1st Edition
Conflict Sensitivity in Development, Humanitarian & Peacebuilding Practice Trends and Challenges
Introduction – conflict sensitivity/Do No Harm (DNH) in development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding practice: reflections and emerging trends
Susanne Schmeidl, Anthony Ware and Claudio Alberti
1. Looking back to look forward
Mary B. Anderson
2. Necessary complexity in the Anthropocene: new approaches in socio-ecological systems thinking, Do No Harm, and fragility integration
Siad Darwish, Ruth Rhoads Allen, and Maureen Lempke
3. Conflict sensitivity/Do No Harm (DNH) through an everyday peace lens: analysing a Rohingya–Rakhine program in Myanmar
Anthony Ware
4. Humanitarian cash assistance: risks and opportunities for local peace
Kristina Tschunkert and Birte Vogel
5. Depoliticised humanitarianism: critiquing the effectiveness of international aid for the Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem periphery
Osama Risheq, Tamara Tamimi, Raghad Adwan, and Munir Nuseibah
6. Peace responsiveness: a paradigm shift to deliver on conflict sensitivity and sustaining peace
Anita Ernstorfer, Anne-Sofie Stockman and Frauke de Weijer
7. A conflict-sensitivity dilemma: how conflict denialism constrains spaces for conflict-sensitive actions for peacebuilding
Prakash Paudel, D. B. Subedi, and Keren Winterford
8. Far beyond a tool: Do No Harm as spiritual (trans)formation for interfaith cooperation and action
Johonna McCants-Turner and Michelle Garred
9. The reform of freetown port:: lessons from Political Economy Analysis (PEA) to make conflict sensitivity more efficient
Mateo Cabello and Claudio Alberti
10. Conflict sensitivity and activism: insights from Cambodia’s resource conflicts
Dustin Barter
11. Beyond box-ticking: how conflict sensitivity can help bring about a more equitable aid system
Timothy Midgley, Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy, Rahma Ahmed, and Alastair Carr
12. Building a culture of conflict sensitivity within a consortium
Mary Rose O’Brien, Hkinjawng Naw (Laser), and Khin Zar Mon
13. The localisation discourse in post-2021 Myanmar: implications for conflict sensitivity
Rebecca Haines and Cate Buchanan
14. Conflict-sensitive research: bringing research ethics into practice
Ursina Bentele and Metka Herzog
Biography
Susanne Schmeidl is an experienced peacebuilding researcher and practitioner with a focus on Afghanistan, conflict sensitivity, forced displacement, indigenous peacebuilding approaches and critical methodologies. She has over two decades of experience working in (post)- conflict settings and is currently advising various organisations on how to work with conflict sensitivity in Afghanistan.
Anthony Ware is Associate Professor in International and Community Development at Alfred Deakin Institution, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on humanitarian/ international development approaches in conflict- affected situations, with particular interest in Myanmar, the Rohingya conflict, conflict- sensitivity/ do no harm, everyday peace and community- led development.
Claudio Alberti, an associate researcher at swisspeace, holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. He specialises in adaptive peacebuilding approaches and the linkages between development, humanitarian and peacebuilding. Over the past decade, he has held progressively responsible positions in these sectors across various contexts.
