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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.