This book suggests strategies, principles and tools to reduce development-induced disputes and inter-personal conflict as obstacles to achieving sustainable rural livelihoods. Consensual win-win negotiation is promoted as the preferred strategy, but set firmly within the context of the alternatives.

Michael Warner has worked as a Research Fellow with the Overseas Development Institute, developing concensus-building tools and managing a programme of natural resource-based conflect resolution in Papua New Guinea and the Fiji Islands. He is currently co-ordinator of the secretariat for the Natural Resouces Cluster of Business Partners for Development.