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Since the beginning of the 1990s, African development and political security research and policy discourse has been dominated by issues of natural resource endowments, extraction, and receipts and the range of actors and processes involved, often unpacked as the natural resource “value chain.” The discourse throws up issues of natural resource governance—the framework of rules, institutions, and practices regulating the natural resource value chain and the extent to which key principles of transparency, openness, accountability, fairness, and environmental sustainability are observed in the extraction, movement, and receipts from natural resources. The plethora of research on natural resource in Africa focuses on its connections to armed conflicts and peace building. Phrases such as natural resource “curse” or conflict, and “paradox of plenty” have emerged to underscore the negative impacts of natural resource issues on state and society in Africa. Criminality in the natural resource value chain is generally, yet restrictively, subsumed within the discourse of its nexus with armed conflicts.
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Ismail, O., Okeke, J.M. (2014). Criminality in the Natural Resource Management Value/Supply Chain. In: Hanson, K.T., D’Alessandro, C., Owusu, F. (eds) Managing Africa’s Natural Resources. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137365613_4
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