Access to and distribution of natural resources have been since immemorable time at the root of violent conflict. Over the last few decades, international institutions, legal scholars and civil society started to pay attention to the dangerous liaison between resource commodities and wars. Current debates emphasize how, through sanctions, global regulatory initiatives, and legal accountability, the governance of natural resources in conflict and post-conflict countries has improved, although international law should play a greater role to support the transition to a durable peace. The aim of this article is to illuminate the biases and limitations of dominant accounts by exploring the influence of the resource curse thesis, and its hidden propositions, upon legal developments. Using the Sierra Leonean and Liberian Truth Commissions as a case study, it shows how legal practices and discourses have contributed to a narrow understanding of resource-driven wars as started by voracious rebel groups or caused by weak/authoritarian/corrupt governments. What is obscured by the current focus on greed and ineffective resource governance? What responsibilities and forms of violence are displaced? Engaging with these questions allows us to see the dynamics through which structural injustices and distributive concerns are marginalized in existing responses to these conflicts, how the status quo is perpetuated, and the more subtle ways in which external interventions in the political economy of the Global South take place.

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国际法、富足悖论和资源驱动冲突的制造

自然资源的获取和分配一直是暴力冲突的根源。在过去的几十年里，国际机构、法律学者和民间社会开始关注资源商品与战争之间的危险联系。当前的辩论强调，通过制裁、全球监管举措和法律问责，冲突和冲突后国家的自然资源治理如何得到改善，尽管国际法应在支持向持久和平过渡方面发挥更大作用。本文的目的是通过探索资源诅咒理论及其隐藏的命题对法律发展的影响来阐明主导账户的偏见和局限性。以塞拉利昂和利比里亚真相委员会为案例研究，它显示了法律实践和话语如何促成对资源驱动型战争的狭隘理解，这种战争是由贪婪的反叛团体发动的或由软弱/专制/腐败的政府引起的。当前对贪婪和无效资源治理的关注掩盖了什么？哪些责任和暴力形式被取代？参与这些问题可以让我们看到结构性不公正和分配问题在对这些冲突的现有反应中被边缘化的动态，如何 当前对贪婪和无效资源治理的关注掩盖了什么？哪些责任和暴力形式被取代？参与这些问题可以让我们看到结构性不公正和分配问题在对这些冲突的现有反应中被边缘化的动态，如何 当前对贪婪和无效资源治理的关注掩盖了什么？哪些责任和暴力形式被取代？参与这些问题可以让我们看到结构性不公正和分配问题在对这些冲突的现有反应中被边缘化的动态，如何现状持续存在，以及外部干预全球南方政治经济的更为微妙的方式。