The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo in collaboration with the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) is organising a joint workshop under the ARUA-Guild CoRE collaboration on the topic “Critical Minerals, Energy and Conflict”. Natural resources play a paradoxical role in contemporary conflict dynamics. To have a holistic understanding of conflict while appreciating the role and characteristics of natural resources, it is important to establish the dynamics and relationship between security and natural resources. The proposed workshop will critically examine the conditions that position critical minerals and energy as a source of conflict, within conflict economies, in interstate conflicts and the governance of transnational resources and standards associated with good policy practices.