Defueling Conflict: Notes from the Field
Publisher: World Bank
Author(s): Elise Doumergue, Shaadee Ahmadnia, Tracy Hart, Phoebe Spencer, Sally Judson, and Amanda Woomer
Date: 2025
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Prevention, Cooperation, Governance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming, Renewable Resources
"Defueling Conflict: Notes from the Field" explores the operationalization of conflict sensitivity and environmental peacebuilding, synthesizing tools and lessons learned from the World Bank's engagement in this field. It builds directly on the 2022 World Bank report "Defueling Conflict: Environment and Natural Resource Management as a Pathway to Peace," which clarified the linkages between the environment, FCV risks, and peacebuilding opportunities. While the 2022 report provided the “why,” this new publication focuses on the “how,” demonstrating practical applications across key project and strategic entry points: upstream analytics that inform downstream operations; project design (contextual risks analysis, theories of change); safeguards; Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning; and institutional capacity building. The report aims to: provide practical tools to integrate FCV and NRM considerations across the program cycle; demonstrate innovative methods to measure and monitor outcomes, and to build the evidence base; and serve as a resource for institutions looking to build environmental peacebuilding and conflict sensitivity capacities.