Issues Briefs on preventing conflict and building peace


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Go directly to issues briefs under the following loose (and often overlapping) categories:
Understanding conflict prevention and peace-building - Governance and participation issues - 
Security system reform (including justice) - Environment, conflict and peace - Social drivers of conflict

The CPDC Network is producing concise and accessible guidance on a range of topics. This "Manual of Issues and Entry-Points" contains "Issues Briefs" drafted by CPDC participant agencies and are approved by the Network as a whole. For use by development agency staff, diplomats and state and non-state partners, these issues briefs aim to:

  • Help individuals working in, and on, conflict prone and conflict affected countries and extend their understanding of the inter-relationship between their activities and the dynamics of conflict and peace.
  • Outline entry-points and provide programme advice to address the challenges faced when implementing projects at field level.
  • Gather good practices by agencies and other international actors in different contexts.
  • Suggest sources for working in partnership and for further information.

See also a one page introduction

Click here for the Manual containing all the Issues Briefs, in PDF.

The individual Issues Briefs are ordered into the following loose categories:

Understanding conflict prevention and peace-building

These issues briefs aim to promote a culture of conflict prevention in all policy areas, including development co-operation, foreign affairs, defence, and trade.

  • An Overview of Peace-building - PDF * 
  • Poverty assessments - PDF * 

See also related publications from participant agencies

Governance and participation

  • Democratisation - PDF * 
  • Dialogue - PDF * 
  • Institutional change - PDF * 
  • Civil society PDF * 

See also related publications from participant agencies.

 Security system reform (including justice)

  • An introduction to Security System Reform (SSR) - PDF * 
  • Small arms and light weapons - PDF * 
  • Equal Access to Justice and the Rule of Law - PDF * 

See also related publications from participant agencies

 Environment, conflict and peace

  • An overview of the links between the environment, conflict and peace - PDF * 
  • Land - PDF * 
  • Forests - PDF * 
  • Valuable minerals - PDF * 
  • Water - PDF * 

See also related publications from participant agencies

 re Social drivers of conflict

  • Reconciliation - PDF * 

See also related publications from participant agencies.

Issues Briefs on other topics will be made available on this page in the coming months.

(*) These PDF documents include links to other internet resources, including external web sites and publications.

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