Procedural Justice in Conflict Resolution: Empirical Research on the Acceptance of NIMBY

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K20750
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 6:Political science and related fields
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Okada Isamu 名古屋大学, 国際開発研究科, 教授 (00650649)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-07-30 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 社会ライセンス / 手続的公正 / 鉱業開発 / サーベイ実験 / ペルー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research conducted a survey experiment on social licensing of mining development in Peru, including a conjoint design, and had the opportunity to report the results and submit the paper to an international journal. Although there was a practical challenges, such as not being able to use an online panel, I managed to conduct the conjoint experiment in a face-to-face survey, and I believe I could produce meaningful research results as an implementation of an experiment to a socially and academically significant issue. In general, I obtained the expected results. In addition, I deepened collaboration with Japanese government agencies, private companies, and Peruvian research institutions throughout the project undertaking, and accumulated extensive first-hand knowledge of the relationship between local politics and mining development in Peru.

Free Research Field

政治学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ペルーをはじめとする南米や途上国の鉱物資源供給国は、日本や他の工業国にとって重要な貿易相手国であり続けてきた。しかし、鉱物資源採掘には社会的インパクトが避けられず、とりわけ地元社会の人々がそれを受け入れるか、どのような条件で受け入れるのかをよく理解することは喫緊の課題と言える。本研究は、こうした点について、現在でも日系企業を始め多くの鉱山会社が活動を続けるペルーの４州において対面でのサーベイを行い、さらにコンジョイント実験を用いることで鉱業プロジェクトの受容について実証的な理解をもたらすという大きな貢献がある。とりわけ、従来の研究では十分でなかった手続的公正の意味を明らかにすることができた。