United States: Web links and publications relating to conflict prevention and fragile states

Links:

• United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Home
  • Office for conflict management and mitigation 
• Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization - Home

Publications (USAID or USAID-supported):

Conflict-related publications, including toolkits

 Understanding conflict prevention and peace-building:

• Conducting a Conflict Assessment: A Framework for Analysis and Program Development (2004)
• Operating in Conflict: Current Practices in the Development Community (2003)
• Guide to Program Options in Conflict-Prone Settings (2001)
• Developing a More Effective Conflict Prevention Capacity in an Increasingly Unstable World (2000)
• Human Security: A Framework for Assessment In Conflict and Transition (2000)

 Governance and participation issues:

• The Effectiveness of Civil Society Initiatives in Controlling Violent Conflicts and Building Peace (2001)
• Elections and Conflict: An Issues Paper (2001)
• Conducting a Democracy and Governance Assessment (2000) 

 Security system reform (including justice :

• Demilitarization, Demobilization, and the Social and Economic Integration of Ex-combatants: Lessons from the World Bank Africa Experience (1997)

 Environment, conflict and peace

Toolkits:

These "toolkits" explain the connections between the focus area and conflict and aim to provide USAID missions with access to concrete, practical program options, lessons learned, and information about potential partners, mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation tools for implementing more effective conflict programs.

• Land and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention (2004)
• Minerals and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention (2004)
• Forests and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention (2005) 

Other:

• Conflict Timber: Dimensions of the Problem in Asia and Africa: Volume I Synthesis Report (2004)
• The Trampled Grass: Mitigating the impacts of armed conflict on the environment (2001)

 Social drivers of conflict:

• Youth and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention (2004)
• Trafficking in persons: The USAID Strategy for Response (2003)