International Alert’s research suggests that government, development partners, companies and other key stakeholders...have to date placed limited emphasis on assessing and mitigating specifically the conflict risks that might be associated with Uganda’s oil finds at different levels. This publication aims to prompt greater awareness of these very real and demonstrable risks...Despite the advances being made by companies...the overwhelming picture presented by the survey is of inadequate provision ofinformation to communities by companies...as well as very limited initiatives by companies to set up dialogue with communities in order to better understand the local context and community views. [refers to Tullow Oil, Heritage Oil, Dominion Petroleum, Tower Resources, Global Petroleum, Sac Oil, PetroSA]