New Online training: UN partners with EU in toolkit for preventing land and natural resources conflict

Jan 27, 2014 | European Union and United Nations Development Programme

The challenges associated with preventing, managing and resolving natural resource-induced conflicts may well come to define global peace and security in the 21st century. Global trends such as demographic changes, increasing consumption, environmental degradation and climate change, are placing significant and potentially unsustainable pressures on the availability and usability of natural resources such as land, water and ecosystems.

These are the challenges that the Partnership between the European Union and the United Nations aims to address through a multi-agency approach to prevent land and natural resources from contributing to the outbreak or continuation of violent conflict.

The United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action (FT), hosted by UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), has been managing the global UN-EU Partnership bringing together UN agencies and departments (DESA, DPA, PBSO, HABITAT, IOM, UNDP, and UNEP) and the EU’s Instrument for Stability (IfS) to support countries to improve natural resource management for conflict prevention and peace building.

Everyone can access the EU-UN practical guidance notes and training material on land and conflict, extractives and conflict, renewable resources and conflict, capacity-building for natural resources and conflict prevention in resource rich economies via the new EU-UN website.  In addition to the online training, the website also provides a comprehensive set of tools for colleagues in the field and HQ to respond to the increasing need for working with national partners on natural resources and land. 

EU-UN website available at: http://www.un.org/en/land-natural-resources-conflict/

For further information or to avail of other project services, please contact:  framework.team@undp.org.