Conflict Sensitivity in Development, Humanitarian & Peacebuilding Practice

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.

• Introduction – Conflict sensitivity/Do No Harm (DNH) in development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding practice: reflections and emerging trends 1. Looking back to look forward 2. Necessary complexity in the Anthropocene: new approaches in socio-ecological systems thinking, Do No Harm, and fragility integration 3. Conflict sensitivity/Do No Harm (DNH) through an everyday peace lens: analysing a Rohingya–Rakhine program in Myanmar 4. Humanitarian cash assistance: risks and opportunities for local peace 5. Depoliticised humanitarianism: critiquing the effectiveness of international aid for the Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem periphery 6. Peace responsiveness: a paradigm shift to deliver on conflict sensitivity and sustaining peace 7. A conflict-sensitivity dilemma: how conflict denialism constrains spaces for conflict-sensitive actions for peacebuilding 8. Far beyond a tool: Do No Harm as spiritual (trans)formation for interfaith cooperation and action 9. The reform of freetown port: lessons from Political Economy Analysis (PEA) to make conflict sensitivity more efficient 10. Conflict sensitivity and activism: insights from Cambodia’s resource conflicts 11. Beyond box-ticking: how conflict sensitivity can help bring about a more equitable aid system 12. Building a culture of conflict sensitivity within a consortium 13. The localisation discourse in post-2021 Myanmar: implications for conflict sensitivity 14. Conflict-sensitive research: bringing research ethics into practice