UN spends $32 Billion on Natural Resource-Related Conflicts
A new report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on May 1st, 2012, titled ‘Greening the Blue Helmets: Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations’, disclosed that peacekeeping operations to address conflicts fuelled by natural resources have cost the UN system about $32 billion since the 1940s. Most of the natural resources-related conflicts [...]












