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Introduction to Environmental Conflict Management

Facilitator: Peter Stephen
Dates: TBA. Please register your interest with IDSS.
  

Who is it for?

The course is suitable for program and project staff newly working in international aid and natural resource management projects; students of International, Community Development and/or Natural Resources Management; and volunteers. Some understanding of natural resource management or broader environmental issues is required, either through work experience or tertiary studies.
 

Course Description 

Development workers are increasingly being called upon to resolve disputes between governments, communities and the private sector over the management, access and distribution of natural resources and environmental services. An increasing population, a declining resource base and the impacts of climate change are unfortunately going to further increase both the number of conflicts and the intensity of these conflicts. Those working in the environmental fields understand these pressures, but there are also opportunities to work with resource managers to transform and manage environmental conflicts before they escalate into environmentally and socially damaging disputes.
 
This two day introduction course will focus on creating opportunities and strengthening people’s ability to resolve environmental conflicts, while helping to build positive relationships among disputing parties. The course will provide participants an insight into early warning signs of environmental conflicts and tools to help them analysis conflict and understanding. The course will allow participants to consider all appropriate responses to resolving or transforming the conflict, but will emphasise on how disputing stakeholders can reach a mutually satisfactory outcome by moving away from strident position statements to working with common underlying interests.
 
The course is an introduction to local disputes between stakeholders over resource management, access and use. It is not intended to skill participants in transforming violent conflicts or international environmental conflicts – even though many of the skills and processes considered in this training provide an excellent background to these types of environmental conflicts. 
 

Course Content

  • Defining and understanding environmental conflict;
  • Conflict management as a process and the role of collaboration;
  • Conflict analysis tools – helping us understand the many different views of a single conflict;
  • Understanding how stakeholders respond to conflict and assessing conflict management and transformation strategies;
  • Moving away from position statements to understanding where common interests may lie;
  • Can consensus be reached through mediation? 
  • Laying the ground work for a negotiated outcome.
 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course participants will be able to:
  • Understand that conflict management is a process; 
  • Implement various participatory conflict analysis tools to help understand environmental conflicts; 
  • Understand how various disputing stakeholders are responding to an environmental conflict and the most appropriate strategies to engage them; 
  • Examine various options available to manage or transform environmental conflict; 
  • Apply simple facilitation skills to assist stakeholders move from fixed positions to exploring underlying interests; 
  • Understand requirements necessary for a negotiated or mediated outcome to an environmental conflict; 
  • Apply the learning from the course to his/her own work/practise environment.
 

Course Fees

TBA 
  

Venue

TBA 

Registration:

Participants are requested to read the IDSS Training Policy before applying for registration/enrolment.

To register/enrol, download the Enrolment Form here and email your completed form through to training@idss.com.au
 
For additional information please contact:
 
Ruth Garner
Phone: + 61 8 8919 9767
Fax: + 61 8 8919 9750

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