Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. Oil and armed conflict in Casanare, Colombia: Schulze 6 Oil and armed conflict in Casanare, Colombia: It was held in the British Museum in the room where the Elgin Marbles are displayed. He turned out to be the Managing Director, Chris Gibson-Smith, and he explained that I had been invited because BP had decided to become a human rights company. That was the origin of this book.
To ensure objectivity, we sought independent funding. The Ford Founda- tion provided an initial grant for the research. We also received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled us to hold a meeting at Bellagio, the Italian villa owned by the Foundation, where we presented our case studies to oil industry executives.
Many of the policy recommendations in the conclusion result from that meeting. Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically we just had no choice in Iraq.
The country swims on a sea of oil. Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary, Oil has literally made foreign and security policy for decades. Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy, Iraq is sitting on top of the second-largest proven oil reserves in the world.
Whatever role security of oil supplies played in the thinking of policy makers, three years after the invasion it is evident that the global energy supply is neither more stable nor more secure. Despite promises to the contrary, they have stayed high over an extended period of time. As Iraq threat- ens to descend into chaos and become like another ungovernable Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups are now in a better position to disrupt oil supplies from the entire region.
