Toolkits & Guidance

Conflict-Sensitive Business Practice: Guidance for Extractive Industries

2005 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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…