Model CCI:

Debating Democratic Devolution

Topic to debate on University Level

Natural Resources:

1. What part could be played by the center in coordinating the efforts from all the provinces to share
natural resources and get a reasonable compensation?
2. How to increase the understanding of the complex relationship between natural resources and conflict
and the challenges to addressing them?
3. What should be the strategies for conflict prevention, management, and resolution of issues related to
natural resources?

What you need to do:

Natural and energy resources have critically been debated in the federal systems around the world. Pakistan is
one of those countries where such topics remained serious point of disagreement. This has led to hindrances in
having a more streamlined coordination on economic growth. Moreover, the idea of decentralization of natural
resource management refers that local and community-level institutions have become assertive in managing
the local resources. The approach of decentralization has significant implications for resource tenure. Besides
these implications, changes in resource tenure affect the entire social fabric of communities. Also, in Pakistan,
climate change and water governance are going to impact the availability of water resources in the coming years.
Scarcity and monopolies over water resources are both potential flashpoints for conflict, and policies need to be
enacted to prevent climate- and resource-related issue.

You need to come up with a policy through which the center could play a more active role in collaboration of
the efforts of each province with other to harmonize the process of resource sharing. Also, come up with policies
which could be implemented at provincial level by each province to promote better understanding of each other
and to compensate fairly those provinces which are rich in energy resources in return of their supply and to
prevent climate crisis in Pakistan.

Useful Links:
- Conflict over energy production; kalabagh dam, a case study:

http://stud.epsilon.slu.se/5142/11/muhammad_u_121218.pdf

- Reasons for conflicts on natural resources:

https://www.sdpi.org/publications/files/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20A111.pdf

- Economic growth, natural resources, and ecological footprints: evidence from Pakistan

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-010-9569-0

- Dynamic interaction between financial development and natural resources: Evaluating the ‘Resource
curse’ hypothesis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142071930621X

- Natural resources of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/M_Sadiq_Malkani/publication/283425092_Natural_Resources_of_Khy
ber_Pakhtunkhwa_Gilgit-Baltistan_and_Azad_Kashmir_Pakistan/links/5a93dac545851535bcd97f1d/Natural-
Resources-of-Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa-Gilgit-Baltistan-and-Azad-Kashmir-Pakistan.pdf

- Mineral Resources of Pakistan: A Review

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/M_Sadiq_Malkani/publication/305942087_Mineral_Resources_of_Paki
stan_A_Review/links/5a92746c0f7e9ba4296e199e/Mineral-Resources-of-Pakistan-A-Review.pdf

- Mineral Resources of Pakistan: Provinces and Basins Wise

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/M_Sadiq_Malkani/publication/315834509_Mineral_Resources_of_Paki
stan_Provinces_and_Basins_wise/links/5a9264dfa6fdccecff044ec2/Mineral-Resources-of-Pakistan-Provinces-
and-Basins-wise.pdf

- Coal Resources of Pakistan: new coalfields

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/M_Sadiq_Malkani/publication/315707554_Coal_Resources_of_Pakista
n_new_coalfields/links/58dd8e80a6fdcc3c6abf96a4/Coal-Resources-of-Pakistan-new-coalfields.pdf

- Effect of Natural Resources on Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis

http://www.aessweb.com/pdf-files/AJEM20219(1)29-47.pdf

- Green growth initiative will lead toward sustainable development of natural resources in Pakistan: an
investigation of “billion tree tsunami afforestation project”

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanwal_Kharl/publication/325013014_GREEN_GROWTH_INITATIVE_WI
LL_LEAD_TOWARD_SUSTAINABLE_DEVELOPMENT_OF_NATURAL_RESOURCES_IN_PAKISTAN_AN_INVESTGATI
ON_OF_BILLION_TREE_TSUNAMI_AFFORESTATION_PROJECT/links/5b486672aca272c6093bf90c/GREEN-
GROWTH-INITATIVE-WILL-LEAD-TOWARD-SUSTAINABLE-DEVELOPMENT-OF-NATURAL-RESOURCES-IN-
PAKISTAN-AN-INVESTGATION-OF-BILLION-TREE-TSUNAMI-AFFORESTATION-PROJECT.pdf

- Ethnobotanical Studies of Selected Plant Species of Ratwal Village, District Attock, Pakistan

http://www.pakbs.org/pjbot/PDFs/43(2)/PJB43(2)0781.pdf

- Could Water be a Flashpoint for Conflict in Pakistan?

https://www.usip.org/publications/2021/01/could-water-be-flashpoint-conflict-pakistan

- Ownership and Management of Natural Resources in Federal Systems: Challenges, Prospects and a
Way Forward For Balochistan

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234668879.pdf