Security, Development and Forest Conflict

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The forum on Security, Development, and Forest Conflict was hosted by the International Crisis Group and Fiona Hall MEP in Brussels on 8 and 9 February 2006.

The forum is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and the Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in partnership with the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN), and ARD, Inc.

Objectives

The forum brought representatives from the defence, diplomatic, and development communities together to:

• Raise awareness of the different approaches of these communities to conflict in forest areas, and identify complementarities and synergies;
• Evaluate the implications of conflict in forest areas for security and development;
• Present current work in this area and identify effective responses to local-level conflict, armed conflict, and post-conflict conditions in forest areas;
• Identify follow-up actions, including collaboration between participants in specific countries and regions, and new approaches to programming guidance and policy development.

Forest Conflict Links

In this section you will find:

• direct links to online resources of the institutions involved;
• an overview article on forests and armed conflict by CIFOR director David Kaimowitz;
• a list of online publications by various organisations for further background reading;
• and the table of contents with direct links to articles of the special edition of ETFRN News on forests and conflicts.