War has been fought over environmental resources for as long as humans have existed... don't you think it's time for that to stop?

The UN declared Nov. 6

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

Here is a link to the resolutions (and statements) the UN made during it's introduction: http://www.un.org/en/events/environmentconflictday/documents.shtml ;
including:

• Resolution A/RES/56/4  declaring 6 November the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict 
• Statements made by members of the UN General Assembly during the introduction of the draft resolution (A/56/L.8) on the Observance of the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (A/56/PV.37, pp. 21-26)  

Policy Reports

• Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential 
• Greening the Blue Helmets (Executive Summary)
• Protecting the Environment During Armed Conflict: An Inventory and Analysis of International Law 
• From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment

Policy Briefs

• High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding 
• Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding 
• Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding 
• Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding 
• Natural Resource Programming in Post-Conflict Situations 

Guidance Notes

• Natural resource management in transition settings – UNDG/ ECHA Guidance Note: This guidance note aims to help UN Country teams and UN Missions understand the negative and positive roles that natural resources can play in peace consolidation. It provides practical guidance to assist in thinking through how natural resource management principles and practices can feed into transitional analysis and planning frameworks.
• The EU-UN partnership on Land and Natural Resource Conflicts has developed a number of practical guidance notes and training materials on land and conflict, extractives and conflict, renewable resources and conflict, capacity-building for natural resource management and conflict prevention in resource-rich economies.

Technical Reports/Assessments

• Relationships and Resources: Environmental governance for peacebuilding and resilient livelihoods in Sudan 
• Taking Root: The cash crop trade in Darfur 
• Local Level Agreements in Darfur: A review with reference to access and management of natural resources 
• Haiti - Dominican Republic: Environmental Challenges in the Border Zone 
• On the Hoof - Livestock Trade in Darfur
• Livelihood Security: Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in the Sahel (Executive Summary)
• Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland
• Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment of the Democratic Republic of Congo 
• Sierra Leone: Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding Analysis 
• Assessment of Energy, Water and Waste Reduction Options for the Proposed AMISOM HQ Camp in Mogadishu, Somalia and the Support Base in Mombasa, Kenya 

UN Resolutions and Declarations

• Protection of the environment in areas affected by armed conflict (UNEP/EA.2/Res.15)
  UN Resolution on Environmental Sustainability in Mali Peacekeeping Operations [S/RES/2100 (2013)]
• Environment and Security: a Global Agenda for UNEP [UNEP/GC.23/INF/21] 

Books and Case Studies

• Publications on Environmental Peacebuilding