Author Engel, A.

Year of publication 2012

This manual is for trainers conducting training courses on collaborative conflict management for enhanced national forest programmes (nfps). It provides guidelines for designing and conducting training courses for practitioners involved in managing conflict related to forest policy. It suggests a general framework for a five-day course and provides training activities, questions that training participants in conflict management workshops often ask, and a sample training agenda. Training activities are based on experiential learning approaches with a strong emphasis on: promote the participation of diverse or competing stakeholder groups in order to reach agreement on a controversial issue to which all nfp stakeholders are committed; active participation in learning activities; interactive group work that supports shared learning by trainers, resource people and other participants; methods that can be applied immediately in participants’ work spheres. Newcomers may decide to use the whole package, and follow the suggested sequence of sessions day by day and step by step. More experienced trainers can pick what they find interesting and build their own training schedule and methods. Instead of promoting a formula, the training material aims to assist participants by reviewing the basic requirements and principles for dialogue processes and providing practical theory, guidelines and useful tools for analysing problems, building consensus and solving conflicts collaboratively.