Description:
Abstract:
"This report, originally commissioned as a background paper by IDRC for a consultative meeting
addressing conflict prevention and development practice, aims to provide a critical overview of the
approaches to development being defined by donors, academic institutions, as well as NGOs and
agencies charged with the delivery of effective aid and development programmes in conflict-prone and
conflict-affected areas. Governmental and non-governmental actors alike increasingly recognise the
need for conflict-sensitive approaches to development and humanitarian assistance and are
consequently attempting to develop the theoretical underpinnings as well as the structural
prerequisites for integrating conflict-sensitive perspectives into development assistance. The paper
seeks to highlight the range of different approaches and to identify both their strengths and limitations.
It concludes by proposing some of the important policy issues which need to be addressed if conflictsensitive
development approaches are to have broader relevance and impact."
Source/publisher:
Internqtional Alert, Saferworld, International Development Research Centre
Date of Publication:
2001-10-25
Date of entry:
2012-11-27
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Language:
English