Developing Conflict-Sensitive Management Strategies in Public-Private Conservation Concessions in the Amazon

The Los Amigos Conservation Concession in the Peruvian Amazon faced increasing social conflicts driven by gold prices, road construction, and resource exploration. To move from a reactive to a proactive approach, ACCA partnered with Columbia University in 2012 to implement a conflict-sensitive conservation (CSC) initiative. This process involved conflict analysis workshops with managers from various protected areas and extensive field engagement with local indigenous and immigrant communities to ground-truth conflict dynamics. The resulting data was used to conflict-sensitize the 2013–2018 management plan, establishing new channels for communication and coordination between conservation managers and stakeholders.

• The Los Amigos Conservation Concession, managed by ACCA, protects 360,000 acres of old-growth forest in the Tropical Andes biodiversity Hotspot, providing sanctuary for 12 globally threatened species such as jaguars and giant otters.
• Social conflicts around the borders of the concession have increased due to rising gold prices, expanded road construction, and policies promoting resource exploration, leading to confrontations over access to tropical hardwoods and gold reserves.
• Because ACCA is a non-governmental organization, it faced constraints in enforcement and monitoring, which historically forced the organization to respond to conflicts reactively as individual incidents occurred.
• The 2012 CSC initiative utilized a multi-tiered process—including workshops with managers from areas like Manu National Park and field interviews with indigenous and civic groups—to synthesize conflict data and integrate mitigation strategies into the 2013–2018 management plan.

APA

International Institute for Sustainable Development (n.d.). Developing Conflict-Sensitive Management Strategies in Public-Private Conservation Concessions in the Amazon. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/csc-stories-peru.pdf

Chicago

International Institute for Sustainable Development. Developing Conflict-Sensitive Management Strategies in Public-Private Conservation Concessions in the Amazon. n.d. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/csc-stories-peru.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{internationalinstituteforsustainabledevelopmentnddeveloping, author = {{International Institute for Sustainable Development}}, title = {{Developing Conflict-Sensitive Management Strategies in Public-Private Conservation Concessions in the Amazon}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/csc-stories-peru.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }