We empower communities to mitigate and resolve environmental and resource-based conflicts and reduce its effects on the environment and the communities.
We acknowledge that managing and resolving conflicts that are related to natural resources is now more paramount than ever before. As economic and population growth increase levels of global consumption, many countries face growing shortages of vital renewable resources such as freshwater, cropland, rangeland, forests, fisheries and other wildlife. Depletion of renewable natural resources, combined with environmental degradation and climate change/global warming, pose fundamental threats to human security. Separately or in combination with other factors, they can destabilize livelihoods, negatively affect ecosystems and undermine peace and development. There is therefore the need for programmes aimed at reducing resource-based conflicts through proactive and progressive environmental conservation and prevention measures and initiatives.