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Toolset: Conflict-sensitive business practice: Guidance for extractive industries

Developer: International Alert

This publication presents a set of tools for companies engaged in oil, mining and natural gas to help ensure their operations are conflict-sensitive. The tools help companies to anticipate, monitor and assess the interaction of business operations with tensions, triggers and accelerators of conflict and enable them to design conflict prevention strategies.

The publication provides three specific tools for conflict-sensitive business practice:

- Screening Tool for early identification of conflict risk
- Macro-level Conflict Risk and Impact Assessment tool
- Project-level Conflict Risk and Impact Assessment tool

Moreover, guidance is provided on a number of specific issues related to companies and conflict, including human rights.

The tools are practical and can be adapted to suit to companies’ specific contexts; they should be adapted and further developed by companies and other relevant actors through their own practices.

Bibliographic Details

Author: International Alert

Publisher: (2005) International Alert: London [UK]

Thematic Areas

Human Rights & Business

HRIA Eight Step Approach

The Eight Step Approach is a comprehensive HRIA framework that provides a cyclic approach to policy development and project management. This toolset covers the following steps:

STEP 1: Assessment of the Actual Human Rights Situation
STEP 2: Political Contextual Analysis

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English PDF document Conflict-sensitive business practice: Guidance for extractive industries

Other Related Publications

Crossin, Corene; Banfield, Jessie (2005) Conflict and Project Finance: Exploring options for better management of conflict risk

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