Increased capacities in conflict management and resolution in tertiary agricultural and natural resource management institutions can lead to a shift towards sustainable forestry and natural resource management. The ability to manage and resolve conflicts in a peaceful, participatory and equitable manner allows for more access to and better management of natural resources. Long-term, socio-economic and political factors that constrain local participation in conflict management processes may require attention as well, through appropriate reform of policy, legislation, institutions and other areas of the policy environment.

Against this background, a training course for Educators on forest and natural resource – based conflict management for Tertiary institutions was developed by FAO and the NFP Facility. The training is based on collaborative procedures such as consensual negotiation and mediation to address and resolve conflicts related to national forest programs.

Objectives:
The objective of the training is to improve the capability of selected educators in tertiary agricultural and natural resource management institutions on the delivery of collaborative conflict management training.

Target audience:
Lecturers on conflict management, with practical experiences in the design and implementation of training programmes.

Expected outputs:
More specifically, this training initiative is aimed at enhancing participants' skills in:

• principles, steps and process of the Harvard method of negotiation and its scope of application;
• analysis of own interests and those of the other party and negotiate and build agreements effectively;
• increase participants' understanding of the role of a mediator and how a mediator can assist consensual negotiations; and
• effectiveness of experiential training methodologies for adult learning.