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 builds on the companion handbook (FAO, 2012), which describes the framework and processes for managing public disputes related to nfps. The manual 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.