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This report will assess the community development and conflict literature and evaluate the impact of USAID community development (CD) projects on conflict prevention, resolution, and mitigation through local democratic development. The assessment will examine the effects of CD projects on conflict prevention, conflict mitigation, and the development of democracy for three USAID programs in the Europe and Eurasia (E&E) region: the Central Asian Republics (CAR) or Georgia Macedonia, and Serbia (post conflict). These three cases have been chosen for their pre-conflict, in-conflict, and post-conflict countries. The final report will describe and analyze key CD factors that affect the risks of conflict and development of democracy, summarizing lessons learned about how, when and under what conditions CD projects are most likely to contribute to conflict prevention, resolution, and mitigation and best support the development of democratic institutions and societies. In so doing, the assessment will contribute to the development of the E&E Bureau’s conflict prevention strategy and to the design and modification of CD projects in the field.