Understanding Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

See also the DAC Guidelines - Helping Prevent Violent Conflict and the Human Security Report 2005

See below for sources referenced in the issues briefs on:
An overview of Peace-building - Poverty Assessment - 

OECD:

Training Modules:

• Conflict Prevention and Peace-building Manual for Trainers (2007)
• Conflict Prevention and Peace-building Manual for Trainees (2007)

Participant Documents:

The following documents have been published by CPDC participants in line with the shared objectives of (i) improving understanding of conflict prevention and peace-building concepts and methods, and (ii) integrating an awareness of conflict-related issues in all policy areas, including development co-operation, foreign affairs, defence and trade:

 European Commission:

• Check-list for Root Causes of Conflict (2001)

 Germany:

• Action Plan on Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Peace-Building (2004)
• Joint Utstein study of peace-building: National report on Germany (2003)
• Towards Gender Mainstreaming in Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management: Guidelines for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ 2001)

 Japan:

• JICA Thematic guidance on peace-building assistance

 Netherlands:

• Poverty and Conflict: An Entitlement Perspective (Clingendael 2001)

 Norway:

• Peacebuilding: a Development Perspective

 Sweden: 

• How to Conduct a Conflict Analysis - Conflict-sensitive Development Co-operation (2004)
• Reflections on development co-operation and violent conflict (2003)
• Conflict Management in Latin America (in English and Spanish) (2003)

 Switzerland:

 United Kingdom:

• Conducting Conflict Assessments: Guidance Notes (2002) 

 United States:

• 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)

 United Nations:

• Conflict Analysis Framework (follow-up from the Joint UNDG-ECHA Working Group on Transition, 2004).
• Practical Guide to Multilateral Needs Assessment in Post-Conflict Situations - (UNDP, UN Development Group, World Bank 2004)
• An Operational Note on Transitional Results Matrices: Using Results-Based Frameworks in Fragile States (UNDG /World Bank 2005).
• Security Council Presidential Statements on peace-building, particularly the statement of 20 February 2001
• Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security (2000)
• Prevention of Armed Confict (2000)
• The Millennium Declaration(2000)
• The Brahimi Report on UN Peace Operations (2000)
• UNHCR’s Operational Framework for Repatriation and Reintegration Activities in Post-Conflict Situations (1998)
• Supplement to an Agenda for Peace (1994)
• An Agenda for Peace. Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peacekeeping (1992)
• UNIFEM

 World Bank Group:

• Conflict analysis
• PovertyNet
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers in Conflict-affected Countries
  • Toward A Conflict-Sensitive Poverty Reduction Strategy (2005)
• Developing Poverty Reduction Strategies in Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS 2005)
• Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty: A Handbook for Practitioners (2000)
• Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy

• Gender and conflict - [see also the OECD DAC Network on Gender Equality]

Sources referenced in the issues brief on an Overview of Peace-building:

• Smith, Dan (2003) Getting Their Act Together. Towards a Strategic Framework for Peace-building. Overview report of the joint Utstein study of peace-building, International Peace Research Institute

Sources referenced in the issues brief on Poverty Asessment:

• Asian Development Bank (2004) Evolving Views on Poverty: Concept, Assessment, and Strategy
• Chronic Poverty Research Centre
• FEWER, International Alert and Saferworld: Conflict-Sensitive Approaches to Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Peace-Building Resources - A Resource Pack
• International Development Association and International Monetary Fund (2002) - Good Practices for PRSP Design and Implementation: A Summary for Practitioners 
• Njeru E (2004) -  Bridging the Qualitative-Quantitative Methods of Poverty Analysis
• Overseas Development Institute (2003) Strategic Framework for Engagement in National Poverty Reduction Strategies in Conflict-Affected Areas, Attachment to Briefing Note No 6
• Stewart F. (2000) Crisis Prevention: Tackling Horizontal Inequalities - QEH Working Paper No. 33