Toolkits & Guidance

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…