Regional cooperation on environment, economy and natural resource management: How can it contribute to peacebuilding?

The cluster ‘Regional Cooperation on environment, economy and natural resource management’ has been looking at the role regional cooperation initiatives in these three areas can play in peacebuilding. The cluster’s work primarily focuses on researching initiatives in the Andean Region of Latin America, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, the Middle East and the South Caucasus.
This synthesis report highlights and extracts common patterns from these case studies. The first and second sections of this synthesis report introduce different types of regional cooperation and briefly summarise the opportunities for each cooperation area. The third section discusses important obstacles to regional cooperation. The report then makes recommendations to policy-makers designing new or overseeing existing initiatives with the aim of contributing to peacebuilding.