The lack of engagement with local communities is at the root of many conflicts arising in the extractives industry.
When foreign investors come to a host country in order to establish their company in this sector, they usually negotiate directly with governments and only rarely with local communities, according to Luis Ore, a Peruvian mediator, negotiation trainer and expert in cross-cultural stakeholder engagement, who singled out mining as particularly problematic.
Mining, he told Devex, “is like a chair with three legs, where the other three are not engaging properly with the leg that is a problem.”
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Eva Donelli
As a correspondent based in Brussels, Eva Donelli covers EU development policy issues and actors, from the EU institutions to the international NGO community. Eva was previously at the United Nations Regional Information Center for Western Europe and in the European Parliament's press office. As a freelance reporter, she has contributed to Italian and international magazines covering a wide range of issues, including EU affairs, development policy, social protection and nuclear energy. She speaks fluent English, French and Spanish in addition to her native Italian.
