Peacebuilding Toolbox
These conflict resolution resources have been created by leading international organizations. We hope you will use them to launch your own initiatives.
Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation
German-based Berghof Conflict Research has produced a high-quality handbook for practitioners and scholars, which provides an overview of the currently available approaches, methods, techniques and theories of conflict transformation.
Conflict Resolution Trainer's Manual: 12 Skills
Conflict Resolution Network has produced an extensive conflict resolution training manual which is usefully divided into issue areas, and can be freely accessed from the website.
Sustained Dialogue Campus Network provides some resources for students wishing to undertake peacebuilding on campus. Particularly useful is "Diving In: A Handbook for Improving Race Relations on College Campuses through the Process of Sustained Dialogue".
The United States Institute of Peace and the UN Mediation Support Unit have created the Peacemaker’s Toolkit, a collection of manuals focusing on a range of peacebuilding issues.
Swiss Peace provides a large collection of scholarly and practitioner-focused papers on peacebuilding in a variety of contexts.
The Peace Research Institute of Oslo is another conflict resolution think tank, with numerous academic and practical research resources available online.