Conflict-sensitive approaches to development, humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding: A resource pack

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Pages
121pp
Date published
13 Mar 2018
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Conflict, violence & peace, Development & humanitarian aid
Organisations
Saferworld

Over the last .decade there has been a growing realisation that humanitarian assistance sometimes feeds conflict rather than alleviates it, and that development aid sometimes exacerbates tensions. This has led to the development of tools to understand the relationship between programming and conflict. This Resource Pack seeks to document current practice, available frameworks and lessons learned. At its heart is the concept of “conflict sensitivity” – the notion of systematically taking into account both the positive and negative impact of interventions, in terms of conflict or peace dynamics, on the contexts in which they are undertaken, and, conversely, the impact of these contexts on the interventions