Toolkits & Guidance

Do No Harm: Excluding Conflict Minerals from the Supply Chain

2010 | Global Witness
Global Witness

This paper argues that the due diligence that companies using minerals or metals originating from eastern DRC needs to undertake consists of:

A conflict minerals policySupply…

Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Practitioners' Manual

2009 | Anne Hammill, Alec Crawford, Robert Craig, Robert Malpas, Richard Matthew (IISD)

The Albertine Rift is one of the most biodiverse and ecologically unique regions of Africa. Sadly it has also been the site of some of…

Recommended Strategy for Conflict Resolution of Competing High Pasture Claims of Settled and Nomadic Communities in Afghanistan

2009 | UNEP
Liz Alden Wily

This document lays out a possible road map for resolving the conflict between Pashtun nomads (Kuchi) and Hazara as to access to pastureland in the…

Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards

2009 | LEGS Project

The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) are a set of international guidelines and standards for the design, implementation and assessment of livestock interventions to…

The Enabling State: Collaborating for Success

2008 | Lucian J. Hudson (UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

This report is both a comprehensive account of what makes for effective collaboration and partnership between and within organizations, and a contribution to the debate…

Environmental Guidebook on Military Operations

2008 | DoD Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Network and Information Exchange (DENIX)
Hanna Uusitalo, Antti Kivipelto, Sara Kajander, Ava Sovijärvi, Carl-Gustav Ebbhagen, Svante Olsson, Annica Waleij, Birgitta Liljedahl, Åsa Scott Andersson, Timothy Bosetti, homas Schultheis, Susan Clark-Sestak & William Nicholls

This guidebook was developed by a multinational working group consisting of representatives from the defense organizations of Finland, Sweden, and the United States. It reflects…

Registering the Human Terrian: A Valuation of Cadastre

2008 | National Intelligence University
Douglas Batson

By tying a name to a place, a cadastre can answer the difficult “who” question: who is behind a given problem? A cadastre can also…

Natural Resources, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution

2007 | USIP

This study guide is designed to serve independent learners who want to find out more about international conflict and its resolution, as well as educators…

Land Tenure Alternative Conflict Management 

2006 | Adriana Herrera and Maria Guglielma da Passano (FAO)

The aim of this training manual is to acquaint practitioners with the main characteristics of a land tenure conflict, the context in which the conflict…

Decentralized Governance of Natural Resources

2006 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | USAID

Livelihoods and Conflict

2005 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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…