What is the Value-Added of this Tool?

• Helps companies establish clear priorities to better manage the risks of conflict that are either independent from or linked to their operations.

• Promotes a conflict sensitive approach and offers a pathway to develop multi-stakeholder engagement strategies (including both internal processes and external actors) that ensure a proactive, rather than reactive, risk management stance.

• Reduces the direct and indirect costs that conflict imposes on a company, including: the increased cost of protecting staff and property, potential damage to the company’s reputation, higher payments to security firms, the weakening of social capital, and resource degradation.

• Favours a conflict prevention mindset across company functions through greater social awareness. Integrating corporate culture as suggested in the present tool has not been done in existing conflict analysis tools and produces a more accurate and complete picture.

• Supports companies in meeting their due diligence obligations related to security and human rights and reinforces implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.

• Encourages different teams to work together in analyzing conflict (e.g. security function, human resource department, procurement department, community and social performance function, operations, etc.).

• Guides companies and professionals in their efforts to anticipate, prevent, and manage conflict, through a combination of desk-based and site level data collection, supported by questionnaires.