CCP and Other Conflict News

June 2013
Welcome to the June update which is guest edited by Berlinda Nolles of the CARE Nederlandteam. This edition features some two new journal articles focusing on land conflict, and managing natural resources to prevent conflict. This continues the theme started at the CCP workshop in March. Those discussions are now available to read in the workshop final report, which is now on the wiki. In advocacy news, CI is preparing responses on the High Level Panel report on the post 2015 MDGs. They propose a new Peace goal. What do you think? Your thoughts are welcome. Please continue to share resources and help to make this community a valuable resource for CARE
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Featured Resource: Land issues in post-conﬂict return and recovery -Samir Elhawary and Sara Pantuliano Download(Sign into google to read)

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This paper is part of a global initiative that identifies lessons learned in managing natural resources to facilitate the transition to peace. It argues that current approaches of post-conflict recovery have not taken land issues sufficiently into account. This paper looks at the relationship between land and conflict, highlighting the implications for humanitarian responses to displacement. Focusing on examples from Afghanistan, Colombia, DR Congo, East Timor, Rwanda and Sudan it charts ways in which humanitarians can better integrate land issues into their programming and more successfully support broader recovery from conflict. One of the recommendations of the authors, is that humanitarian organisations should not merely focus on restitution and compensation for refugees and IDPs, but should look at wider structural issues, such as competition for land, demographic pressure, land registration issues and inadequate land laws. (in: Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (2013):115). The chapter is available for freeif you sign into google, and earlier articles by Sara Pantuliano which cover similar ground can be found on the ODI website here:

CCP and other Conflict News

The full report of the March 2013 CCP workshop is now available on the wiki.The report summarises the presentations, discussions and extracts conclusions from the event in Sri Lanka. It has been written for an audience who were not there and represents a synthesis of the learning at the event. Chapters are: Concepts, Land Conflict, Resilience, Governance and Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity and Accountability (including M&E of Conflict sensitivity), and Security and Justice Sector Reform.
CCP Evaluation. CIUK is revising its strategy and the work and role of the Conflict Team is being reviewed. Please add your thoughts by responding to an evaluation survey of the CCP which will be live for the next few weeks. The link is here CCP People Moves:Rachel Goldwyn, Conflict team leader at CARE UK for 9 years, left CARE in May to work independently as a consultant. In the same month, Cristal Bultman moved from CARE NL as Peacebuilding Programme Director, to be Deputy Regional Director Programme Quality of WARMU. We wish them all the best.
Training: The Institute of Peace and Diplomacy offer a training on peacebuilding September 1 to 11, 2013. For more information look at their brochure here.

Conflict Advocacy News

CI Advocacy Strategies on Women, Peace & Security (WPS), and Sexual Reproductive and Maternal Health (SRMH) Approved by EXCOM. In May, Excom approved the strategies for both themes that it had made priorities in 2010. Workplans for FY14 are being developed for both strategies, for which the process started at the March global advocacy meeting. CI-UK leads on WPS and C-USA and C-Peru the one on SRMH, in close collaboration with the CI Secretariat. Information on the WPS strategy can be found on the wiki here. Or on Minerva SRMH; WPS:

Post 2015 MDGs: A new global partnership: eradicate poverty and transform economies through sustainable development: In the new Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, recommendations are made to stimulate debate over the prioritisation that will be needed if the international community is to agree on a new developmentframework before the expiry of the Millennium Development Goals. In this report five transformational shifts are outlined, among which a change to “buildpeace and effective, open and accountableinstitutions for all.” The report calls for a “…fundamental shift – to recognize peace and good governance as core elements of wellbeing, not optional extras”. CARE’s response to the report is being drafted, with an early version welcoming the recognition that violence impedes development but asking for a greater focus on women as part of the solution for peacebuilding. If you have additional thoughts you would like to feed in, please email Howard Mollett at

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Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework – International journal of the commons vol 7, no.1 (2013). An interesting article on the link between natural resource management and peacebuilding/conflict prevention. While the role of environmental resources as a causal factor in civil conflict has been assessed by various researchers, analysis of the positive potential of collective natural resource management efforts to reduce broader conflict is less developed. In this article a framework of collective action, conflict prevention, and social-ecological resilience, linking local stakeholder dynamics to the broader institutional and governance context, is therefore presented. The framework aims to provide insight into the problem of (re)building legitimacy of common-pool resource management institutions in conflict-sensitive environments. It can be applied in stakeholder-based problem assessment and planning, participatory monitoring and evaluation, and multi-case comparative analysis. Find it on the wiki in the land conflict section.

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