Toolkits & Guidance
Decentralized Governance of Natural Resources
2006
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UNDP
The publication focuses on lessons learned about risks, constraints and opportunities in the decentralization process, and on the best approaches and practices from the various…
Conflict Management over Natural Resources: Capacity Building Programme Under the Community-based Rural Development Project
2006
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FAO
The purpose of this training manual is to provide a capacity building framework and tools to support the technical and operational implementation of the conflict…
Trans-boundary Water Cooperation as a Tool for Conflict Prevention and for Broader Benefit-sharing
2006
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David Phillips, Marwa Daoudy, Stephen McCaffrey, Joakim Öjendal and Anthony Turton
The report concerns trans-boundary (international) waters, and provides an analysis on whether cooperation concerning such waters may constitute a tool for the prevention of broader…
Aiding Trading of Abetting? Promoting Conflict-Sensitive Business
2006
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International Institute for Sustainable Development and The World Conservation Union
International Institute for Sustainable Development and The World Conservation Union
The liberalization of global trade and investment has led to an unprecedented upsurge in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide. Nearly all international trade is conducted…
Aiding Trading of Abetting? Designing Conflict-Sensitive Trade Policy
2006
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International Institute for Sustainable Development and The World Conservation Union
International Institute for Sustainable Development and The World Conservation Union
Designing trade policies that diminish the likelihood or longevity of violent conflict is a critical task for the international community. In theory, trade can be…
Land and Conflict
2005
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USAID
Livelihoods and Conflict
2005
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USAID
The toolkit identifies the key issues and methods for understanding the common impact of conflict on livelihoods and the ways one can address the most…
Forests and Conflict
2005
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USAID
This toolkit is par t of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. One area that is…
Negotiation and Mediation Techniques for Natural Resources
2005
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FAO
This guide looks at how negotiation and consensus building can be used to manage conflict and build collaboration. The guide provides practical, step-by-step advice on…
Minerals and Conflict
2005
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USAID
This toolkit is part of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. One area that is receiving…
Conflict-Sensitive Business Practice: Guidance for Extractive Industries
2005
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International Alert
Jessica Banfield, Adam Barbolet, Rachel Goldwyn and Nick Killick
Oil, mining and natural gas companies often invest in conflict-prone societies – the nature of their business setting some limits on choice of risk profile.…
Minerals and conflict
2004
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USAID
This toolkit is part of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. One area that is receiving…
Conflict-Sensitive Business Practice: Towards the Integration of Conflict Assessment and Prevention in Extractive Industry Practice
2004
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R. Goldwyn and J. Switzer
For oil, gas and mining companies operating in areas of potential or open conflict, there are clear bottom-line and ethical drivers compelling them to manage…
Collective Action for Managing Natural Resources
2004
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Helle Munk Ravnborg, Maria del Pilar Guerrero & Olaf Westermann (DANIDA and IDRC)
The manual offers methodological tools that help to foster dialogue on natural resource management in a given area. It points out strategies to facilitate dialogue and ways to integrate stakeholders. The manual gives
detailed practical advice that helps the practitioner with initiating and supporting a process towards integrated wealth management.
Bottom of the Barrel: Africa's Oil Boom and the Poor
2003
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Ian Gary and Terry Lynn Karl, Catholic Relief Service
To improve outcomes for the poor, all actors need to change some of their practices and work together in a more concerted manner. Unless the…
Community‐based Forest Resource Conflict Management
2002
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Katherine Means, Cynthia Josayma (FAO)
This training package examines conflict within forest resource use and community-based forest management and offers strategies for managing it. In forest resource management, conflict in…
Transboundary Protected Areas for Peace and Co-operation
2001
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Trevor Sandwith, Claire Shrine, Lawrence Hamilton, and David Sheppard (IUCN)
Protected areas are vital for life on earth. They safeguard biological and cultural diversity, help to improve the livelihoods of local communities, provide the homelands…
Beyond Boundaries: Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
2001
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H. van der Linde, J. Oglethorpe, T. Sandwith, D. Snelson, and Y. Tessema
Interest is rapidly growing in transboundary natural resource management (TBNRM) as a way to improve natural resource management and biodiversity conservation, and promote regional economic…
Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets
1999
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DFID
The livelihoods framework is a tool to improve our understanding of livelihoods, particularly the livelihoods of the poor. It was developed over a period of…
Parks for Peace
1997
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IUCN WCPA
IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas outlines the Declaration of Principles for peace parks, agreed upon during a conference convened to discuss cases of melding…
Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention in Development Co-operation: Tip Sheet on the Links between Pastoral Livelihoods & Conflict Prevention
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Michele Nori, Alec Crawford, and Jason Switzer
Pastoralism, practiced on a quarter of the globe’s surface, is critically dependent upon access to and conditions of range resources. Development co-operation can support conflict…