Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

Collaborative Conflict Management

The aim of the Collaborative Conflict Management Module is to assist conflict-management professionals, forest officers and other stakeholders in managing forest-related conflicts through collaborative approaches. It explains how to move beyond adversarial forest politics, resolve disputes and build positive relationships among forest stakeholders for the smooth planning and successful implementation of SFM.

The module also provides links to key tools and case studies of effective conflict management.

This publication seeks to support sustainable livelihoods in Africa and elsewhere by sharing the recent, real-life experience of Africans who have used the processes and principles of consensual negotiation to address natural resource conflicts. The case studies were carried out as part of a programme for building African capacity to...
The 12 cases presented here deal with a range of intervention strategies, methods and tools used to address community-based natural resource conflicts in a variety of social, environmental and regional settings. The collection includes cases from Africa, Asia and the Americas. The cases were selected by FONP as representative of...