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Conflict Prevention and UNDG

Conflict Prevention and UNDG. TOT 2006 Conflict sensitive development. Violent conflict erodes development gains Development may help prevent the emergence or recurrence of violent conflict Development may inadvertently contribute to reinforce or exacerbate conflict dynamics.

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Conflict Prevention and UNDG

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  1. Conflict Prevention and UNDG TOT 2006 Conflict sensitive development

  2. Violent conflict erodes development gains Development may help prevent the emergence or recurrence of violent conflict Development may inadvertently contribute to reinforce or exacerbate conflict dynamics Development and Conflict

  3. Development and conflict (ctd) • Conflict and its management are an inextricable part of the development process; • Not about preventing conflict per se, but the emergence/recurrence of violent conflict; • Applicable to all stages of conflict – including in terms of the prevention of the recurrence of violent conflict in post-conflict situations; • E.g. 50% of countries will relapse into violence within 10 years of emerging from conflict.

  4. Conflict Prevention & UN • Need for a comprehensive approach encompassing “short-term and long-term political, diplomatic, humanitarian, human rights, developmental, institutional and other measures” to address prevention; • “Conflict prevention must have national ownership. The primary responsibility for conflict prevention rests with national Governments, with civil society playing an important role”. • Development work should be viewed through a conflict prevention lens (“untapped potential”). Long-term prevention addressing the structural causes of conflict is a key focus of this work. • Clear need for “introducing a conflict prevention element into the United Nations system’s multifaceted development programmes and activities so that they contribute to the prevention of conflict by design and not by default”. Brahimi Report (00); UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security (00); SG Report on the prevention of armed conflict (01); UNDP Executive Board Paper on CPC (01); GA Resolution on the prevention of armed conflict (03); RR Global Meeting Conclusions (03); High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (04), SG Report on Larger Freedom (05); Summit Outcome Document (05)

  5. Conflict Prevention & UNDG • Increasing prioritywithin UNDG: • Inter-Agency Framework to integrate Conflict Prevention into CCA/UNDAF (Nov. 2004) • Turin Lessons Learned Workshop in May 2005 with 13 countries represented • HLPR and UN Reform in Peacebuilding • PCNAs • 2006 Work Programme

  6. Long-term presence on the ground (before, during and after crisis); An historical perspective & in-depth understanding of contexts A long-term relationship with national actors; Highly compatible with agency mandates; RC function, Coordination of the UN system, integration with peace-keeping. International partners UNDG Added Value

  7. Conflict Prevention Strengthening mechanisms & processes, as well as the capacity of actors and institutions, for constructive conflict management. Addressing the causes of violent conflict (in particular, structural factors) through development strategy and programming.

  8. Conflict sensitive programming • A way to think differently about the work we do based on an awareness of the linkages between conflict and development; • High levels of ownership and participation; • A framework to inform decisions at the strategic and program levels and to provide integrated safeguards against unintentional harm; • An approach to systematically support the design, and implementation of development frameworks and programs, in order to ensure that the potential for violent conflict is not exacerbated, and that increasingly development actively contributes to conflict prevention and peace-building; • Conflict analysis, or a good understanding of the context in which specific development interventions are situated, is the foundation of conflict sensitive approaches.

  9. Conflict analysis: a key element to integrate a conflict prevention lens into development planning frameworks and programming Common Inter-Agency Framework for Conflict Analysis in Transition

  10. Key Characteristics • To shift the attention away from agency mandate and programmatic area and to focus on the context as the entry point for the design and implementation of responses; • To help deconstruct complex and dynamic realities; • To develop a common diagnostic (e.g. UNCT, government, local actors, donors, etc) and platform for an integrated and coherent approach.

  11. Background to the tool • CDA Pilot phase (October 2001- end of 2002): assessing how appropriate conflict analysis may be in supporting more effective development strategies and programming for UNDP Country Offices; • Initial strategic conflict assessments (Guatemala, Nepal, Nigeria, Tajikistan and Guinea-Bissau) • Testing phase (2003): CPR practice workshops in Sarajevo/Manila; workshops in New York and Geneva, with UNDP staff and Framework Team members; • Further applications of the CDA for 2004/05 at the request of UNDP country offices: Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Bougainville/PNG, West Africa, North Caucasus, Fiji, Syria, Colombia, Burundi, etc.

  12. Framework • Analysis of Conflict • Survey of Causes • Actor Analysis • Capacities for Peace Analysis • Dynamics/ Scenarios • Analysis of • Ongoing Responses • Mapping of current responses • Development and conflict: working in/on/around conflict • Development and formal peace processes • Identification of • Ways Forward • Strategic conclusions • Implications for policy, programming, and advocacy strategies

  13. Causes of Conflict ICEBERG Proximate Causes: Factors likely to contribute to a climate conducive to violent conflict or its further escalation, sometimes the manifestations of deeper issues or issues emerging as a consequence or legacy of crisis. Structural Causes: Pervasive and long standing factors that become built into the policies, structures and culture of a society and may create the preconditions for violent conflict.

  14. Actors and Capacities for Peace Actors Individuals, groups and institutions engaged in, as well as being affected by conflict. Capacities for Peace Structures, mechanisms, processes and institutions that exist in society in order to peacefully and constructively manage conflict

  15. Security Political Economic Social International Regional National Sub-national Local Matrix of Conflict Causes

  16. Actors/ Capacities for peace Stated Interest Hidden agenda Connects with/ Contradicts with Resources they have Resources they need Local Sub-national National Regional International Actor & Capacity for Peace Analysis

  17. Entry Points • Consensus building on conflict prevention within UNCT: Yemen, Burundi • NHDR: Colombia, Burundi (ongoing); HDRO Draft Guidance note on the integration of conflict prevention into NHDR • Joint Strategy Development: Nigeria; Solomon Islands; Fiji (ongoing) • Post-conflict Needs assessment: Sudan/Somalia (forthcoming); WB/UN Guidelines on post conflict needs assessment

  18. Entry Points • CCA/UNDAF: Philippines; UNDG Guidance note on the integration of conflict prevention into CCA/UNDAF • PRSP: conflict sensitized CCA as the UN contribution to the process; World Bank project “PRSP in conflict situations”. • Country Program Formulation: Burundi • Program Formulation and/or Review: Nepal, Bougainville, Indonesia. • PKO draw-down/peace consolidation in Sierra Leone

  19. Practical Challenges • Process vs. Product • Adapting and adjusting the conflict analysis framework to the contexts in which it is applied • Sensitivity of “conflict prevention” in some contexts and how to achieve buy-in for conflict analysis process in post-conflict environment where conflict is regarded as a phenomenon of the past • Ensuring strong linkages between analysis and planning /programming tools – at the design stage! Timeliness? Entry Points? • Sustained process of conflict analysis: not a one-off exercise!

  20. Practical Challenges • Data collection and gathering: how to deal with perception and bias? • Linked to wider sensitisation and capacity development efforts on conflict sensitive programming (national stakeholders) • Getting UNCT commitment and buy-in

  21. National ownership • Making strategic use of partnerships with key actors and institutions on the ground (look for champions) • Assessing whether immediate entry points for conflict prevention can be found at the local level, as compared to the national level; • Building on existing programs and initiatives (UN or others) and working with partners who have credibility and trust on the ground; • Using opportunities to expose national counterparts to other nationally-led conflict prevention programs and strategies • Using alternative concepts and language to those of conflict prevention, to develop more appropriate approaches

  22. Next Steps and Resources • Disseminate UNDG CP Framework more widely • Develop Rosters for UNCT support • Develop standard Training Module (end 2005) • Expand list-serve • UNDG website under Coordination for Transition • Ask UNDG/CPC Cluster

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