This book is a practical tool for understanding and working with conflict that offers ideas, methods and techniques based on the insight and experience of practitioners and those from affected communities. An initiative of Responding to Conflict (RTC), a non-governmental organisation offering advice, cross-cultural training and long-term support to people working for peace, development rights and emergency relief, this publication prompts the reader to analyse social and political conflicts, adapt, invent and share ideas and tools, develop essential skills, identify weaknesses in current actions and devise new actions and strategies appropriate to the dynamics of the situation.