Technical Publications on Conflict Management and Mitigation

The USAID website is currently being updated. In the interim, please use the links below to access technical publications that had been available on the previous version of the USAID site.

Conflict Assessment and Analysis

• Conflict Assessment Framework, Revised (CAF 2.0) (2012) [pdf]
• Conflict Assessment Framework: Application Guide (2012) [pdf]
• Measuring Fragility: Indicators and Methods for Rating State Performance (2005) [pdf]
• Conflict Assessment Framework (2005) [pdf]

Conflict Technical Publications

• Theories and Indicators of Change (THINC) - full version, with primers (March 2013).
  Theories and Indicators of Change (THINC) - Briefing Paper (March 2013).
• Key Considerations When Supporting Peace Processes (pdf)
• Gender and Conflict Symposium Report (2013) (pdf)
• Climate Change Adaptation and Peacebuilding in Africa (pdf)
• Oil and Conflict- Technical Brief (2011)
• Follow the Water: Emerging Issues of Climate Change and Conflict in Peru (2011) [pdf]
• Climate Change and Conflict in Pastoralist Regions of Ethiopia: Mounting Challenges, Emerging Responses (2011) [pdf]
• Climate Change and Conflict: The Cattle Corridor and Karamoja (2011) [pdf]
• Climate Change, Adaptation, and Conflict: A Preliminary Review of the Issues (2009) [pdf]
• Development Assistance and Counter-Extremism: A Programming Guide (2009) [pdf]
• DCHA/CMM Gender Speaker Series (2010-2012) [pdf]
• Electoral Security Framework: Technical Guidance Handbook for Democracy and Governance Officers (DCHA/DRG)(2010) [pdf]
• Energy Security and Conflict: A Country-Level Review of the Issues (2010) [pdf]
• Guide to Economic Growth in Post-Conflict Countries (EGAT) (2009) [pdf]
• Guide to the Drivers of Violent Extremism (AFR/SD) (2009) [pdf]
• People-to-People Peacebuilding: A Program Guide (2010) [pdf]
• Statebuilding in Situations of Conflict and Fragility: Relevance for U.S. Policies and Programs (2011) [pdf]
• Systems Thinking in Conflict Assessment: Concepts and Application (2012) [pdf]
• Technical Guidance on Diaspora in Crisis Settings (2011) [pdf]
• Theories of Change and Indicator Development in Conflict Management and Mitigation (2010) [pdf]

Conflict Toolkits

• Community-Based Development in Conflict-Affected Areas [pdf]
• Forests and Conflict [pdf]
• Land and Conflict [pdf]
• Livelihoods and Conflict [pdf]
• Minerals and Conflict [pdf]
• Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding [pdf]
• Supporting Peace Processes [pdf]
• Women and Conflict [pdf]
• Youth and Conflict [pdf]