Forest resources and peacebuilding: Preliminary lessons from Liberia and Sierra Leone

High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 384-407

  Beevers, Michael D ^a  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84925708343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849775786     Document Type: Chapter

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