No development, no peace

[Christoph]

Anyone interested in peacemaking, poverty reduction, and Africa's future should read the new United Nations environment programme (UNEP) report Sudan: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment. This may sound like a technical report on Sudan's environment, but it is also a vivid study of how the natural environment, poverty, and population growth can interact to provoke terrible human-made disasters like the violence in Darfur...

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeffrey_sachs/2007/07/no_development_no_peace.html