The European Union and natural resources that fund armed conflicts: explaining the EU’s policy choice for supply chain due-diligence requirements
Natural resources can be an important source of funding for warring parties in armed conflicts. Curbing the trade in these so-called conflict resources is, therefore, part of the European Union’s (EU) conflict management policies. The article explores the EU’s policies in this field and asks, specif...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10230/43718 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/43718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836718808314 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Armed conflicts Conflict resources European Union Natural resources Supply chain due diligence Transparency |
| Sumario: | Natural resources can be an important source of funding for warring parties in armed conflicts. Curbing the trade in these so-called conflict resources is, therefore, part of the European Union’s (EU) conflict management policies. The article explores the EU’s policies in this field and asks, specifically, why the EU is using supply chain due diligence measures to achieve this goal. The author argues they are the response to enforcement problems of most existing multilateral and unilateral sanction regimes because of state weakness in the targeted regions. This approach results from a broader idea from the EU that transparency can improve resource governance and, therefore, safeguard both its political and economic interests in conflict zones, such as the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, when the issue became specific—as in the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation—translating this idea into concrete policies became more contentious as the different actors set different priorities for the final policy design. |
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