Natural Resources and Conflict: Confict Mechanism and Corporate Self-regulation cased by Difficulty of Agreement

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12278
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Environmental policy and social systems
• Research Institution: Ehime University
• Principal Investigator: Kurita Hideyuki 愛媛大学, 国際連携推進機構, 准教授 (60335883)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 資源の呪い / 資源開発 / 合意形成 / 民主化 / 自主規制

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study made clear following points, 1)Agreement process among local stakeholders is a non-negligible factor to 'Resource Curse'--I named the process as Mechanism of anti-democratic agreement process-- for countries where natural resource sector is expanding, institution for human rights and democracy are not matured enough, and separatism armed group is active, 2)Development of above institutions are disturbed by natural resource industry, 3)there is some possibility that high self-lagulation of trans-national corporations brings from outside the countries helps mitigation of mechanism of anti-democratic agreement process, 4) Vagueness of self-regulation and management of macro-economy are necessary for overcoming mechanism of anti-democratic agreement.

Free Research Field

国際開発学　国際平和学