Resumen

Given the linkages between natural resources and social conflicts,evidence increasingly shows that successful natural resource man-agement requires conflict mitigation and prevention. However, theremay be a gap in practice between knowing what processes andtools need to be used to manage conservation conflicts and how toactually implement them. We present learning from a practice-basedcase study of conflict management in the Amarakaeri CommunalReserve in the Peruvian Amazon that aimed to develop naturalresource governance institutions and build stakeholder capacity,including of indigenous groups, to navigate existing conflict reso-lution mechanisms. Through applying good practices in conservationconflict management and collaborative governance, we generatedimportant lessons on the practical considerations involved in collab-orative conservation. These lessons, while specific to our case, couldbe applied to a variety of protected areas facing complex social-ecological systems dynamics and wicked problems.