Publication

This paper discusses non-violent conflicts and disputes as a constraint to sustainable community-level natural resource management. The author discusses the role of conflict in natural resource management and provides a methodology for removing conflict as an obstacle to sustainability. He provides examples of the outputs of the methodology drawn from conflict management activities in the Lakekamu Basin Integrated Conservation and Development Project, Papua New Guinea. The article concludes with the benefits of conflict management in community-based natural resource projects in relation to building social capital and sustaining livelihood security.