Sustainable Development Law and Policy: Exploring How Today´s Development Affects Future Generations Around the Globe

In This Issue: Natural Resource Conflicts 4 | Introductory Comments: The Pervasive, Persistent, and Profound Links Between Conflict and the Environment by Carroll Muffett and Carl Bruch 7 | Natural Resources Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Question of Governance? by Clementine Burnley 13 | Bankrupting Peace Spoilers: What Role for UN Peacekeepers? by Philippe Le Billon 19 | High-value Natural Resources: A Blessing or a Curse for Peace? by Päivi Lujala and Siri Aas Rustad 24 | Liquid Challenges: Contested Water in Central Asia by Christine Bichsel 32 | Natural Resource “Conflicts” in the U.S. Southwest: A Story of Hype Over Substance by Laura Peterson, Jay C. Lininger, Marty Bergoffen, Bill Snape, and Curt Bradley 37 | Cuban Offshore Drilling: Preparation and Prevention Within the Framework of the United States’ Embargo by Richard Sadowski 41 | Threats to a Sustainable Future: Water Accumulation and Conflict in Latin America by Rutgerd Boelens, Mourik Bueno de Mesquita, Antonio Gaybor and Francisco Peña 46 | Collaboration and the Ecology of Democracy by Daniel Kemmis and Matthew McKinney