The Community Conflict Resource pack was commissioned as part of wider neighbourhood renewal and community cohesion policies.

The importance of addressing community conflict by building grassroots knowledge and skills was one of the key issues that arose from the ethnically based tensions that erupted into violence in the northern towns of Oldham, Bradford, Leeds and Burnley in 2001. The resource aims to help people find consensus or common ground when addressing community disturbances and conflict. the work draws on the lessons of the Community Facilitation Programme and aims to ensure that community regeneration projects are addressing the underlying causes of conflict and to ensure that at both community and regional level there is in place the capacity to predict, prevent, intervene and learn from conflict.