Livelihood Conflicts: Linking poverty and environment as causes of conflict

Poverty increasingly is caused by environmental scarcities of arable land and water,
resulting in loss of livelihoods. A common denominator for causes of conflict in
many recent internal wars is the loss of livelihoods resulting in young men being
unable to reach the positions in life earlier generations of men could expect. Policy
attempts to break the vicious path to conflict need to address both poverty and environmental issues. Reconstruction of exhausted environmental resources will work
towards both these ends.
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