions. It of robust regulatory frameworks addressing the global does not necessarily represent a consensus view. traffic of resources that make armed conflict feasible is Presentations and comments made during the confer- a long-term objective. While important for structural ence were not for attribution. conflict prevention, this approach offers comparatively few practical insights for confronting the immediate challenges of transforming war-ravaged countries, in II. 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