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Taking into account the lessons learned from the field, it has been decided to reorient the earlier training material towards:

1. integration of conflict management into the broad framework of collaborative natural resource management and the concept of sustainable rural livelihoods; conflict management is embedded in a number of processes that help establish and maintain mutually agreeable principles and practices for managing natural resources;

2. emphasis on stakeholders' choice in conflict management options, but a clear focus on a practical step-by-step description of how to establish and mediate a process of consensual negotiations to manage conflict and build collaboration among multistakeholder groups;

3. acknowledgment of the cultural and social dimension[...]

Taking into account the lessons learned from the field, it has been decided to reorient the earlier training material towards:

1. integration of conflict management into the broad framework of collaborative natural resource management and the concept of sustainable rural livelihoods; conflict management is embedded in a number of processes that help establish and maintain mutually agreeable principles and practices for managing natural resources;

2. emphasis on stakeholders' choice in conflict management options, but a clear focus on a practical step-by-step description of how to establish and mediate a process of consensual negotiations to manage conflict and build collaboration among multistakeholder groups;

3. acknowledgment of the cultural and social dimensions of different negotiation and mediation styles to allow for flexible, situation-specific adaptation of the negotiation process for worldwide application.