This briefing paper has been commissioned by the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a briefing series on natural resources and conflict. It emerged from a collaboration between Adelphi Research (Berlin, Germany), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (Bogor, Indonesia), and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC, USA). The aim of the briefings is twofold: (1) to raise mission employees’ awareness of the links between different natural resources and conflict, and (2) to assist USAID in their program development by integrating conflict prevention and natural resource management. The project has been coordinated by Alexander Carius (Adelphi Research), Geoffrey Dabelko (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), and Doris Capistrano (CIFOR). The briefing paper has been written by Annika Kramer (Adelphi Research). The URLs provided in this paper were last updated 03/15/2004.