ABSTRACT
The Organization of American States acted as a guarantor of the peacebuilding process, the International Committee of the Red Cross established a special mission to monitor human rights conditions in El Salvador’s prisons, and an international non-governmental organisation provided discreet advice and technical support to the few facilitators. Effective conflict management builds first and foremost from a precise analysis and understanding of local conflict dynamics. Successful efforts to manage conflict related to business operations in fragile states often demonstrate analogous efforts to expand the circle of social support. Structured and deliberate efforts towards greater inclusion, in contrast, enable a path to less conflict-prone commercial development. Data-gathering and analysis functions performed by observatories can also underpin proactive conflict prevention and resolution interventions, which prove particularly important to conflict management practice. Prioritisation appears to enable another key success factor of conflict and violence reduction, namely the building of will and capacity for integrated approaches.
