AUTHOR: United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action
LAST UPDATED: 2012
TYPE OF TOOL: Handbook
KEYWORDS: environmental management, conflict sensitivity, land and land use, water, fuel and
energy, minerals, impact assessment, United Nations Interagency Framework Team for Preventive
Action, handbook
FORMAT: Downloadable PDF files
LANGUAGES: English
WEB LINK:
http://www.un.org/en/land-natural-resources-conflict/
Strengthening capacity for conflict sensitive natural resource management:
http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/GN_Capacity_Consultation.pdf
Managing and preventing conflicts over extractive industries:
http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/GN_Extractive_Consultation.pdf
Managing and preventing conflicts over land:
http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/GN_Land_Consultation.pdf
Managing and preventing conflicts over renewable resources:
http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/GN_Renewable_Consultation.pdf
Managing and preventing conflicts in resource-rich economies:
http://www.un.org/en/land-natural-resources-conflict/pdfs/Resource%20Rich%20Economies.pdf
Capacity Inventory:
http://www.un.org/en/land-natural-resources-conflict/pdfs/Capacity%20Inventory.pdf
ABOUT THE TOOL: These four guidance notes, prepared as part of a UN partnership with the
European Union, provide recommended guidelines for addressing natural resources management
and conflict prevention. The notes focus, respectively, on (1) strengthening capacity for conflict
sensitive natural resource management; (2) managing and preventing conflicts over extractive
industries; (3) managing and preventing conflicts over land; and (4) managing and preventing
conflicts over renewable resources. Each note is structured around a series of case examples and
provides additional resources and recommended reading.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: “The United Nations (UN) Interagency Framework Team for Preventive
Action (the Framework Team) is an internal UN support mechanism that promotes interagency
collaboration on early preventive action by: (i) assisting UN Resident Coordinators (RC) and UN
Country Teams (UNCT) with the development of integrated strategies for proactively working with
national partners to strengthen their capacities to mediate and manage potentially divisive issues; (ii)
serving as a forum to address key crosscutting thematic issues in the fields of conflict transformation
that are of interest to its member agencies; and (iii) supporting system-wide strengthening of conflict
prevention measures through awareness-raising, experiencesharing and knowledge development
through the UN Conflict Prevention Community of Practice (CP-CoP). Operational since 1995, the
Framework Team is currently composed of 22 UN departments, agencies, funds and programmes
that work together to support the development of interagency conflict prevention/transformation
initiatives.”
INTENDED USER: “UN and EU policy-makers and practitioners who design and implement
programmes in situations where environmental drivers are a major cause of, or contributing factor to,
conflict.”