Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Conflict Prevention

UNDP helps address the structural causes of violent conflict through development programmes that promote participation, dispute resolution and gender equality. By integrating a conflict sensitive approach, development programmes can ‘facilitate the creation of opportunities and the political, economic and social spaces within which indigenous actors can identify, develop and use the resources necessary to build a peaceful, equitable and just society’ (Secretary General’s Report on the Prevention of Armed Conflict, UN, 2001). Based on this understanding, UNDP takes a three pronged approach to conflict prevention:

• Integrating conflict prevention into development programmes
  
• Building national processes and institutions for conflict management
  
• Building consensus through dialogue 

Learn more about UNDP programming in our Donor Proposal on Conflict Prevention and Recovery (pdf).

Watch a video about UNDP efforts in conflict prevention and security featuring Peter Batchelor, Leader of the Conflict Team.

Laying the Groundwork for Peace in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008
Listen to Valeria Izzi, Programme Specialist, Conflict Prevention, discuss her experience consulting with local stakeholders in Eastern DRC (streaming audio or download mp3)

Conflict Prevention and Gender, 2007

Ensuring the Inclusion of Women in Conflict Prevention, 2007